A KS3 lesson introducing dystopian fiction through key vocabulary, genre features and George Orwell’s 1984. Students explore how writers create controlled and unsettling societies before applying these ideas to their own dystopian opening.

Includes:

• Do Now starter
• Key vocabulary: dystopian and utopian
• Key features of dystopian writing
• Reading task using an 1984 extract
• Retrieval and annotation activities
• Genre analysis questions
• Model ideas for discussion
• Creative dystopian writing task
• Differentiated challenge prompts