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Grade Level:
9 - 12
Literary Form:
American Novel
10 Lesson Plans/15 Handouts/66 Pages
ISBN:978-1-56077-824-0
Description:
Julian West is an insomniac who employs a mesmerist to help him sleep. He wakes after a long sleep of more than one hundred years to find himself in a society where hunger, crime, disease, and poverty have been eliminated. He spends time in the future and is schooled in the changes. He reawakens in the nineteenth century with a new outlook on the problems in his own time. The novel, by critiquing nineteenth-century American values and institutions, had an enormous impact at the time of its publication.
Activities:
This curriculum unit is designed for use in several different settings. Advanced placement U.S. history, government, language, and literature classes will benefit the most; philosophy and humanities courses would also be able to use the material in this unit. It is flexible enough for instructors to use some of the lessons or all of them according to individual needs. Students participate in brainstorming, debates, problem solving, questioning, research, group discussions, and presentations. Many questions are raised in this curriculum unit, and there are no easy answers to any of them. The unit suggests responses to many of the questions; however, instructors and students may go beyond the unit content as they explore insights.
Supplementary materials include an objective test with answer key and culminating activities.
Ethical Values:
Equality
Justice
Responsibility
Service
Teamwork
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