KS3 Y9Dystopian fictionHomework
What is dystopian fiction?
About 60 minutes. Your answers save on this device as you type. At the end, download them or print them to hand in.
Task 1 · Predict and learn
What do the words mean?
Before you look anything up, have a go. A guess is fine. Use the word parts and anything you already know.
Watch and take notes
Watch this video about dystopian fiction twice: once just listening, then again making notes.
Features of dystopian fiction
Tick the ideas you heard or spotted, then add any more of your own.
Task 2 · Key vocabulary
Five important words
Match each word to its meaning, then use it in a sentence of your own.
Task 2 · Close reading
Read, highlight, summarise
- Read the passage once.
- Click the 10 most important words or phrases to highlight them. (Click again to remove.)
- Switch to “?” mode and click any word you do not know. Then look it up.
- Give the passage a title and summarise it in 50 words or fewer.
Task 3 · 200-word challenge
Write a description
Challenge: use these three words: oppressioncensorshippost-apocalyptic
Need help starting?
- Start with what you can see, then hear and smell.
- Use a simile: “The sky hung over the ruins like…”
- Show, don’t tell: how do the people look and move?
- Hint at why the world is like this.
All done?
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