Instructional Plans

Lesson Plan One for September 4th. This lesson is for teaching symbolism, and having the students create new symbols. With the students creating new symbols, it gives them the full idea of a symbol and how it represents people, places, events or ideas.

Lesson Plan Two for September 7th. This lesson is for students to analyze and discuss the decision-making process that they have read thus far about Tris.

Three handouts for this lesson attached below. (Teachers Pay Teachers).

Lesson Plan Three for September 24th. This lesson is to find the overarching themes throughout the course of the text. They will track the change and development of the themes.

The theme handout for this lesson attached below. (Teachers Pay Teachers). There is also a document attacted with a list of themes that are found in Divergent. The document contains all the information from Schmoop.com.

Extra Resources for the Unit

Engagement for Dystopian Literature.

Dystopian and Utopian Literature handout.

Divergent

Guided Reading Questions.

Divergent

Vocabulary List

Introduction to Dystopian and Utopian Literature PowerPoint.