Help me give my students WE, by Yvgeny Zamyatin. In this unit students will explore the essential questions: What is revolution and when is it justified? What are (or should be) the goals of revolution?
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Understanding causes, actions, and effects of historical revolutionary movements can inform our understanding of current/future revolutionary movements. In this unit students will explore the essential questions: What is revolution and when is it justified? What are (or should be) the goals of revolution? Students will use these essential questions as a foundation to learn about utopias and dystopias, totalitarianism, propaganda, and the difference between the terms revolution, protest, and riot. Using these key terms, students will explore historical and recent revolutions in order to determine the conditions that drive people to seek drastic social change.
Students will select a revolution of their choice to research and give an informational presentation in History class.
In English, students will read "WE" by Yevgeny Zamyatin to explore a literary perspective on the goals of revolution, and they will use this novel as inspiration to write their own short story centering around an individual and the choices they make during a period of revolution. Students will combine their informational presentations and short stories into a class "Book of Revolution", which students can use as an educational resource to show their friends and family. Additionally, students will participate in a culminating Socratic Seminar; through this discussion, students will be able to articulate whether or not they think revolution is justified in modern day society (as well as what the goals of such a revolution would be), using evidence from current events as well as the texts we've explored throughout the unit to justify their position.
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