Dystopian Writing - A World Without Mathematics

Dystopian Writing Task Resource
Engage Your Students with A Dystopian Writing Task Resource!

Introduce your students writing a dystopian narrative set in a world without mathematics. They will follow a brave protagonist battling against an antagonist who has eliminated math, leading to chaos and disorder. This resource encourages critical thinking about the importance of mathematics in society as well as narrative and imaginative writing skills.

What’s Inside:

Model Writing Example: A sample narrative that highlights key elements of dystopian narrative, providing a clear template for students to read and analyse. This has an AI generated image to accomany it and help inspire the idea of the antagonist villain.

Planning Page included this Learning Intention and Success Criteria as well as prompting questions and examples to help inspire your children before they begin.

Learning Intention: To create and gradually develop interesting plots, characters, and settings (ENG 2-31a).

Success Criteria:
An engaging title to draw in the reader.
A vivid setting and context for the story.
Gradual development of the background and plot.
Introduction and description of interesting and believable characters.
Use of figurative language techniques: alliteration, similes, and metaphors.
An ending that clarifies the protagonist’s aim and goal.