Oryx and Crake Lesson Plan

Fresh Blood and Budding Roses

Kind of Activity:

Mixed Media

Objective:

Students will be able to think critically about the ideas behind the fictional game "Blood and Roses"

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.8

Structure:

"Blood and Roses was a trading game, along the lines of Monopoly. The Blood side played with human atrocities for the counters, atrocities on a large scale: individual rapes and murders didn’t count, there had to have been a large number of people wiped out. Massacres, genocides, that sort of thing. The Roses side played with human achievements. Artworks, scientific breakthroughs, stellar works of...