Monday, October 23 - Friday, October 27

Friday
1. In honour of Frankenstein Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UtoYsQJdeM
2. Passengers - let me know today if you are having any difficulties with Hypothes.is and the annotation of the short story Passengers. It should be done by now.
3. So far we have covered: Mushrooms and Come into the cellar - Passengers - District 9 - Is Stephen Hawking right about aliens? 
Today Scariest Science Fiction Aliens: https://futurism.media/scariest-science-fiction-aliens

What form do they take?
What do they want?
Strengths
Weaknesses

What aspect of human fear does this alien embody?
Michelle/Ethan/Zach  
Zenomorph (Alien)
             
Celesta/Cameron/Lindsay G  
The Tyranids
    
Lindsay H/Gabby/Kamryn  
The Borg    
                               
Saffron/Diana/Ross   
The weeping angels

                  
Sophie/Elijah/Avarie
Body Snatchers 
                     
Isaac/Ella/Dawson
The Colour (of space)

 Jay/Nico/Jared
The Thing
                           
Easton /Braeden/Ben
The Shadows

 Solopsism - The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
https://aeon.co/videos/when-we-look-for-aliens-why-do-we-always-find-ourselves-staring-back

 5. KAHOOT! Science Fiction and Writing Style Unit Review 
https://create.kahoot.it/#quiz/33a06fea-0a2a-4104-8c18-7bb21d5d1849



Thursday
I was away today, and I had promised that the instructions for the class would be on the blog and of course I forgot to post them!
A bit late, but here they are:

  1.  Students should read the poem Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath (some may have read it before, but that’s okay). On their copy of the poem, students should write down all the mental pictures, emotions, senses, words (their own words and words from the poem) that come to mind when they think of ‘mushrooms’.
  2.  Next, students should read the short story “Come into my cellar” – On their copy of the poem, students should compare and contrast the poem with the story. COMPARE: What is the similarity between the alien presence in the poem and the story? CONTRAST: How might the “aliens” in the poem and the aliens in the story be completely different things. 
Wednesday
During today's shortened class you should work on completing the annotation of The Passengers short story and begin work on your alien profile.


Tuesday
OCTOBER 24TH - It's National Crazy Day! 

1. Look at sample Evidence of Understanding: https://spark.adobe.com/page/yuwn2SbPHTIeS/
2. Identify short story terms
3. https://hypothes.is/groups/GW1KpW9m/english12adams - we will complete reading and annotation of story. I have decided to change the annotation idea to using short story terms and devices: initial incident, conflict, etc.
4. What do you think this story might be metaphorically referencing: the sexual revolution; drug addiction; free will
read at least one of these articles and submit your opinion using Hypothes.is
sexual revolution: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/opinions/kohn-seventies-sexual-revolution/index.html
free will: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/
drug addiction: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/understanding-drug-use-addiction

4. KAHOOT! Science Fiction and Writing Style Unit Review 
https://create.kahoot.it/#quiz/33a06fea-0a2a-4104-8c18-7bb21d5d1849



Monday
Today is National Canning Day!
Image result for national canning day
1. Synthesis essays: peer and self assess.
2. Go over the Aliens inquiry unit details. Evidence of Understanding.
3. Review of our inquiry questions so far
4. "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg - annotate this text - http://escapepod.org/2012/11/08/ep369-passengers/
5.
Groups for editing: 

 Michelle/Ethan/Saffron       Sophie/Cameron/Lindsay G         Isaac/Gabby/Kamryn

 Jay/Diana/Ross                  Easton/Elijah/Avarie                     Zach/Ella/Dawson

 Celesta/Nico/Jared             Lindsay H/Braeden/Ben



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