Lesson Plan

Subject Language Arts Teacher Karen Batista

Grade 9 Term I Cycle 6
Students at the end of the term will have a repertoire of basic language
Goal which enables them to deal with everyday situations, talk about changes
using anecdotes, expressing their opinions, have a discussion adding and
contrasting information.

Topic: Writer’s journal.

Dystopian Fiction. Technological control
Use of grammar of Unit 1.

Worksheet
1. Complete the description with the words in the box
Wedding obsessed house starts world popular
“Nosedive” shows a world where people can rate each other from one to five
stars _. This can impact their socioeconomic status. Lacie is a young woman
who is obsessed with her ratings. She needs to elevate her ratings to move
to a beautiful house _.
Her old friend, a popular girl with 4.6 starts chooses her to give a speech at
her wedding and Lacie thinks that that is her perfect opportunity to get the 4.5
starts she needs. Will she make it?

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 2. Circle the adjectives that describe the world (town and people)
depicted in NOSEDIVE
Clean dirty tidy modern selfish friendly kind dangerous safe

CLEAN: The boss of lacie

DIRTY: lacie’s brother
TIDY: Beth
MODERN: lacie at the beginig of the chapter
SELFISH: lacie’s friend
FRIENDLY: the girl of the bus
KIND: Chester
DANGEROUS: I think the man that she ask if he has a charger to her car
the one of the little home
SAFE: The girl of the bus

3. Compare our reality to the one in Nosedive using the adjectives from
the previous activity.
The world in Nosedive is more modern than our world because the world is more
clean and is not dirty as the one of us, there the people is more tidy, friendly and
kind, but I thing that its not safe at all because is not good to their feelings, but in our
world and their world are dangerous people and also a persons that are too salfish

4. How is the world in Nosedive different from and similar to our world?
DIFERENT:
- They need to rate each other because if the don’t do that if going to see
bad to the other people.
- they are like wearing like the same thing all the days and the same color
palette.
SIMILAR:
- there are bad persons and they “discriminate” the people of other rates
or social estrat more down.

5. Analysing scenes.

Opening scene: What was Lacie

 doing?

I think that she was seeing her

rates and trying to smile to be a
happy person.

Coffee shop scene:

-What was everyone doing?

Rating each other to be a “best person”
and talking to each other.

-Did Lacie like her coffee?

No, she only take a picture of it and
then she tasted but she don’t like it.

-What was the most important thing for

her?
Be popular to have a new home whit.
her brother