V5 P1 W4 Utopia

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Basic rules

• We do our work when we should
• We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
• Our phone is in our "zakkie" on the corner of our table
• We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class

expectations during literature hours

• you read the literature before the deadlines
• you participate during the discussions
• you take notes during the lessons

lessons will be more lecture style, so you are also expected to be silent for longer.

learning goals

I know what a utopia is.

I know the basic story of Utopia. 

Utopia

Thomas More’s “Utopia”

• Lawyer, sheriff, statesman
  
• Friend of Erasmus
  
• 1516 publishes Utopia
  
• A story about travel to an ideal society
  
• Not the first but the definition of the genre
  
• A commentary on society
  

• .....
• .....
• Eutopia
  
• Topos = place
  
• Eu = good
  
• “the perfect society” →

• ....
• ....
  
• Outopia
  
• Topos = place
  
• Ou = not
  
• “does not exist”/“nowhere”
  

A Meaningful pun

Recognizable

A utopia cannot be completely different from our society, it must resemble it, and appear to be a progression from or alternative version of our current society.

Go to Teams and open the Alquin renaissance pdf in lesmateriaal

Read the geography of Utopia

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the system More describes here?

Read Their silver and gold

• Utopians attach little value to precious metals, why?

• Why should iron be worth more than gold and silver?

Homework

Which aspects of society is More criticising in Utopia?