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Making Connections Book 2: Dystopia

Creative ideas and activities for exploring the links beyond a text

Structured around the rich and thought-provoking theme, dystopia, this book begins with a particular text before it explores possible subthemes and texts for comparison. Information sheets draw together the rich range of creative, insightful ideas presented and worksheets help students to consolidate the information and practise their connection-making skills.

Ages: 12-15 | Pages: 52 | Code: 5643 | ISBN: 9781927190012

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Yvette Krohn

Yvette Krohn has taught English for the past 18 years, first in South Africa and later in New Zealand, where her main role has been teaching high-level thinking courses, including gifted and talented education, extension and scholarship classes. She has been a faculty head of languages and an assistant principal, as well as a lecturer of communications and learning styles at Lincoln University. Passionate about thinking skills, Yvette has a particular interest in incorporating philosophy, psychology and social theory into the English curriculum, primarily through the medium of film.

Contents

Introduction4
How do students make connections?4
How is this book structured?4
Orientation to the unit5
The idea of utopia9
What is utopia?9
Utopia as a starting point for dystopia12
Exploring further with other texts16
Looking worldwide18
The idea of control22
What is control?22
Government control23
Social control27
Mass media as a form of control28
Exploring further with other texts33
The idea of technology36
Technology in our own lives36
What is surveillance?36
What is the Panopticon?39
Do any panopticons exist in modern society?39
Exploring further with other texts42
The idea of the hero45
Who is a hero?45
Heroes through the ages45
Exploring further with other texts50
Looking worldwide50

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