Mix and Match your Dystopia

🎙️ Episode 7 - Mix & Match Your Dystopia

✨ What you’ll hear inside:

In today's episode (our final episode of Season 1!), we walk you through navigating engagement strategies for teaching a dystopian text in this world that students recognize as dystopian in many ways. We also discuss our thoughts and fave practices for Socratic seminars and having complex conversations with our students.

Seminar Student Goal Options:

• Speak 3 times
• Speak only twice (if you’ve previously spoken a lot in other class discussions)
• Add to someone’s comments
• Invite someone to speak
• Make a text-to-world connection
• Make a text-to-self connection
• Make a text-to-text connection
• Regroup the class when we get off topic
• Ask a new question
• Validate classmates’ comments
• Challenge classmates’ comments respectfully

Rapid Fire Recs -

• Classics:
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Rad Bradbury
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Anthem by Ayn Rand 
• Contemporary:
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
  • Unwind by Neal Shusterman
  • All Better Now by Neal Shusterman 
  • Maze Runner by James Dashner
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • Legend by Marie Lu
  • Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
  • Scythe by Neal Shusterman 
  • The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
  • The Selection Series by Kiera Cass
  • Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

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