a futuristic place is in the future with advanced technology

a society is a big group of people living together

if you suffer, you experience extreme pain

there is injustice when things are not fair

Understanding dystopias

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Using accurate sentences to describe dystopian settings

Using compound sentences to describe dystopian settings

Using complex sentences to describe dystopian settings

Creating atmosphere in dystopian descriptions

Using similes to create atmosphere in dystopian descriptions

Using a range of sentence types to describe dystopian settings

Using punctuation accurately in dystopian descriptions

Using sophisticated punctuation in dystopian descriptions

Describing a setting to reflect dystopian themes

Using semantic fields to create a clear tone in dystopian writing

Planning a description of a dystopian setting

Writing a description of a dystopian setting

Using vivid imagery to describe dystopian settings

Using feedback to improve dystopian descriptions

Revising sentence and punctuation types for a dystopian description

In 'Dystopian Settings', pupils use figurative language to create their own dystopian settings. In 'A Monster Within', pupils explore how authors use Gothic settings to create mystery and atmosphere. 

In 'The Twisted Tree', pupils explore Gothic imagery in a contemporary text. In 'Dystopian Settings', pupils use their own dark imagery to write their own descriptive pieces.

In this unit, pupils learn to write atmospheric dystopian settings. They first review and deepen their understanding of sentence types, before looking at how to use figurative language and sophisticated punctuation to enhance their descriptions. They finally plan and write a dystopian setting.

Dystopian settings: descriptive writing

The time and place that a story takes place.

The time period that a story takes place.

Which word means 'a bad and difficult place'?

Choose the main characteristics of dystopia.

Pick parts of our society that writers may want to show in their dystopian novels.

The flowers bloomed majestically in the garden.

The police prowled the streets intimidatingly.

The children played happily and calmly in the streets.

Which of the sentences below are dystopian sentences?

A word to describe how someone does something.

An action word, that tells us what someone or something does.

Using the same sound at the beginning of two consecutive words.

When a word resembles the sound it makes.

Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object.

Comparing two things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

A sentence with an independent and subordinate clause.

Which literary technique is this? Directly comparing an object to another thing.

What is the purpose of an adverbial phrase?

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Understanding dystopias

Lesson outcome

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.