Unit 2: Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
Guiding Questions
1. Can students identify and analyze the main element of fantasy and science fiction?
2. Can students interpret and analyze significant literary techniques: imagery, satire, flashback, irony, metaphor, simile, foreshadowing?
3. Can students make critical comparisons across text, noting the author’s style, as well as literal and implied content of text?
4. Can students recognize universal truths and themes?
5. Can students explain interactions and conflicts (character vs. self, nature, society) or conflict between major and minor characters and analyze how the interactions affect the plot?
6. Can students relate science fiction to personal experience?
Unit 2: Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
Fantasy is imaginative writing that takes the reader into an invented, unrealistic world.
Fantasy and science fiction can carry readers on journeys in time and can result in life lessons for the reader or listener.
Science fiction is a special division of fantasy that involves or is based on scientific principles.
Science fiction includes scientific fact and speculation and often comments on important issues in society that result in life lessons for the reader.
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