Utopian+Communities

--- FACTS The shakers --- Lacey

farm (Massachusetts), the fruitlands, the shakers, and the Pullman’s Capitalist Utopia were all communities tat bombed badly. - SHAKERS - no one owned anything, everyone shared everything. -they tried to be a "perfect community" - they got rid of anything that was making their community not perfect. - everyone had rules to follow - everyone looked the same (same age groups) - big community

Topic: Utopian communities

Focus: Shakers

Reason for choice: They are still around today, and are/were the most popular utopian community.

What's your point? (thesis): Why they "survived" the longest.

What three reasons do you have that will back up your point?

1) They were the "perfect" community

2) Their belives

3) They had no communication to the outside world.

What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?

The Shakers belived that they were the perfect communities, and what ever was in the way or making their community not perfect they got rid of it. Everybody lived the same and looked the same. Most of them all turned a year older on the same day. That's why it's called a Utopian commuity.

What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?

The Shakers belived in all sorts of things such as they would sit in silence and wait for the spirit to move hem, and believed in the second appearace of God, and when that second God came it would be a female.

What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it?

Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life?

Ideas on how you are going to present? Involve the class? Be exciting? Interesting? Wow? Huh? Ahhh?