week 6 finish up 59+60 & utopia

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Get out your books

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

Goal: I know how to use the words from lists 59 & 60

find the word that matches the given definition.

a secret plan made by two or more people to do something that is harmful or illegal

the state or a period of forced absence from one's country or home

a person who legally belongs to a country and has the rights and protection of that country

unfair treatment : a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of people are ignored

people in general thought of as living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions, and values

recap

Individual study

- prepare presentation

- study words

- work on Holmwoods

- recap literature

Utopia

Thomas More’s “Utopia”

• Lawyer, sheriff, statesman
  
• Friend of Erasmus
  
• 1516 publishes Utopia
  
• A story about travel to an ideal society
  
• Not the first but the definition of the genre
  
• A commentary on society
  

• .....
• .....
• Eutopia
  
• Topos = place
  
• Eu = good
  
• “the perfect society” →

• ....
• ....
  
• Outopia
  
• Topos = place
  
• Ou = not
  
• “does not exist”/“nowhere”
  

A Meaningful pun

Recognizable

A utopia cannot be completely different from our society, it must resemble it, and appear to be a progression from or alternative version of our current society.

Read the geography of Utopia

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the system More describes here?

Read Their silver and gold

• Utopians attach little value to precious metals, why?

• Why should iron be more useful than gold and silver?

Homework

Which aspects of society is More criticising in Utopia?