Genre, Dystopia
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Tiffany Solod
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Directions: Watch the video to review the term "Genre."
Make sure you take notes in your INB so that you remember what genre is and how it works.
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Multiple Choice
Let's See What you learned: What are the two main categories of literature?
Fiction and Nonfiction
Genre and Subgenre
Drama and Poetry
Short story and Novel
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Multiple Choice
What is informational writing?
Persuades us to buy something.
Tells us how to create something.
Gives us a play by play of what happened in a story.
Provides facts about a variety of topics.
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Multiple Choice
What is a biography/autobiography?
book about pets
book about a distant planet
book about a person's life
book about a significant event
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Multiple Choice
What kind of fiction is similar to real life?
Historical Fiction
Realistic fiction
Science fiction
Fantasy
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Explain your ideal or "perfect" world. Be sure to explain in detail why it is perfect.
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Now that you have the definition of Utopia, it is time to learn about its direct opposite, Dystopia.
This video will go over Utopia as well.
Take good notes.
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Multiple Choice
Who wrote a book about Utopia?
Sir Thomas Mallory
Sir William Shakespeare
Sir Thomas More
King Henry VIII
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Multiple Choice
What is one of the earliest dystopian novels/stories?
A Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Stand by Stephen King
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What did Swift's novel expose?
A world where trends in contemporary society are taken to extremes to expose their flaws.
A world where all are equal and flaws are seen as perfection.
A world where the flawed are disregarded and the perfect are held up.
A world where no one is flawed.
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Multiple Choice
What kind of technology imprisoned people instead of freeing them when dystopian literature came about?
Internet
Weaponry
Industrial
Books
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Multiple Choice
Who wrote "We" ?
Yevin Zamgotin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yuri Ivanovich
Nikolaus Romanovich
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Multiple Choice
What book inspired George Orwell?
Hunger Games
Maze Runner
The Stand
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Multiple Choice
What are two of Well's novels?
Animal Farm & 1984
Animals & 1999
The Animal Farm & 2001
1984 and Robot Lives
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List 3 modern Utopia tales listed in the video
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Why bother with all this pessimism?
Because at their heart, dystopias are cautionary tales, not about any particular government or technology, but that humanity can be easily molded into someone's ideal shape.
Because at their heart, dystopias are cautionary tales to be wary of anyone who thinks differently from you
Because at their heart, dystopias are just fiction and not real.
Because at their heart, dystopias are cautionary tales about the dangers of robots.
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