The Lady Who Sailed the Soul
1.You can only pick stories we covered after The Hunger Games.
2. You must not weave in other themes.
Your class voted on 2 genre specific readings, what were they?
1. Mystery
2. Thriller
Give one reason for full credit, 3 for double points!
2. didn't want to ruin her life
3. had different life goals/plans
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
2. What kind of sources do I expect to see in your works cited pg.?
3. What source can be listed but will not be counted as a secondary?
*2-3 main stories
*2-3 secondary sources (not including Wikipedia)
*So for every main story, you need to have a secondary source as well
1. 6 full pgs. min.
2. works cited page w/ 4-6 sources minimum
3. online copy posted to TurnItIn before class
4. one hard copy turned in during class April 13,2018 (Friday)What are the five assignments that go into the final portfolio?
1. One Sentence Story
2. Favorite Song, Favorite Character
3. Creative Touch (Flash Fiction or Personal Essay)
4. SF Review
5. Reflection
"If you want to be tragic, you can be tragic without destroying thirty thousand other people or without wasting a large amount of Earth property. You can drown in water right here, or jump into a volcano like the Japanese in the old books. Tragedy is not the hard part. The hard part is when you don't quite succeed and you have to keep on fighting. When you must keep going on and on and on in the face of really hopeless odds, of real temptations to despair"
List at least three themes that are present in this passage, six if you want double the points.
1. despair
2. humanity
3. perseverance
4. fighting on/never giving up
5. underdog
6. survival
1. Pick 2-3 stories...
2. Create a thesis that establishes a common theme and presents the different ways you will analyze the theme under
3. Biggest warning: create a unique argument, not a statement or a list
4. Conclusion paragraph: reiterate thesis and answer final question (which of your stories displays your theme the best, in your opinion)
2. Style
3. Tone
4. Theme
5. Symbolism
6. Moral
7. Setting
8. 5 Points of Plot
9. Conflict
10. POV
11. Characters
12. Allusions
1)Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University
2)Wrote/edited more than 500 books
3)Born in Russia in 1920, Died in Brooklyn in 1992
4)Has written in almost all genres of fiction, 9 out of 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification have books he published
Isaac Asimov
2. Never give up, despite unbelievable odds
Man vs. self
Man vs. society
Man vs. technology
* 2 for double points!
"If I came then, darling, I'll come again, wherever you are. You're my darling, my heart, my own true
love. You're my bravest of ladies, my boldest of people. You're my own."
Who said these lines, and from what story?
Mr. Grey No More, from The Lady Who Sailed the Soul
2. List the last three WOTDS we had, not including today's.
3. And what they mean.
2. Spieltier (play toy shaped in an animal), Shavie (trick/prank), Palaver (idle talk/side talk)
Rising Action: Getting accepted, going on forced vacation to New Madrid
Climax:Meeting Mr. Grey No More, starting and ending their affair, giving her a reason to finally becoming a sailor with a mission
Falling Action: the 40 years she spends in space, and imagines him in order to save everyone
Denouement: Successfully landing on New Earth, meeting him once more, getting married and living happily onto death
1. Where he was going when he encountered them
2. Who they (the humans) were
3. What resulted in their meeting
4. Who helped/saved Andrew
5. What Andrew wanted to do, that got him in that dangerous position in the first place
1. library
2. Two young men in their 20s
3. They made him take off his clothes/stand on his head/lay down/ and almost dismember himself
4. George, Little Mister
5. He wanted to get to the library to learn more about human beings and robots, in order to write the first book on the history of robots
* Double points if you include the corrections, "the dos"
1. Do not create a paper that presents this kind of lineup: “The theme of agony is shown in stories a, b, and c.”
Do try to complicate the layers of theme analysis: “The theme of agony is shown in stories a and b with the atmosphere of the setting, the way in which characters express their emotions, and the different forms of naturalistic symbolism.”
2. Never separate the paragraphs by story.
Do separate the paragraphs according to different forms of theme, as seen in each story (and consider making each story’s section a sub-paragraph)
3. Do not bring in other themes!
Remain within the territory of your one chosen theme, just analyze it in different ways.
4. Do not just end your conclusion paragraph on a thesis reiteration.
Make sure to answer the final question: which of your stories shows your chosen theme best?
Name the 16 stories we have read this semester, in chronological order from first week to today's.
1. Velveteen Rabbit
2. Gift of the Magi
3. Little Match Girl
4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
5. Captain America
6. Black Panther
7. The Hunger Games
8. Morella
9. Eleonora
10. Second Fiddle
11. The Most Dangerous Game
12. The Man Who Kept Hitting Me With An Umbrella
13. Various Methods for Killing Scorpions
14. The Love Story
15. The Lady Who Sailed The Soul
16. Bicentennial Man
*Double points if you name everything we watched in class!
2. Simpsons
3. Hunger Games
4. Catching Fire
5. Captain America
6. Black Panther
7. Black Knight
8. Little Match Girl
9. Toy Story 2