Students will enter the project by experiencing unfair control, discussing when resistance is justified, and recording first evidence-based ideas about law, morality, and oppression that will guide later argument writing and dystopia design.

Students will take an initial position on when breaking the law is justified in a fear-based dystopian society, test that position against multiple perspectives from Unwind, and produce a short claim-and-evidence statement they can strengthen in the next phase.

Students will strengthen their argument about law, morality, and resistance by sorting supporting and opposing evidence from Unwind, The Hunger Games, and short research sources; drafting a CEA-style defense with counterargument and rebuttal; and revising their dystopian society reasoning through timed peer critique and a scored defense checkpoint.

Students will present and defend their original dystopian society to an audience, use evidence from Unwind and The Hunger Games to justify claims about law, morality, and oppression, and complete a brief written reflection on the warning their society sends about the real world.