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English

The Great What-If: Sci-Fi Winter Camp (Heinlein, Vonnegut, Bates)

In this one week intensive camp, students will read three classic science fiction short stories and discuss them in class.

Tassie Bauman Smith

355 total reviews for this teacher

25 reviews for this class

Completed by 94 learners

55 minutes

per class

3x per week

over 1 week

13-17

year olds

3-8

learners per class

per learner - per class

How does a "Multi-Day" course work?

Meets multiple times at scheduled times

Live video chats, recorded and monitored for safety and quality

Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher

Great for engaging projects and interacting with diverse classmates from other states and countries

How Outschool Works

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Description

Class Experience

In this one week camp, the students will explore three of the classic short stories in science fiction.  Students will read each short story before class begins.  Each lesson will cover some basic biographical information about the writer and the historical/cultural background needed to analyze the story.  Then we explore how the writer used their "What if..." to structure their short story.  Finally we will spend a significant amount of each class discussing the ethical and scientific issues...

Students will gain a new appreciation for these classic science fiction short stories, better understand their plot and structure, and enjoy discussing the implied ethical/scientific issues.

I am an enthusiastic reader of science fiction and genuinely enjoy helping students appreciate it too.

Students will read each short story before class begins.  Most of these short stories and should take a student 1-2 hours at most to read.

  3 files available upon enrollment
All of these stories can be accessed via free PDFs online.

2 hours 45 minutes per week in class, and an estimated 1 - 2 hours per week outside of class.

Any discussion of ethics is potentially controversial. "By His Bootstraps" features a distasteful protagonist who uses alcohol and tobacco and includes some mature and impolite words. "Harrison Bergeron" while not directed at such a mature audience is very disturbing in terms of ethics.  You know your learner best.  If you are concerned about the maturity/impolite nature of any of the stories or the ethical questions, please feel free to preview the stories and to reach out before class begins to talk about how the issues will be covered.

Teacher

Tassie Bauman Smith

🇺🇸

Lives in the United States

Writing, Grammar, Literature and ESL

355 total reviews

330 completed classes

About Me

I teach all kinds of English classes including writing, grammar, literature, and ESL.  I am an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction especially poetry, science fiction, and fantasy. 

I have been teaching for more than 10 years.  I taught English...