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What is Dystopian Literature?Merriam Webster defines dystopia as an "imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives" (www.m-w.com). Dystopian Literature often deals with people living in societies that are under extreme government control or the converse: anarchy.
In Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Literature, the characters act within a world that has been destroyed by an apocalyptic event. This event can be in the distant past (e.g., The Hunger Games) or recent as in The Road or I Am Legend and has altered the environment drastically. Typically, the post-apocalyptic sub-genre of dystopian literature is so closely aligned with the more traditional dystopian world that they are often juxtaposed. Please view the Prezi designed by Lara Mallard for more information. |
Dystopian and Utopian Literature featuring Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Essential Questions:
How do a father and son survive in a world that no longer exists?
How does one avoid becoming evil when evil is all that is left?
Where do you find hope when all hope is lost?
The Road Reading SchedulePart One: pages 1-69
Part Two: pages 70-144 Part Three: pages 145-221 Part Four: pages 222- end Reading Schedule 2017-2018 Part One: pages 1-102 by Fri 1/19 Part Two: pages 103-192 by 1/26 Part Three: pages 193-287 by 2/2 Paired ReadingsPoems:
Eliot - "The Wasteland" Macleish- "The End of the World" Dickinson- ""Safe in their alabaster chambers" Byron- "Darkness" Frost- "Acquianted with the Night" Jarrell- "The State" Auden- "September 1, 1939" Short Stories: Walter Van Tiburg Clark- "The Portable Phonograph" Benet- "By the Waters of Babylon" Novels: Huxley- Brave New World Orwell- 1984 Atwood- Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale Agenda
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The Road Media Resources
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| ckrwilliams-the_road_dialectical_journal_entries.pdf |
| ckrwilliams-the_road_dialectical_journal_bookmark.pdf |
| radiolab_morality_challenge_essay.pdf |
Summative Assessment
"Get an Early Start" Directions:
Students who wish to get an early start on the Summative Assessment should read the Boeree Article (posted below), review notes from the powerpoint on Maslow's Hierarchy, and review the Summative Assessment Guidelines (posted below and you have a copy distributed at the beginning of the quarter). Your goal is to find specific plot points from The Road and place them on Maslow's Hierarchy. You are discussing the journey the father and the son make towards the coast AND up and down Maslow's Hierarchy. Your paper will answer your belief as to whether the father and/or the son ever reach Self-Actualization.
| cg_boeree-abraham_maslow-personality_theories-adaptation.pdf |
| ck_williams-the_road-maslow_summative_assessment_overview2013-14.pdf |
| mccarthy-the_road-dj_topics_and_schedule.pdf |
| poetry_explication_assignment.pdf |
| tp-castt.pdf |
| book_jacket_project_0809.doc |