Genre, Dystopia

Genre

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Dystopia

Lesson

​Genre Review

​Directions: Watch the video to review the term "Genre."

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​Make sure you take notes in your INB so that you remember what genre is and how it works.

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

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.

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

Multiple Choice

What kind of fiction is similar to real life?

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic fiction

• Science fiction

• Fantasy

Open Ended

Explain your ideal or "perfect" world. Be sure to explain in detail why it is perfect.

​Dystopia

​Now that you have the definition of Utopia, it is time to learn about its direct opposite, Dystopia.

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​This video will go over Utopia as well.

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​Take good notes.

Multiple Choice

Who wrote a book about Utopia?

• Sir Thomas Mallory

• Sir William Shakespeare

• Sir Thomas More

• King Henry VIII

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

Multiple Choice

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.

Multiple Choice

What kind of technology imprisoned people instead of freeing them when dystopian literature came about?

• Internet

• Weaponry

• Industrial

• Books

Multiple Choice

Who wrote "We" ?

• Yevin Zamgotin

• Yevgeny Zamyatin

• Yuri Ivanovich

• Nikolaus Romanovich

Multiple Choice

What book inspired George Orwell?

• Hunger Games

• Maze Runner

• The Stand

• We

Multiple Choice

What are two of Well's novels?

• Animal Farm & 1984

• Animals & 1999

• The Animal Farm & 2001

• 1984 and Robot Lives

Open Ended

List 3 modern Utopia tales listed in the video

Multiple Choice

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.