Locke and Demosthenes

Who is John Locke and Demothenes? John Locke is a famous philosopher and physician from the 17th century. one of the first people that was in the war. he thought that we were born without thought and that we get them through experiences. able to pursue your own needs. social contract is the relationship between the government and individuals in the government
Demothenes thought that his state was becoming smaller so he thought that his state should break away from Greece. he is against what everyone else thinks. he was a radical who opposed the rule of Athens by Macedonia (cold war- there was no battle. they use threats of persuasion - FEAR. wont win public favor. he underestimates people fear of Russia. marsaw pact important - keeps all together to fight buggers
Give a summary of each (2-3 sent) and describe how they are related to Valentine and Peter (2-3 sent). I think that Demothenes relates to peter because they are both sort of people who like power and are disliked by many people and they both have a fear of Russia.)   john locke is like valentine 

Summarize Peter and Valentine's position that they take on the nets.


What role does fear play into how successful Valentine and Peter are?

Monday 30/5: Technological Advance

Do you think that the story presents technological advance as being positive or negative?
I think that technical advancement is a positive advancement because it allows humans to protect each other or protect the planet. in the book if the buggers had invaded earth in the 1800 we would be unable to protect ourselves and we would be over run by the buggers. But because of technological advancement we were able to protect our planet from the buggers.
Humans are also able to communicate easily through technology which is used as a bad thing in the beginning of enders game as a form of bullying but on earth is can be used for that but also may other positive points.
But it can also be bad because one day we may be over run by technology, allowing them to think for themselves and be smarter than any human ever could be may allow it to take over the humans. and the new generations may only be used to technology and never have to do anything and it could make many people unemployed, this has already started happening right now on earth.

What part do humans play in this advancement?
humans are developing the technology to make all this fiction become real.  

Ender's Game Quiz Chapters 1-7

1. What person is the narrative told in? it is told in 3rd person
2. What is a 'Third'? the third child in the family
3. What game does Peter want to play with Ender? buggers and astronorts
4. What are two reasons why Ender doesn't want to go to battle school? because he doest want to leave valentine and he knows that when he sees his family he wont see his family for about 20 years
5. What type of irony is used when the audience knows more than the characters? dramatic irony is used in the story
6. How does Graff treat Ender when he first gets to battle school? he treats ender like he is the best and makes all the others hate him
7. Who is Ender's room leader at battle school? dap is enders room leader
8. What happens when Ender goes to the games room for the first time? he versus older boys and wins
9. Who is Bernard and what is Ender's relationship to him? bernard is enders enemy and he is a launchie with ender
10. What role is Alai voted in to? What role does he now play for the group? alai is both bernards and enders friend and is bridge between the two
11. What mistake does Ender make immediately upon joining Salamander Army? he is late to see the commander
    What happens to Ender in the battle against Condor that gets him recognition? he draws the match between them

Valentine Notes

Valentine is Ender's older sister, and she does what she can to protect him from Peter, their sadistic older brother. Valentine has much of Ender's compassion, but she does not have Peter's ruthlessness. However, as the story progresses, Valentine learns that the differences between the three siblings are not as great as they seem. She never ceases believing that Ender is the best of them, and she loves him unconditionally. In fact, her love helps save Ender when the pointlessness of Battle School threatens to break him. But as she begins working with Peter to transform the political system on earth, using her pseudonym Demosthenes, Valentine learns that there is a part of her that enjoys control.

Although she does not want to manipulate people for the sake of manipulation, like Peter does, Valentine knows that she is intelligent enough to make a major difference and sees no reason why she should not. However, she would never wish to do damage in her attempt to change the world. Valentine, like Ender, would never deliberately harm someone else. Unlike Ender, however, she falls prey to the irresistible urge to power. But that urge would never take her down Peter's road of power at any cost.

Chapter 2: Peter

• valentine is nice to ender
• she feels sorry for him
• she tries to calm down peter when he is beating up Ender and that he is going to kill him

Chapter 3: Launch 


Sum up valentine: Smart, mild, caring


Valentine is a nice mild caring sister to ender. but to mild be be 

25/5/11 Characterization

(Literal) What are the important elements of characterization? Some of the important elements for characterization are a good description of what they look like. E.G. Hair, body type, skin, posture, face etc. It is also important to say how the character acts. E.G. Angry, happy, nice etc. Finally how the character reacts in the story to different things
Action, speech - dialogue, thoughts, physical description, persona (who they are...readers reaction), effect on others, names, characters background. 


(Figurative) Why is Characterization important? Characterization is important because it gives the reader an idea of who the character is and what they act like in the story.
create connection with character, ads interest into the story, insight into why things happen, add depth to story, make it more "real", 


Characters: Ender, Peter, Valentine, Graff, Bernard (antagonist), Mum and Dad


Figurative = Greater conclusion

Chapter 5 - Games

Chapter 5  Games

1. Who is the room leader? (39) Ender was chose to be the room laeder
2. What role does Dap play to the boys? Dap play's their "mother" while they are at battle school
3. (44) Who is Mick and what advice does he give Ender? Mick is an older boy who is about to be kicked out of battle school and he tels ender to become a leader and make friends with everyone if he wants to become a commander
4. (45) What does Ender miss his first night? He misses his sister valentine and his family
5. (48) What happens when Ender goes to the games room and plays an older boy for the first time? he wins the battle against the older boy, loses the first two and winds the last
6. (49) Who is Bernard? How is his relationship with Ender? Bernard is Enders enemy, because Graff told everyone that Ender was the best. So Bernard started bullying Ender on the spaceship so he broke Bernard arm, on accident, and now ender is on his own and Bernard is forming a gang.

Monday 23/5: Effective Technique in Ender's Game

1. Name one technique you feel the author successfully utilized in the first 4 chapters. In one sentence say what the technique is and how it is successfully used in the book. One technique that the author uses in the first four chapters is  dialogue. In this dialogue we find out what ender is going to do but we have to read to see how he reacts in the situation
2. Find at least two examples of this technique in different chapters. (P1)   
3. Discuss how the author is using the technique in the section where you find it and why it is important to the novel. (You can not say 'he uses it to make the section interesting'.)

class notes 23/5/11

techniques used in enders game:

• 3rd person (all knowing)
• multiple perspectives 
• dramatic irony
• description - scarce
• action? - develop characters 

(soft science fiction is more of a story)

20/5/11 Class notes

the chapter headings are:
one word, to the point and ts foreshadowing

people in the dialog at the beginnings of the chapters is Graff and commander sanders

ironic: its ironic because he is being chosen because he is violent

his main reservations are that he wants to stay with their family and he wont be able to see them for many years.

antagonist: the bad guy(peter), shows that he loves ender but doesnt want to show it infrount of valentine and ender

Chapter 3 Graff

Chapter 3  Graff

1. (19) What does Ender get chosen for in the end? Why does he get picked? he got chosen because of what he did after the monitor was taken off (beaten up another 6 year old) and why he did it
2. What reservations does Ender have? he doesnt want to go because he doesnt want to leave valentine behind and when he gets back she will be a grown woman and may not love ender like she does now
3. (22) What does the soldier say about religion and large families? So is this a religious or secular society? Why? Religion helps keep large families alive and allows people to have more kids, thats why they were able to have Ender. In this book they are a secular society because they are only allowed to have 2 kids. 
4. What does ‘Third’ mean? Why is this such a big deal? Ender got the nickname "third" because he is the third child in the family and his parents did not want him
5. (22) What do we learn about the ‘society’ what countries on earth make it up? ??????
6. What big decision does Ender have to make? What are the reasons against it/for it? What does he decide? Why? What would you decide? The decision that ender has to make is if he wants to go to battle school and become a military commander or stay at his home with his family, mainly Vanentine. He didn't want to leave because when he left, valentine would be an adult and may not love him and for was that he didnt have to go to school to face the gang or peter anymore. he decides to go. i would  also go because of all the experience.

Chapter 2 Peter

Chapter 2  Peter

1. (9) Who are speaking at the beginning of the chapter again? The people monitoring his monitor
2. From what these voices say what can we speculate the ‘monitor’ allowed these people to do with Ender? it allowed them to hear and see what he heard and saw "You live inside somebodys body for a few years, you get used to it"
3. How do the soldiers react to Ender attacking the bully? they thought that he was very rough on the boy that he attacked
4. What effect do the soldiers admit that they had on Ender’s brother Peter? they think that peter will now bully ender now that he doesnt have his monitor
5. What voice do we switch into when the soldiers section of the text is through? we change into much longer sentences no not as formal 
6. (10) What is Ender’s sister’s name and what is implied by her name? his sisters name is valentine that implies that her parents thought she would be love caring and compassion (which she is in the book
7. What are the two sides of Peter? the nice side when he is in front of his parents and the agro side when he is just with ender and valentine
8. (11) What do we learn about the greater world from the description of the game that Peter forces Ender to play called Buggers vs. Astronauts? we learn that the buggers quit easily and that the humans went to war with them
9. (13) What informatioin does Valentine have that she uses to keep Peter under control? she says to him that if he kills them she has a letter in the library that they will open if they are killed and that it would be suspicious if they were both killed
10. (15) Who tells the Enders to have 3 children? What does this tell us about the power of the government? the government told the wiggins to have 2 children because peter was to rough and valentine was to mild and ender would be perfect. this shows that the government has a lot of power over the family
11. What does Ender do at the end of the chapter? What emotional state is he in? Why? ender feels sad because peter tells him that he loves him and that he kows how he feels

setting

Science fictions settings:
Some settings in ender's game are space/ battle school(beginning/middle), earth(beginning), war(middle/end), wiggin home beginning), enders schoolon earth (beginning), battle rooms(beginning), fantasy game(beginning), north carilina(beginning), other planets (end), futuristic technology(beginning,[monitors])

settings that may not be science fiction would be totally based on earth and in the past or present

Why does setting matter (novel/fiction)
info, genre

Chapter 1 Notes

Chapter 1  Third

1. (pg1) Strange that the first chapter is called ‘Third’ Irony- 
2. What can you tell about the story through the use of two different fonts? (Its all dialog so its people talking) two different perspectives that may come together. 
3. What person is the narrative told in? The story is told in 3rd person.
4. We learn about a ‘special’ family.  
5. What is the goal of the speakers at the start of the book?
6. What are they watching and what do they decide about their subject? What type of irony is used by the audience having more information than the main character?
7. What is interesting about the surname of the title character? What does it say about his role in the story?
8. What perspective is the narration for the other section of the opening chapter (not the starting bit)?
9. “Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.” (2) What is a possible central theme of the book?
10. What does the title ‘Monitor’ represent to the other boys?
11. (5) What connotations does Ender being a ‘third’ have ?
12. What does Ender know about his intelligence in regards to the other boys?
13. (7) What does Ender do to the bullies?
14. The narrator is sympathetic to Ender: ‘This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he would not be the unhappiest at the end.’
15. (8) While Ender seems emotionally stable on the exterior how would you describe his emotional state on the inside?
16. How has the perspective of the narration changed in this statement: ‘I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away; and I am just like Peter.’ What does this imply about Peter?

My Sci-Fi World

Diary for 8/5/2211

At 6:05 mum walked into my room and with my breakfast ready to be opened and my iPhone 204 because I had an excursion to mars today so if you got lost I could call her and ask her to pick me up in the car and bring me back to earth.

When I got down stairs I went to the fridge and got out some milk to have with my weet- bix. When I put my breakfast in the super wave for it to be expanded. I teleported into the internet and walked to real google to go onto my English teachers realpage to see what my homework was for the night so he could do it on his iPhone while he was being teleported to Mars.

On the way to school our teleporter on our car had broken so we had to fly to school for a change. When we got to school I met up with my friends on the chapel roof before school to talk about how boring the excursion to mars will be today and how we would much prefer to go to Jupiter 2 to see the wildlife. . After I teleported to mars we got to got to McDonalds and the exit of the teleporter. Then we went to the museum about the first mars landing in 2101. Then we were allowed to go outside with our space suits . So on the way home I did my English story and then got home and played some virtual PlayStation and the had some takeaway from the moon and went to bed at 10:00 after getting killed in world of war craft.

Researching the Science Fiction Genre

Science Fiction Genre

Research Assignment

1.    Origins (100words)

Trace the development of the sci-fi genre. Explain where the genre came from. What did it grow from? Consider the role of other genres which had a direct or indirect influence on the development of sci-fi? Examples to consider include: westerns, horror, the heroes’ journey, other? 

I believe that Sci-Fi books and movies developed because as the world develops people start believing things about time travel and spaceships that travel at light speed will become reality and about 100 years ago people caught onto the idea and started writing books about things that are not possible yet.

2.    

    Categories (500 words)

Science fiction can be broken up into a number of sub-categories. Identify and explain the various sub-categories and the features which make each distinguishable. Give examples of texts you are familiar with which may represent these sub-categories.

One of the science fiction categories is fantasy. Some of the features of a fantasy story may include places or names that are not known to this world and are often created by the author There have been many famous books and movies made about fantasy stories one of the most famous fantasy stories is Lord of The Rings. This book was first published in 1954 and later made into a a movie series.

Another category of science fiction is space travel. Some of the main features that time travel stories should be set in the future with big spaceships. The first ever space travel movie was made in 1901 this was a Sci-Fi and it was about going to the moon which only 70 years later became true. This really makes you think about what we might be doing in 70 years and how far we may have come.
Time travel was also another sub-category of sci-fi. The first book written about time travel was in 1885 but it later really caught on in the mid 1900's. Some of the features that make this type of science fiction distinguishable is that it, in almost of all the books, is set in the future and the people travel in time
Another big sub-category of science fiction is the super hero genre. Some of the main features that make this book distinguishable to the superhero genre is that the characters have amazing powers or skills, they also usually have a very distinguishable costume that they wear. There is also usually a back story as to how the superhero acquired his powers and they usually have a safe house or a base where they stay. The first ever comic that was published about a superhero was in 1939 and it was called "superman". That has later been into many movies, one being out done by the other. This comic has also led to other comics such as "BatMan" SuperWoman" and "Spiderman".

3.  

           Conventions (200 words)

Explain in detail the conventions of the science fiction genre. The conventions should also include those frequently borrowed from other genres ie the heroic journey, horror, etc.

Some Conventions of the science fiction or what they do to make it science fiction would be, that they have h=guns that we do not have yet such as laser guns and force fields. At this time we do not have that technology so that makes it science fiction.
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