Les 5 Dystopia assignment

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Begin with the End in Mind

This will be a NO creative group assignment. But there will be a comparative essay. Your Group Notes and your collaboration will be a formative grade. What is important is that you use your knowledge and opinions on Utopias and Dystopias and show that you have read, seen and thought about the themes in the different texts.

Success criteria Formative

Group Work

Individual Assignments

Having an opinion on the themes in your novel

Annotating your book when you see something interesting

Thinking about SCASI 

Researching and understanding secondary sources. 

Tips:

• Keep a word list in  your notebook of words and phrases you come across in the novel, articles, reader etc
• Annotate your novels
• Make notes using SCASI

• Discuss your ideas with your peers and make notes on this as well. Make sure you answer the questions

SCASI

Setting

Characters

Action

Style

Ideas

Assessment

1. Reading Circle Assignment (formative)

2. Socratice Seminar (Formative)

3. Comparative Essay 

Tentative Timing 2025

Read the books and finish the weekly assignments at home and finish by March 24th

 March 31 - week of Socratic Seminars

NB – The winter break and test week are during

this project. Make sure you plan. In the week before the

Test week we will work on test practice in class.

If you fail to plan - you plan to fail 

Final Comparative Essay Week of April 7 

List in order of choice which THREE novels you would like. Number them.