Well...it's going. I was hoping to have progressed a little more. I have about a million ideas running through my head, and I can't lie, they're good. I'm just having a hard time honing in on them and fitting them in with the texts I want to use. I'm trying to map out my unit, but I'm hitting some dead ends. I love all of the texts and the film I chose, now I need to hardcore start planning what activities or something to do with them. What skills and assessments will I be working with? I don't know just yet.
My overall theme is Dystopian and Utopian Societies: Exploring the "Perfect" World. I decided that my primary text would be The Hunger Games, and supplement it with close readings of Divergent. Essentially with all of the texts I've chosen we will be exploring different interpretations of utopias and dystopias; and discussing how perspective affects reality, and several other things.
The activities that Sarah helped me come up with included Movie "Lit" Circles (with roles such as set designer, screenwriter, etc.) and creating a soundtrack for a book.
As far as the final project/assessment goes...it keeps changing. At first I wanted students to create their own dystopia or utopia, pulling characteristics from the texts we will have studied. Perhaps a paper might also make sense here. Clearly I have a lot of work to do in the coming weeks. I felt like I had it all figured out, and now that I'm trying to put it all together I feel like I'm still stuck at the drawing board.
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