ToczekLessonPlan3


 * __Lesson 3: Real Life Utopias (50 minutes)__**
 * Rationale:** This lesson will provide students with real-life examples of utopias throughout history. By having students research real-life attempts at utopian societies, students will begin to understand the relevance of the concept building off of the Venn Diagram activites.
 * Objectives:**


 * Motivational Device:** Have even amount of slips of paper with each of the 5 utopian communities that students will be researching in today’s class. If there are 25 students, there will be 5 slips of paper with the same community on. As students enter classroom, they will randomly draw a sip of paper out of a bucket to determine their group.

//-Group assignment//
 * Materials:**
 * -**//The Giver//
 * -**Computer lab or portable laptops

-Real Utopias Worksheets


 * Activities:**
 * -**Hand out worksheets and provide instructions for today’s activity (10 minutes)


 * -**Students will be put into groups to research one of the historical experiments with utopian ideals: Oneida, Rappites, Shakers, Amana, Brook Farm. Students will be given a worksheet with questions to analyze their given utopia community to analyze what the utopia was rooted in, where and when it took place, why it is no longer in existence, and what faults can you see in the utopia? Any other interesting facts you may have found about the community. (40 minutes)

-Remind students to remember the characteristics that they included on their Venn Diagrams and to look for those characteristics within their utopia that they will research.

-Websites for reference: [] []

-Students in their groups will present their findings about their utopian community using the worksheets as reference‍ for next class. ‍
 * Assessment:**


 * Closure:**
 * Homework:** Read up to page 79 in //The Giver//.

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