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World Building I
Kind of Activity:
Group Work
Objective:
Students will be able to understand different ways in which authors may establish the details of their fictional worlds
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5
Structure:
One of the first jobs of any novel is to establish the world in which it is set. Sometimes this is our own world, or a familiar past. But in science fiction, writers frequently need to invent new worlds that are either completely separate from our own, or that show a significant development from the world that is familiar. Understanding the world of a science fiction story - especially a dystopian one like...
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