Header Image: New Harmony, a utopian attempt; depicted as proposed by Robert Owen
Summary
Each student is to design an ideal city of his/her own and write a composition, using the computer writing program My Access, to describe and explain it.
First, students are divided into groups to explore information at library stations about alternative societies . Students are to discuss these societies and then decide individually if a society is a utopia or dystopia in his/her mind.
Then, as a class, students are to read The Giver, a book about a supposedly Utopian society which has become dystopian to the protagonist.
TIPC Ratings
Developing – students had to evaluate the utopian or dystopian aspects of the communities they researched.
The lesson did not focus on this category.
Approaching – Discussions of the society in the book and societies at large required critical thinking and problem solving in order for students to create their perfect cities.
The lesson did not focus on this category.
Student Artifact
