Science Fiction

Introduction

You are starting the book by Mary Shelly called Frankenstein. It is considered the first ever novel of Science Fiction! You are going to try to understand why this is. What is Science fiction? 

Task

You are going to search the internet to answer question on your own paper. Due at end of class.

Process

On your own paper, click on links and answer questions.

1. Define Science Fiction

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson927/SciFiDefinition.pdf

2. Watch video and answer

What made it unique? What did Shelley create, and how did her view of the possibilities of science shape the way we imagine our world even today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnSmGFmP8qU

 

3. Pick one of these on this list and write a summary of movie or book and why it is science fiction

https://www.oclc.org/research/wtworldcat/topsciencefiction.html

 

4. Pick one of these authors and write a summary of their life and their most famous book

https://futurism.media/greatest-sci-fi-authors-of-all-time