Alex Jensen

Dr. Prince
EDU 412
Creating a Text Set
Topic: Dystopias
Anchor Text: Fahrenheit 451
Additional Texts:
1. School book bans show no signs of slowing, PEN America finds : NPR; a short non-
fiction article about the banning of books in the US in recent years
2. Fahrenheit 451 (2018); a newer movie adaptation of the anchor text
3. Book Burning | Holocaust Encyclopedia (ushmm.org); a longer non-fiction article about
the Nazi book burnings
4. TERMINUS - Making Inferences in a Captivating Digital Escape Room - Entire Series -
Nouvelle ELA Teaching Resources (teachnouvelle.com); a digital escape room in which
students play as a character in a dystopian world and need to make sense of “found texts”
5. How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler (youtube.com); a short video from TED-Ed
that explains what a dystopia is and how to recognize it