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Journey through time to explore some futuristic extracts whilst developng creative and narrative writing!

Explore:
Government control
Environmental destruction
Technology and technological control
Survival
Loss of individualism

A scheme of work comprising of 23 lessons, aimed at KS3, made for year 7 but would work for 8 or 9 and adapted for KS4. It introduces the Dystopian genre with a look at its history, exploring various extracts. Each lesson is 70 minutes in length. WAGOLL exemplar answers provided.

Booklet: 28 pages of booklet to be printed and given to students. The booklet has a SPAG starter for each lesson, linked to the Dystopian topic. There are copies of each text used in extract form and tasks to do such as cmpleting the table/ Frayer model/ story mountain. There is also a full knowledge orgainser with key terminology, context and facts at the back.

Reading: There are reading tasks, exploring Utopia, The Time Machine, Lord of the Flies, 1984, The Hunger Games, Klara and The Machine, Oryx and Crake, There are inference and analysis tasks. PEI and PEA. Strong women and feminism in dystopia,

Writing: synonym and vocabulary improvement, ISPACED openers, SOAP AIMS devices, writing in an author’s style, creating Overviews and Zooms in descriptive writing, narrative structures, plot development. Review writing.

Oracy: discussions, debates, talk trios, presentations, conversation starters, building a vocal repertoire, speeches, instigate-probe-challenge, Speaking and Listening, role-play, freeze-frames.

Assessment: Two Formative assessments- one Reading an extract of The Handmaid’s Tale and analysing it. One Writing assessment- using an image as stimuli for a description. They have markscheme/ success criteria on them for marking, suitable for Peer/Self or teacher assessment and Learner Responses/ improvements.