Monday, October 29 - Friday, November 3

Reminder: your alien profile is due on Thursday of this week.
Friday
Short story terms and devices
Quizlet https://quizlet.com/168944317/english-12-terms-and-devices-flash-cards/
Kahoot

Peer present Alien Profiles in small groups

Michelle/Ethan/ Ben
         
Zach /Celesta/Cameron

Lindsay G/  Lindsay H/Gabby
                             
Kamryn / Saffron/Diana  
                 
Ross /Sophie/Ella
                   
Avarie/ Isaac/Elijah

 Dawson /Jay/Nico
                   
Jared/Easton /Braeden

 Thursday
9:10 - 9:40  Next text: Cat Pictures Please, What's a person & Ethics for Extraterrestrials
Before we read Cat Pictures Please: on your recipe card write down the answers to the following questions.

Data & Spot   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGVfMxvzEHE
iRobot clip   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouht1xip9NQ
Sophia is a citizen of Saudi Arabia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acj3jYRLLmk
Ex Machina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI8XBKb6DQk

Share your recipe card responses from Tuesday: What is a person? What properties must an entity possess to be a "person"?

 a couple of relevant terms related to "personhood"...

Sentient means to be able to perceive or feel; what are the requirements that a sentient being has to have to in order to be granted "personhood"?

Solopsism from the Urban dictionary: Philosophical theory which holds that everything is a product of my mind. Given a mention in George Orwell's 1984, lending it greater recognition than it otherwise would have enjoyed. Now used as a synonym for self-absorption. 
or
The belief that the person holding the belief is the only real thing in the universe. All other persons and things are merely ornaments or impediments to his happiness.

 * hentai - manga and anime pornography
* "the Matrix", created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source
 * HAL the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a sentient computer (or artificial general intelligence) that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew. He is mostly depicted as a camera lens containing a red or yellow dot. HAL speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole.
* Skynet is a fictional neural net-based conscious group mind and artificial general intelligence (see also superintelligence) system that features centrally in the Terminator franchise and serves as the franchise's main and true antagonist.
* Marvin, the Paranoid Android, is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold. Originally built as one of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's GPP (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet"[1] which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use.
The Golden Rule - treat others as you wish to be treated.
Asimov's  3 laws of robotics
  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

* Maneki neko - see pic below













* cat pictures
 

 



If we have time, or need a brain break...
KAHOOT! Science Fiction and Writing Style Unit Review 
https://create.kahoot.it/#quiz/33a06fea-0a2a-4104-8c18-7bb21d5d1849





Wednesday

 Time to work on your alien profile
Today is a FEEDBACK day! Please show me your progress on the alien profile so I can give you feedback.

Tuesday

10:43 - 11:20
Next text: Finish up I lost my talk and Walking both sides of an invisible border begin "Cat Pictures Please."




11:20 - 11:55
Time to work on your alien profile

Monday

2:13 - 2:43
Next texts: Subterranean Homesick Alien, I lost my talk, Walking both sides of an invisible border.

2:43 - 3: 25
Time to work on your alien profile

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