Resistance from Aristotle to Star Wars

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.04.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Teaching Situation And Rationale
  3. Unit Content
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix On Implementing District Standards
  7. Resources
  8. Notes

Resistance in Dystopian Literature: 1984 and Beyond

Michelle Hawkins

Published September 2026

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Notes

  1. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 19.
  2. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, 17.
  3. Ibid.
  4. Ibid.
  5. Ibid., 30.
  6. Thoreau, “Walking,” 182.
  7. Bradbury, “The Pedestrian,”
  8. Ibid.
  9. Ibid., 8.
  10. Ibid.
  11. Ibid.
  12. Ibid., 9.
  13. Ibid., 11.
  14. Ibid., 82.
  15. Ibid., 20.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,”
  18. Ibid., 76.
  19. Ibid.
  20. Samuel Kerstein, “Treating Persons as Means,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, April 13, 2019, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/persons-means/.
  21. Ibid.
  22. Ibid., 66.
  23. Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
  24. Ibid. 37.
  25. Ibid., 237.
  26. Martin Niemöller, "First They Came for the Socialists,"
  27. Ibid.
  28. Ibid., 77
  29. Ibid.

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