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Chat! Today’s Meet Discussion Questions
Big Question: Is Our World Becoming
Dystopian?
The video clip you watched is from the movie, “WALL-E”.
Although it is an animated movie, we can still focus on the
essential question, “Is our world becoming dystopian?”, and explore
similarities between the movie and the current world we live in.
9:45 - Watch the link to the video: “Human Dystopia” (3 min)
Is our world becoming dystopian? Let’s compare the similarities
between the clip and our world…
Questions you will explore in the Today’s Meet Chat…
10:00 - 10:15 Wall-e and Dystopia
- How
do people communicate with each other in Wall-e?
- Is
there a similarity to our world? What does this similarity say about us?
- Are
we on our way to total “Screen dependence”?
- In
the video, when people finally “detached” themselves from the screen, what
was their reaction? (such as when Wall-e introduced himself to them).
- How
comfortable were they with face-to-face communication?
- How
is this compare to us?
- What
similarities do you see between this clip and on-line bullying in our society?
Do screens allow us to be detached from the rest of the world?
- Are
we heading the wrong direction with technology?
- How
do we keep if from making us de-humanized in the way we communicate
with each other?
- How
could our dependence on technology affect us in other ways? Any hints from
Wall-e?
Below I have posted the Today's Meet links according to the book you are reading. Please copy and paste the link into a new window. Your teacher leader, who is in charge of your novel group, will introduce themselves. The first thing you need to do is type your first name only (no nicknames) and introduce yourself and share what school you are from. ex. Mr. Bresciani - "Hi everyone, I'm from Deshaye Catholic."
Your teacher leader will present the first question, you will respond to only to that first question.
Note, you can keep it short, as you only have 140 characters to respond. Then after you've had some time to talk about the video clip you will talk to your group about your novel so far, exploring some of these questions...
- What if your job (as an adult) was decided for you at the age of thirteen?
- What if there is was no more water in the world?
- What if one city ruled the entire world?
- What if where you lived determined your job and lifestyle?
- What if you had no memories or history to learn from?
- What if the government chose who you married?
- What if you were forced to look a certain way?
- What if there were no adults?
- What if one label decided your entire life?
- What if the law stated that each family was only allowed to have two children?
- What if most of the world’s population was wiped out by disease or war?
- What if there was an opportunity to preserve humanity and way of life by going underground? Would you do it?
- What if you knew someone in power was not working in the favour of the citizens, but instead their own interests? What would you do?
- What if you lived in a world where you had to turn your back on your whole way of life, if it meant doing the right thing?
Today's Meet Links:
Divergent: https://todaysmeet.com/Divergentchat
City of Ember: https://todaysmeet.com/ember
Hunger Games: https://todaysmeet.com/HungerGamesGroup
Eleventh Plague: https://todaysmeet.com/eleventhplaguechat
Maze Runner: https://todaysmeet.com/Maze_Runner
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