Students on Personal Utopia/Dystopia

Excerpts from student quickwrites in resonse to the question “How is your life utopic or dystopic?”:

….My life is utopic cause we have Freedoms. We have cops to pretect us from the bad people. The state of Virginia has armed forces to fight against other countries and states.

….My life really isn’t utopic, but at least I have food, shelter, and the ability to attend school. But my life is mainly distopic, wich is saw to by … my stepdad whom I don’t like him…. He’s even thinking about getting rid of my cat, the closest thing I have to a friend at home.

….My life is mostly dystopic because I do chores all the time and I never have to time in my own utopic world thinking thinking thinking my dystopic world look like the devils utopia I just want to throw up my utopic life is miles of video games 20 famous soccer fileds and a pizza stand and that is all folks

….My family is not dystopic because we don’t have a diese and our house is not overcrowded. We usally don’t have human misery.

….My life is both utopic and dystopic. It is utopic when we have food on the table and we talk all night. It’s dystopic because my grandma sick and we are pooor like a hobo but I dream of a world that the redskins go 16-0 and my grandma plays football….

….My life is utopic because my family goes on a lot of family trips. We go to a lot of football games we go to Dominos every friday we order chinese on Mondays…and when my family agrees on something it happens. My life is dystopic when I get grounded and something gets tooken away, when I get sick because I can’t go outside and play basketball, when someone in my family dies because we were really close, or when I sometimes don’t get the movie CD or Book I want


….My life is Dystopic because I don’t always get what I want. Right now I really want a new Ipod cover but my mom says no because she thinks my old one is just fine but in a Utopic world I would have a million new Ipod covers 3 in every color. Plus I don’t always get along with some people. We may disagree on some opinions and get into an arguement or I may not like the way they behave and stare at them angrily from behind

….My life is a Utopic….I can’t think of anything. Oh!! Friends!!! Girlfriend. Esspeshialy Girlfriend….IDK!….Lady GaGa!!….

….In the fall it is totaly distopic….Don’t have any time to eat or do home work. But in the winter it is almost Utopic playing in the snow drinking hot chocolate by the fire place watching family Guy with my whole family. We are snowed in and on christmas break that is awesome.

5 Comments

  • Mavis

    #1… WHO on earth let's their child watch The Family Guy?

    #2 I LOVE reading what your students write… it's scary… but entertaining.

    #3… I feel bad for the kid who's "happy when there is food on the table" and who's family is "pooor like a hobo."

    #4 What do you teach? I hope it's not spelling 🙂

    ~Mavis

  • Second Sister

    Thanks for sharing, Teach. I feel like crying and also laughing when I read this. Plus I dont like life somtimes eather cause I caint get what I want.

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