Flatland teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on Flatland for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Sections 1 to 4
Flatland’s surface world, shape-based ranks, and laws for Women show how familiar arrangements can support unequal power.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Sections 5 to 9
Recognition by hearing, touch, sight, and colour reveals how access to knowledge protects rank and creates demands for change.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Sections 10 to 13
The defeat of colour reform, priestly secrecy, and the dream of Lineland expose political control and restricted understanding.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Sections 14 to 18
The Square fails to teach Lineland, resists the Sphere’s lessons, and witnesses the Council suppress knowledge of other worlds.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Sections 19 to 22
The Square pursues higher dimensions, faces fear when teaching, and suffers imprisonment that leaves his knowledge threatened by doubt.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 30 questions and 40 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
Flatland
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Teacher and class
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