Dystopian fiction booklet. Practise summarising the differences presented in two texts, making inferences and supporting them with short quotations. About 60 minutes. Keep your Dystopian Fiction Booklet open next to this page. Your answers save on this device as you type.
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Practise summarising the differences presented in a text.
Practise inferring: reading between the lines.
Support your ideas with short quotations from both extracts.
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Texts: the extracts are not copied into this page. Students read Noughts and Crosses (page 5) and The Hunger Games (page 6) in the updated Dystopian Fiction Booklet, which no longer contains the Save The Pearls: Revealing Eden text (these were pages 8 and 9 in the old booklet). To add a button, set BOOKLET_URL in the script.
Shared focus (Task 1): I have taken the common focus to be how the narrator connects with the people close to them in a difficult world (Sephy and Callum, Katniss and her family). The beginning, middle and end prompts are my own wording; change them if you see the focus differently.
Task 2 and the model paragraphs: the quotation choices, summaries, worked example and example paragraphs are my own, written for these two extracts.
Removed from the old lesson: the exam-confidence aim, Episode 4 and the final confidence check. The last two steps (“Your turn” and the checklist) now have students write the differences paragraph.
Chat prompts: Task 1 and Task 2 still ask students to share ideas in the chat; typed answers are in the boxes as well.
Pathways: Support = frames and hints; Core = starters; Stretch = a second inference and naming the method.