V5 P1 W4 Utopia

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
1 / 12
volgende
Slide 1: Tekstslide
EngelsMiddelbare schoolvwoLeerjaar 5

In deze les zitten 12 slides, met tekstslides en 1 video.

Onderdelen in deze les

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

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

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.

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

learning goals
I know what a utopia is.

I know the basic story of Utopia. 

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Utopia

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

Slide 5 - Video

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

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

  • .....
  • .....
  • Eutopia
  • Topos = place
  • Eu = good
  • “the perfect society” →
  • ....
  • ....
  • Outopia
  • Topos = place
  • Ou = not
  • “does not exist”/“nowhere”
A Meaningful pun

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

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.

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Go to Teams and open the Alquin renaissance pdf in lesmateriaal

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

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

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

Read Their silver and gold
  • Utopians attach little value to precious metals, why?

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

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

Homework
Which aspects of society is More criticising in Utopia?

Slide 12 - Tekstslide