The science-fiction writing unit is done. Quiz 9 scores posted.

 To wrap up the science-fiction writing unit, we watched an episode from Ray Bradbury Theater called "The Long Years."  The video comes with the book series  Mrs. Watson and I teach from. This website gives a nice summary of the story.

The episode is uploaded on YouTube if you would like to see it.

Here are some of the questions we discussed.

Author's purpose: What are we supposed to get from the story?

We discussed this exchange:
    Captain: You have been living with your memories for 20 years.
    John: That’s all we have. Is that such a bad thing?
    Captain: I don’t know.

We discussed how the wife reacted when her husband died:
    Captain: Do you feel OK?
    Cora: The worst thing for anyone to feel is sad or lonely.

What does the movie tell us about what it means to be human?

What is Bradbury saying about holding onto our past?

 We all have had someone leave us.  What if we could recreate that person from our memories and live with him/her?  Would that be satisfying?  In the movie, we see that the main character is still lonely.

Next week, we write a 300 word compare/contrast paragraph.