Brave New World Lesson Plan

Imagining Utopia

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

To understand the mechanics of creating a fictional utopia and come up with creative alternatives to the problems students identify in the World State.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5

Structure:

Students should work on a short story or film in which they create their own utopian society.

Encourage students to address the issues discussed in Brave New World (for example: entertainment, morality, science) through their own world-building. They should not feel obligated to create a complex narrative, but to instead focus on world-building in the fashion of the...