Utopia?
Dystopia!
How is writing about the future revealing our current fears?
Use an image
Use an image
Imagine
A perfect world
- Rights
- Government
- Places
- relationships
- etc...
A broken world
- Rights
- Government
- Places
- relationships
- etc...
Watch the pictures
Learn more about the context
Big brother is watching you
1984
What do you know about 1984 now?
- Author?
- Context?
- Characters?
- Settings?
- Plot?
Reading the first excerpt
Present the document (type > title > author > date)
1st
Answer the WH questions (who, where, when, what)
2nd
What shocks you? What seems important to you? What do you like? What do you dislike?
3rd
Draw your portrait of Big Brother
- Be ready to present it
- Vote for the best poster
- Justify your choice
Look deeper into the text
Political system
(how does it work, type, slogan…)
Winston
(name, description, feelings…)
The atmosphere
(place, smell, noises…)
Setting
let's recap the rules in 1984
what "orwellian" really means a sum up
Prepare an entry on your journal
The government evoked in 1984 has now come to an end. You are Winston and you are for once free to tell what you've been through and experienced when living in such a dystopia. Highlight your feelings!
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
A link with today
IT IS easy to make fun of the way Donald Trump uses the English language. His tweets tend to follow the same structure: two brief statements, then a single emotive word or phrase and an exclamation mark. (On June 12th, after the Orlando shootings: “We must be smart!”) He invents playground nicknames for his opponents (Little Marco, Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary). His vocabulary is earthy: “big-league”, to describe how he would do things, or “schlonged”, for someone beaten badly. During the primary campaign, his swearing was so criticised that he promised to stop (and actually did). How did this man become the presidential nominee of the party of Abraham Lincoln? He must be doing something right: after all, language is virtually all a politician has to wield influence with (handshakes and hugs aside). Something about the way he talks and writes swept more experienced politicians aside.
Write the synopsis for a new dystopia
100%
Take into account:
- the texts we studied
- the personal documents
- the current events
Your final project
Some vocabulary
- Pessimistic
- Threaten (verb) / a threat (noun)
- Warn (verb) / a warning (noun)
- A dictator / a dictatorship
- Surveillance
- Watch (someone)
- Propaganda
- Oppressive
- Control
- Deprive someone of something
- Prevent someone from V + -ing
THANKS!
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Utopia?
Dystopia!
How is writing about the future revealing our current fears?
Use an image
Use an image
Imagine
A perfect world
A broken world
Watch the pictures
Learn more about the context
Big brother is watching you
1984
What do you know about 1984 now?
Reading the first excerpt
Present the document (type > title > author > date)
1st
Answer the WH questions (who, where, when, what)
2nd
What shocks you? What seems important to you? What do you like? What do you dislike?
3rd
Draw your portrait of Big Brother
Look deeper into the text
Political system (how does it work, type, slogan…)
Winston (name, description, feelings…)
The atmosphere (place, smell, noises…)
Setting
let's recap the rules in 1984
what "orwellian" really means a sum up
Prepare an entry on your journal
The government evoked in 1984 has now come to an end. You are Winston and you are for once free to tell what you've been through and experienced when living in such a dystopia. Highlight your feelings!
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
A link with today
IT IS easy to make fun of the way Donald Trump uses the English language. His tweets tend to follow the same structure: two brief statements, then a single emotive word or phrase and an exclamation mark. (On June 12th, after the Orlando shootings: “We must be smart!”) He invents playground nicknames for his opponents (Little Marco, Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary). His vocabulary is earthy: “big-league”, to describe how he would do things, or “schlonged”, for someone beaten badly. During the primary campaign, his swearing was so criticised that he promised to stop (and actually did). How did this man become the presidential nominee of the party of Abraham Lincoln? He must be doing something right: after all, language is virtually all a politician has to wield influence with (handshakes and hugs aside). Something about the way he talks and writes swept more experienced politicians aside.
Write the synopsis for a new dystopia
100%
Take into account:
Your final project
Some vocabulary
THANKS!