Context Assessment Revision Questions
The following questions are designed to get you thinking about the core ideas of the Future World context and how they can fit within our student of the film text Children of Men. Answer the following questions using examples from this film to illustrate your ideas, along with any other examples which you feel are relevant.
1. Define the following key words. What do they mean?
A. ‘visions’
B. ‘future’
C. technology
D. progress
E. utopia
F. dystopia
2. Write down the names of three films and/or books that you have seen or read that are set in the future and present a positive view of the future.
3. Write down the names of three films and/or books that you have seen or read that are set in the future and present a negative view of the future.
4. Think about Children of Men and consider the following:
A. How does it portray human values?
B. How does it portray human achievements?
C. How does it portray human relationships?
D. How does it portray the environment?
5. How important to the future is a knowledge of the past?
6. What can be learned from history? Does history repeat itself? Is it possible to break away from historical patterns?
7. How important to a study of the future is a knowledge of the present?
A. What can be learned from current events and ideas?
B. What preconditions would be necessary in order to radically alter the patterns of the present?
8. Will the future be managed by people or will people be managed by the future?
9. To what extent will technology be a benign or malignant force to be reckoned with? Why?
10. Future scenarios arise from current world-views. Using your knowledge of texts including Children of Men, consider the possible, probable and preferred future scenarios in relation to:
A. Human progress
B. Family structures
C. Security issues
D. Global environment
E. Politics
F. Technology
G. Social values
H. Law and order
Context Revision PowerPoint
The following PowerPoint goes through some of the key ideas and examples from Fahrenheit 451, along with two of the additional texts that you had the opportunity to explore: the first chapter of George Orwell’s 1984 and the Ray Bradbury short story August 2026: There will come soft rains. These slides are designed to jolt your memory of some of the key ideas of these texts, and remind you of the wide variety of examples that you can draw upon to illustrate your ideas in a context response: note that these slides alone will not be sufficient revision.
Context Essay Structure Revision
The following PowerPoint will take you through the basics and give you some hints for structuring a context style response. Remember that your focus is on exploring a breadth of ideas by drawing upon examples from multiple texts and other sources.
You can use the prompts in the below post, or come up with some of your own, in order to practice writing a context response.
