After viewing The Fifth Element, please turn in your graphic organizer notes, and return to the lab to begin designing your sci-fi world.
Using your notes from your journal, begin to create your science fiction world. You will need to have a pretty good idea where you are setting your story. Is this earth? Is this another planet? Is this our solar system, or somewhere far, far away in a galaxy beyond our knowledge?
Set up rules for your setting. What resources and people and events and technology have helped shape this world or setting? What are some environmental risks likely to occur on this world? What tropes are you going to use in your story? Draw a mind map or make a list or outline your ideas.
For inspiration take a look at this link.
Once you have a defined setting (what does the place look like, smell like, what sounds do we hear? What's the season or the weather like? etc.) create a character and start your story with this character attempting to do something (give the character a goal) in this setting but include a conflict: person versus nature (setting). Let that be the first kind of conflict your character has to deal with. This helps introduce your strange, fictional setting more organically. As your character has to deal with the environmental conflict, we learn about the science fiction environment you are creating.
For example: Perhaps the character is an ex-space marine trying to forget the recent war when he/she finds him/herself caught up in a rebel coup. He/she is taken captive. How will the character escape the situation--perhaps complicated by recurring flashbacks of an alien attack.
Or
Perhaps the character is a soy-farmer on an asteroid settlement deep in space, but finds evidence that something alien is eating his/her crop. Without food, the settlement is likely to fail. What will this character do to solve the problem?
Plan your story. Do not begin without thinking about what story you are going to tell first and where the story takes place! You may also find it helpful to use The Martian Chronicles as a model for your story in some way if you are stuck.
When you are ready, write. Aim to finish planning by the end of class. If you are ready, write the first scene of your story.
HOMEWORK: Complete The Martian Chronicles. There will be a test on this book next week. Keep writing your science fiction story. Try to complete the first scene of your story if you did not do so during class.
Using your notes from your journal, begin to create your science fiction world. You will need to have a pretty good idea where you are setting your story. Is this earth? Is this another planet? Is this our solar system, or somewhere far, far away in a galaxy beyond our knowledge?
Set up rules for your setting. What resources and people and events and technology have helped shape this world or setting? What are some environmental risks likely to occur on this world? What tropes are you going to use in your story? Draw a mind map or make a list or outline your ideas.
For inspiration take a look at this link.
For example: Perhaps the character is an ex-space marine trying to forget the recent war when he/she finds him/herself caught up in a rebel coup. He/she is taken captive. How will the character escape the situation--perhaps complicated by recurring flashbacks of an alien attack.
Or
Perhaps the character is a soy-farmer on an asteroid settlement deep in space, but finds evidence that something alien is eating his/her crop. Without food, the settlement is likely to fail. What will this character do to solve the problem?
Plan your story. Do not begin without thinking about what story you are going to tell first and where the story takes place! You may also find it helpful to use The Martian Chronicles as a model for your story in some way if you are stuck.
When you are ready, write. Aim to finish planning by the end of class. If you are ready, write the first scene of your story.
HOMEWORK: Complete The Martian Chronicles. There will be a test on this book next week. Keep writing your science fiction story. Try to complete the first scene of your story if you did not do so during class.
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