We are working our way toward our DYSTOPIAN UNIT.
Today you will continue to write your short piece based on the prompt:
Imagine you woke up one day to find everyone around you - your family, your neighbors - have disappeared. Imagine what that looks like and feels like. Would you notice right away? Would you be happy, afraid, confused - maybe all three during your story telling. USE YOUR IMAGINATION and USE ALL FOUR SENTENCE TYPES to tell your story - you are working on SENTENCE FLUENCY to make your writing varied and interesting to read.
Today, you must also review your writing with the goal of finding opportunities to swap-out or add words from our Dystopian word wall.
Dystopia
1.
a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression,disease, and overcrowding.
Utopia
1.
― Thomas More, Utopia
an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) asenjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
“but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity, and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife?”
― Thomas More, Utopia
2.
(usually lowercase) an ideal place or state.
3.
(usually lowercase) any visionary system of political or socialperfection.
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