This unit is designed to have students create their own utopian society, read Lois Lowry's novel The Giver, and watch M Night Shyamalan's film The Village. Students will first develop an original society striving for perfect systems of government, law, education, sustenance, etc. They will then read The Giver and complete open ended questions that will guide classroom discussions. In addition, showing the Hollywood film The Village will close out the unit with a final example of an attempted