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
Appendix C. List of Complex Concepts and Related Words for the Newspeak Activity Appendix D. Supplementary Texts: Literature and Film Resources LITERATURE CLASSICAL/CANONICAL WORKS YOUNG ADULT WORKS Title Author Title Author A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Borne Jeff VanderMeer A Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Feed M.T. Anderson All Summer in a Day Ray Bradury How I Live Now Meg Rosoff Brave New World Aldous Huxley Ready Player One Ernest Cline Children of Men P.D. James Shade’s Children Garth Nix Cloud Atlas excerpts (specifically “An Orison of Sonmi-451” and “Sloosha’s Crossin’”) David Mitchell The Across the Universe Series Beth Revis Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury The Book of Joan Lidia Yuknavitch HaDerech L’Ein Harod Amos Kenan The Brave New Girl series Rachel Vincent It Can’t Happen Here Sinclair Lewis The Divergent series Veronica Roth Limes inferior Janusz Zajdel The Ender Quintet Orson Scott Card Moscow 2042 Vladimir Voinovich The Giver Quintet Lois Lowry Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro The Hunger Games series Suzanne Collins
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood The Hungry Plague series M.R. Carey The Lord of the Flies William Golding The Imperial Radch series Ann Leckie The Lottery Shirley Jackson The Maze Runner series James Dashner The Machine Stops E.M. Forster The 100 series Kass Morgan The Road Cormac McCarthy White Fox Jane Yolen The Third Yishai Sarid Z for Zachariah Robert C. O’Brien We Yevgeny Zamyatin OTHER MEDIA FILM TELEVISION 1984 3% 12 Monkeys Battlestar Galactica A Clockwork Orange Black Mirror A.I. Doctor Who Akira Dollhouse Blade Runner Falling Skies Children of Men Firefly Die Welle Humans District 9 Orphan Black Gattaca Samurai Jack Ghost in the Shell The 100 Idiocracy The Handmaid’s Tale Logan’s Run The Last Man on Earth Mad Max The Last Ship Serenity The Man in the High Castle Snow Piercer The Stand Terminator The Twilight Zone The Fifth Element The Walking Dead WALL-E Westworld You, Me, and the Apocalypse