MYP3 Lesson 15&16 2025 (after test week)

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MYP3 Lesson 15&16 2025

 (after test week)

Good Morning

Plague 99

A friendly warning about the following activity. We will be reading an extract from a novel written in 1989 about a plague hitting London in 1999 and wiping out almost the entire population. Reading this text felt really bizar considering the times we are living in right now.

Plague 99

The Extract

The disease results in a painless death.

1. true
2. false

Are people helpful during the outbreak of the disease?

1. Yes
2. No

What do you learn about the disease throughout the extract?

Does this story classify as Sci-Fi?

1. Yes
2. No

We have a fictitious world; that is the first step: it is a society that does not in fact exist, but is predicated on our known society; that is, our known society acts as a jumping-off point for it; the society advances out of our own in some way, perhaps orthogonally, as with the alternate world story or novel. It is our world dislocated by some kind of mental effort on the part of the author, our world transformed into that which it is not or not yet. This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise to events that could not occur in our society—or in any known society present or past. There must be a coherent idea involved in this dislocation; that is, the dislocation must be a conceptual one, not merely a trivial or bizarre one—this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society so that as a result a new society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition. He knows that it is not his actual world that he is reading about."

Philip K. Dick (1981)

What is the effect of the use of the letter?

What dystopian elements did you come across?

Living in a bowl

Can science fiction help predict the future?

Please read the following text

Work on this Activity

This is the video

What is a futurist?

Which innovations did the RAND Corporation forecast?

Why is being able to predict the future important?

Which prediction from the novel 'Brave New World' were correctly predicted?

Which prediction from the novel 'Fahrenheit 451' were correctly predicted?

Which prediction from the novel '2001 A Space Odyssey' were correctly predicted?

Can we use literature, specifically science fiction and dystopian literature, to predict the future?

What predictions about the future are made in 'Ender's Game'?

Living in a bowl

How is Ender confined physically?

How is Ender confined metaphorically?

How is Ender confined virtually?

Blog Writing

1. What is a blog?

2. What type of blogs are there?

3. What alternatives are there for Blog writing?

4. Have you ever read a blog? If so, what was it on?

Blog Writing

Blog Writing

When writing a travel blog one of the questions for bloggers is what to write about. Read this advice:

https://expertvagabond.com/how-to-start-travel-blog/ 

Make a summary of the top tips about writing a blog. What elements do you really need to consider, what elements should a good blog consist of?

Travel Blog Activity

Blog Activity

Demosthenes and Locke

Creative task: Ender's Game

Let's work on the following creative activity in Pairs.

Activity