Short Stories
Ready Player One
Vocab Definitions
Film Unit
Vocab in Context
100

The characters who called other characters "meat" in "They're Made Out of Meat".

What are aliens?

100

Wade's alter ego

Who is Parzival?

100

This is a robot with a human form.

What is an android?

100

Katniss' primary skill in "The Hunger Games."

What is archery? 

100

A Roomba is an example of this.

What is a robot?

200

The planet the characters in "All Summer in a Day" lived on.

What is Venus?
200

The author of Ready Player One

Who is Ernest Cline?

200

This is a type of world where everything is perfect.

What is a utopia?
200

This was used to transport dinosaur embryos in Jurassic Park.

What is a shaving cream can?

200

A world filled with wizards and unicorns.

What is fantasy?

300

This is why the characters travelled back in time in "A Sound of Thunder."

What is "to hunt dinosaurs"?

300

The members of the High Five

Who are Parzival, Art3mis, Aech, Daito, and Shoto?

300

The definition of science fiction.

Fiction that deals primarily with science or technology, and asks a "what if?" question about society.

300

Hiro's invention in Big Hero 6.

What are microbots?

300

A comet travelling through space towards earth is an example of this.

What is an extraterrestrial?

400

A major difference between Jim and Julia in "The Comet".

What is racial background?

400

The person Wade competes against in the final battle

Who is Nolan Sorrento?

400

This is the key difference between an extraterrestrial and an alien.

What is aliens are alive?

400

The major type of technology Jurassic Park is based around.

What is genetic engineering?

400

An alternate timeline where students all have Macbooks instead of Chromebooks, use Yahoo instead of Google, and where our mascot is the Eagle.

What is a parallel universe?

500

The command Nestor 10 was given in "Little Lost Robot" which made it disappear.

What is "go lose yourself"?

500

The name of Halliday's girifriend

Who is Kira?

500

These are the Three Laws of Robotics.

What is:
1. A robot may not injure a human
2. Robots must obey orders from humans
3. Robots must protect their own existence

500

The reason Det. Spooner hates robots in "I, Robot."

What is "because it saved him and not a little girl from drowning?"

500

An android has to leave the house because you told it to "get lost" because of this Law of Robotics. 

What is the Second Law?