The Giver - intro

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome! 

Today's programme: 

1. Dystopia

2. The Giver 

Period 3

1. Reading: The Giver

2. Grammar test 

3. Writing test 

Goals: 

- Understand what dystopian literature is and why people read it

What would it take to make your world perfect?

What would you be willing to give up to have your perfect world?

Decide:

Do I agree or disagree with the statement on the screen?

An ideal community would not have any hunger or starvation.

1. Agree!
2. Disagree!

An ideal community would not have any unemployment.

1. Agree!
2. Disagree!

All children should have equal possessions and privileges at a certain age, regardless of the status of their families.

1. Agree!
2. Disagree!

Overpopulation is such a problem that families should not be allowed to have more than two children.

1. Agree!
2. Disagree!

Life would be better and easier if we did not carry bad memories in our heads.

1. Agree!
2. Disagree!

One’s job or occupation in life should be a careful match to one’s interests, talents, and skills.

1. Agree!
2. Disagree!

Utopia and dystopia 

What is utopia?

What is dystopia?

What is dystopia?

A community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. It is the opposite of Utopia.

• Government control
• Environmental destruction 
• Technological contol
• Loss of individualism 

Examples:

The Hunger Games                                            The Handmaid's Tale 

Divergent

I am legend 

Why dystopian literature?

Why dystopian literature?

1. To educate and warn about the dangers of today's society/politics 

2. Helps us examine real fears 

3. Can help us think about all these scenarios withous actually having to live through them

-> Dystopian text takes something that already exists in our society and intensifies its effect or power. 

Assignment

Write a short story of about 200 words about one of the following topics:

• In the mountains, a traveler finds a survivalist school run by a doomsday prepper who doesn’t know the world has ended.
• After the government collapsed, a group of people decided to instate a child as its leader, believing they would make more morally pure decisions. How does that go?
• No one’s been outside the city walls in several hundred years. A girl sneaks out.
• Write about a world where people spend some or all of their time in an alternate reality simulator.
• Write about a world in which children are not allowed to say a single word until they turn eighteen.
• In this world, a government requires citizens to be at work literally every waking hour. They are given 8 hours to sleep. One day, a citizen doesn’t clock in.

Hand in your stories on Teams before Wednesday