Using your resources (various packets of information, class discussions, the wide web) answer the following questions completely––
- What does SciFi have in common with mythology? Support and explain.
- What does SciFi have in common with fairy tales? Support and explain.
- What do the two sets of archetypes (Classic and Romantic) have in common? Support and explain.
- What archetype do you most relate to? Why? Support and explain.
- How much does technology affect your day to day life? Support and explain.
- What do you think will be the "next big thing" in technology? Support and explain.
- What do you think the world will be like when you are thirty? Support and explain.
- Why do ScifFi writers use religion in their stories? Support and explain.
Among the stories we will be reading are (the provided links are what I could find):
- "Microcosmic God" by Theodore Sturgeon
- What would you give up in the name of progress? Support and explain.
- Is it alright to trick people into doing something? Support and explain.
- Why do people give up their ability to make decisions or think for themselves? Support and explain.
- What was Kidder's best invention? How would it fare in our world? Support and explain.
- What will happen if the neoterics ever leave the island? Support and explain.
- "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov
- What would it be like to never know true darkness?
- What places in our own world may have inspired this story?
- Why do people go crazy when it actually gets dark?
- What is normal? (Analytical Paragraph w/support from the story)
- "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett with a bonus "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Caroll
- Why are the children able to accomplish things the adults are not? What lesson is there for the rest of us? Answer with an analytical paragraph using examples from the story and make a connection from other stories, real life, etc.
- "Huddling Place" by Clifford D. Simak
- How common is a fear that controls someone so completely? Answer with an analytical paragraph using examples from the story and make a connection from other stories, real life, etc.
- "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril
- Why doesn’t the mother see the problem with the child? How do parents often see the best or worst in their children? Answer with an analytical paragraph using examples from the story and make a connection from other stories, real life, etc.
- "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke
- Why do some people want the world to end already? Answer with an analytical paragraph using examples from the story and make a connection from other stories, real life, etc.
- "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin
- When is it okay to sacrifice one life for the needs of several others? Answer with an analytical paragraph using examples from the story and make a connection from other stories, real life, etc.
- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (yes, it's a novel)
Vocabulary for 5/4/15 Quiz
- Bailiwick: a person's area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work
- Bona fide: made or carried out in good faith
- The Bounce: the ability to move, then crawl, then walk after life knocks someone all the way to the bottom
- Complacent: pleased with oneself, often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied
- Dharma: the principle of cosmic order (Hindu); the teaching or religion of Buddha; applying beliefs to how life is lived
- Dilettante: a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement; may find a true passion or in the promotion of others; a dabbler
- Eclectic: not following any one system, but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems
- Enfranchise: to grant a franchise to; admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting
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