Description
FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS SCIENCE FICTION GENRE LIBRARY LESSON:
- Recommended for: Grades 6-12
- Formats: PPT, Google Slides, and PDF
- Editable: YES, all text is editable
- Lesson duration: 25-30 minute whole-group discussion + 19-minute scrolling slideshow (timed at 45 seconds for each of the 25 slides in Part II)
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:
- 54 PPT slides + Google™ Slides
- Recommended Reads bookmarks (2 pages, editable)
PART I INCLUDES:
- review of genre (what is genre)
- students’ preliminary thoughts on the science fiction genre
- characteristics of the sci-fi genre
- why we should read science fiction
- science fiction mixes well with other genres – e.g., adventure, romance, thriller
- types of science fiction worlds
- technology
- themes of humanity
- science fiction protagonists and antagonists
- list of science fiction subgenres
- subgenre focus – dystopia – characteristics and examples
- subgenre focus – space opera – characteristics and examples
- subgenre focus – post-apocalypse – characteristics and examples
- two slides for checkout procedures and reminders
PART II INCLUDES:
This is a scrolling slideshow. If you time the Part II slides at 45 seconds each, the science fiction genre slideshow will 19 minutes in length.
- 5 tips for writing science fiction stories and novels
- Word of the Week: in medias res
- 4 would you rathers
- 3 trivia questions + answers
- 5 science fiction genre book quotations
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Announcements
- Reminders
- This week’s birthdays
- every slide contains gorgeous secondary-appropriate artwork!
SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS MENTIONED:
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Knife of Never-Letting Go by Patrick Ness
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
- multiple YA and middle school titles mentioned with the three sci-fi fiction subgenre focuses (space opera, dystopia, and post-apocalypse)
RECOMMENDED READS BOOKLISTS
- two bookmarks, editable in PPT and PDF
- all titles are science fiction genre books
- One bookmark is Grades 6-8, and the other is Grades 9-12.
- All titles are recommended on Titlewave for Grades 6-8 and 9-12.
- Both bookmarks include these subcategories: general science fiction, space opera, dystopia, and post-apocalypse
- All titles received positive reviews from professional library journals. Many received starred reviews.
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