own lives and societies. It will get them thinking about how literature relates to the real world, and could help them to start developing a more global worldview. This is also a great question to practice working facts and evidence into the as they must give specific students’ writing, evidence as to why they believe the future will be a utopian or a dystopian world. Why are we so fascinated by dystopian literature? Why do we prefer to read or watch a story like or rather than something uplifting District 9 The Hunger Games like The Jetsons? This question will hep students to think about why authors write what they write, and why consumers read the media that these writers produce. It is important in literature not only to read the pieces assigned, but to understand the context under which they were written. Think about the society of Oceania in Are there any 1984. George Orwell’s similarities to our own society? This prompt combines prompts 1 and 2 in that it guides students to make connections between the material learned in class with their pre-existing knowledge of the world around them. Responses to the more Filipinos write dystopian Quora question, “Why don’t (See Appendix B). fiction?” The students will be shown the images in Appendix B and must respond to them. These images show the answers to the Quora.com question “Why more Filipinos write dystopian The responses state that in don’t fiction?”
own lives and societies. It will get them thinking about how literature relates to the real world, and could help them to start developing a more global worldview. This is also a great question to practice working facts and evidence into the students’ writing, as they must give specific evidence as to why they believe the future will be a utopian or a dystopian world. Why are we so fascinated by dystopian literature? Why do we prefer to read or watch a story like District 9 or The Hunger Games rather than something uplifting like The Jetsons? This question will hep students to think about why authors write what they write, and why consumers read the media that these writers produce. It is important in literature not only to read the pieces assigned, but to understand the context under which they were written. Think about the society of Oceania in George Orwell’s 1984. Are there any similarities to our own society? This prompt combines prompts 1 and 2 in that it guides students to make connections between the material learned in class with their pre-existing knowledge of the world around them. Responses to the Quora question, “Why don’t more Filipinos write dystopian fiction?” (See Appendix B). The students will be shown the images in Appendix B and must respond to them. These images show the answers to the Quora.com question “Why don’t more Filipinos write dystopian fiction?” The responses state that in