Sci-Fi setting

Today we discussed how the setting of a sci-fi story can be just as important as the storyline.  We looked at two scenes from Wall-e.  The storyline of Wall-e is pretty straight forward: Wall-e wants to get EVE back.  Where the story takes place and what the setting says about us as humans living on earth now is almost more important than what Wall-e is doing!  The setting is earth 700 years in the future.  We have exhausted our resources and have been living a useless life of luxury on a spaceship.  The author's purpose is to show us that if we do not change how we are living now, there will be some serious consequences.


Here is the worksheet we did in class today.

Here is a picture of a future world.  I asked the students to dream.  What is this?  Where is it located?  Why was it built?  This place could be the setting of hundreds of storylines!