Jacob Sedar-Late

We had to read or watch sources showing Iron Man, Spiderman, or Spock.

Blog 12/15/2016 - Ben Schultz

Today in Science Fiction Exploration, we talked about spoilers, and under what circumstances it is OK to spoil a movie. We suggested that mostly how long the movie has been out, how popular it was, and the audience to which you are speaking factor into whether or not a movie is spoilerable. For example, a movie like Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980 and is considered a classic. The reveal that Vader is Luke's father is iconic, and should not be considered a spoiler. Some of us said that they don't mind spoilers, as it detracts very little from the overall experience of watching a movie or playing a video game. It also matters how much a movie or television series matters to you. If you care a lot about Star Wars, than you would most likely be angry if someone spoiled it for you, but if you do not like Star Wars, you probably couldn't care less.

12/12/16 Maeve McVeigh

Tensions were high in Sci Fi. Today in class we had round three of voting for our brackets. The 6 remaining characters were Spiderman, Steven Universe, Wolverine, Iron Man, Dr. Horrible and Spock. One of the closest rounds was when Wolverine went up against Iron Man. At first Wolverine had an advantage over Iron Man with the amount of supporters. However, multiple voters were persuaded to come to Iron Man's side, continuing him to the final round. The other characters that also advanced to the final round were Spiderman and Spock. Next week will be intense as we vote for our final champion. We're also curious to see who accumulated the most points throughout the entire bracket, as well as what kind of sandwich they will get.

 

Blog Nikita O'Sullivan 12/9/16

Today in class we watched the new Spider Man trailer. It is also sci Friday so students must read or watch a scientific piece. There is no Sci Friday log this time. There will be a final project on a character you read for sci Friday. Students are also allowed to read Fahrenheit 451, as long as you were incorporating some type of science fiction in your work. The reading is due Monday.

Spider Man Homecoming Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNE0zRNyXuc

Luek G-M 12/7/16 Blog

Today we learned more about the foil of Clarice and Mildred in the book Fahrenheit 451. These characters had opposite structures that made them so different. For example Clarice was full of life and died while Mildred is not full of life but lives. By examining these foils we can further learn about character development in science fiction texts. For the rest of the period we got to continue working on our texts for the discussion question on what the FBI did to ray Bradberry and how it relates to the book. Reading the text about the FBI watching him was actually quite interesting because it showed just how paranoid the us was. They believed that Bradberry's book could truly corrupt the mind reading it and following the ideas of communism.

12/6/16 - Sam Galgano Blog Post

Today in class, everyone split up into two groups. One group talked about how Mildred and Clarisse are foils of each other and the other group talked about how Montag and Beatty are foils of each other. One group was on one side of the room and wrote on the white board while the other group was on the opposite side of the room writing everything down on the other white board. Each group had to come up with points regarding how the two characters were foils of each other and they needed quotes from the book to support their claims. The group that explained how Montag and Beatty are foils of each other shared their information first. There wasn't enough time for the side with Clarisse and Mildred to present to the class, so they're going to present tomorrow. Before the bell rang, Mr. Rivers reminded everyone of the assignment that he had posted on Google classroom, which is to read an article that talks about Bradbury's experiences with the FBI. You have to select one specific piece of evidence from Section 1 that relates to a specific piece of evidence in the article.  The response should be 1-2 paragraphs long.

12/2/16 Tiernan Doyle

 Today, we discussed who will be victorious in our next round of debating on who is going to be the greatest science fiction character.

For our Sci-Friday project, we watched texts that involved the remaining sic-fi characters, and discussed, using the texts we had viewed, why a certain character would be victorious in the next round.