Use this activity to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.

“New World”

In this activity, students conduct research to reimagine and reorganize New World to make it functional.

New World has become disorganized because the communities disagree on fundamental values.

• Imagine you have been selected as a small group of individuals to inhabit a new planet in outer space.
• Conduct research to discover difficulties that must be overcome before inhabiting another planet.
• Then create a presentation advertising your planet. Describe how your planet is more organized and safer than New World. Consider the items below when creating your description.

o Where will you find food and water?

o What is the atmospheric pressure like?

o What will your government system be?

o How will you maintain law and order?

o How will you develop and implement new technologies?

o Describe the planet’s temperature and oxygen.

• Use presentation software or visual aids to help show the class the details of your planet and the level of preparedness you have in place. Include illustrations or images that show the comparison to New World.

Teaching Suggestion: One way to implement this activity is by dividing students into small groups to create colonies and speculate about what it would be like to set up a government system in which collaboration is key.