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Utopia Teacher Guide 1 Year License
Author(s): COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY
Edition: 3
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For grades 7-9, this unit provides an opportunity for students to learn about the search through the ages for utopia and the struggles to grasp and maintain it on both personal and societal levels, while examining why ideas about utopia undergo change.
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- Acknowledgments
- The William & Mary Center for Gifted Education Units
- Section 1: Unit Introduction and Curriculum Framework
- Section 2: Teaching Tips for Implementing This Unit
- Section 3: Lesson Plans
- Lessons:
- Lesson 1: Introduction and Preassessment
- Lesson 2: Introduction to the Concept of Utopia
- Lesson 3: The Search for Utopia
- Lesson 4: “Harrison Bergeron” and Satire
- Lesson 5: Introduction to Reasoning and Community Service
- Lesson 6: Leadership and Happiness
- Lesson 7: Corruption of the Accidental Utopia: Lord of the Flies
- Lesson 8: Satire
- Lesson 9: Introduction to Research
- Lesson 10: Corruption of the Utopian Ideal: The House of the Scorpion
- Lesson 11: Hidden Utopia in “The Other Side of the Hedge”
- Lesson 12: Cultural Influences on Ideas of the Ideal
- Lesson 13: Individuality Lost: Fahrenheit 451
- Lesson 14: Utopia in Art and Poetry
- Lesson 15: Ideal Beauty
- Lesson 16: Dreams of Utopia: The Last Cuentista
- Lesson 17: Examining Life Through Quotations
- Lesson 18: Utopian Themes in Poetry and Picture Books
- Lesson 19: Individuality Lost: The Giver
- Lesson 20: Censorship
- Lesson 21: Presentation of Research
- Lesson 22: Evaluation of the Community Service Project
- Lesson 23: Journey’s End
- Lesson 24: Closing Discussion of Utopia
- Lesson 25: Postassessment of Literary Interpretation and Persuasive Writing
- Section 4: Grammar Study
- Section 5: Appendices
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY
The Center for Gifted Education (CFGE) at William & Mary University (College of William & Mary), is a research and development center providing services to educators, policy makers, graduate students, researchers, and parents in support of the needs of gifted and talented individuals. Located in Williamsburg, Virginia, the CFGE has established an international reputation for excellence in research, curriculum development, and service. Several major grants, including funding from the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act, have provided significant support for the work of the Center. In 2012, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation awarded CFGE the funds needed for a summer residential camp for low income, high-ability children, for four consecutive years. In 2015, William & Mary alumni, Mike and Nancy Petters, through the Petters Family Foundation, provided additional financial support to the program. In 2016, the Petters Family Foundation has committed to fully fund the program for the next four years. Camp Launch is only the beginning of the Center for Gifted Education’s goal to bring educational equality to all gifted students.