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Understanding a Society’s
aCTIvITy 2.4
Way of life
Learning Targets
• Collaboratively analyze the opening chapters of a fictional text citing text evidence to support your analysis.
• Analyze the significance of specific passages to interpret the relationship between character and setting.
Questioning the Text
Remember that questioning a text on multiple levels can help you explore its meaning more fully. Read the definitions below and write an example of each type of question, based on texts you have read in this unit.
• A Level 1 question is literal (the answer can be found in the text).
• A Level 2 question is interpretive (the answer can be inferred based on textual
evidence).
• A Level 3 question is universal (the answer is about a concept or idea beyond the text).
You will be reading a novel that questions whether a utopian society is possible. Such novels generally fit into the genre of science fiction.
Word CoNNeCTIoNS
Etymology
Fantasy comes from the
Old French word fantasie (“fantasy”), the Latin word phantasia (“imagination”), and the Ancient Greek
word phantasia, meaning “apparition.” The literary genre of fantasy is imaginative fiction crafted in a setting other than the real world. It involves creatures and events that are
1. Read the following text to gather more information about science fiction (from improbable or impossible in the
readwritethink.org). As you read, highlight the characteristics of science fiction.
Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science
and technology of the future. It is important to note that science fiction has
a relationship with the principles of science—these stories involve partially true/partially fictitious laws or theories of science. It should not be completely unbelievable with magic and dragons, because it then ventures into the genre of fantasy. The plot creates situations different from those of both the present day and the known past. Science fiction texts also include a human element, explaining what effect new discoveries, happenings and scientific developments will have
on us in the future. Science fiction texts are often set in the future, in space, on a different world, or in a different universe or dimension. Early pioneers of the genre of science fiction are H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds) and Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). Some well-known 20th-century science fiction texts include 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
world as we know it.
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learNING STraTeGIeS:
Visualizing, Questioning the Text, Predicting, Graphic Organizer, Note-taking, Discussion Groups
dimension: a level of existence or consciousness
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