English

Grade 9
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Speculative fiction is a broad category of 
fiction encompassing genres with certain
elements that do not exist in the real world,
often in the context of supernatural, futuristic
or other imaginative themes.[1] These include,
but are not limited to, science fiction, horror,
alternate history, utopian, dystopian,
supernatural……

What is Sci-Fi?
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The Fun They
Had
Isaac Asimov
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Isaac Asimov
∞ He was an American writer and professor of
biochemistry at Boston University. He is
known for his works of science fiction and
popular science. He was the Grand Master of
the Science Fiction Writers of America, the
founder of robot ethics, and one of the world’s
most prolific authors of fiction.
 Schools of Future
Learning through computers

Robotic / Mechanical Teacher Virtual Classroom

Moving E-Text
 Margie Tommy
11 years old 13 years old
…. who live in the future where they learn from E-texts.
They followed E-
learning which
customises lessons
for them and teaches
them using a
computer screen…
Home Work Slot The system has slots
for submitting
homework and it
calculates their grade
instantly….
 One day,
Tommy finds
an old book
in the attic.
It is different from what Tommy
and Margie consider as books
because it is printed on paper and
bound together. Margie and Tommy
feel that their television screen is
much better than the old book
which can be discarded when you
are done reading..
And a television
screen can store E-learnin
g
millions of books
and they can reread
them as many times
as they want.
School? What Margie doesn’t like the
is there to
write about
book very much because
school? I hate
school.
it is about schools. She
doesn’t like her school
because of her
mechanical teacher.
She doesn’t like
geography and the
mechanical
teachers keeps
giving her test after
test in geography
Margie’s dismal performance
made her mother call the County
Inspector once. The County
Inspector reduced the speed of
the geography sector as it was
set for the higher level. Margie
had hoped that he would not
know how to repair it. The
County Inspector was nice to
her. More than the lessons
Margie hated the home work slot
(to be presented in punch codes)
As Margie hates school, she
questions Tommy why someone
writes about school…
Tommy with superior tone explains
that the schools of old were very
different from the schools they have
now.
 e r s w ho
e te a ch
a y s , t h s c h o ol
t ho s ed e n . T he
In h e r e m i l d i n g
w u
taught s a special b ame to
e l f w a g i rls c e
its a n d e s a m
re b o ys d ie d th
whe t h e y stu d
y a n d n d e re
stud a rg ie wo ha v e s uch
i n g s . M c o u l d t
th m a n f f e re n
et h er a g e o f di
w h o w l ed r.
id e k n p u t e
aw e a c om
c t s li k
su b je
 o t h er
h e r m
, l i k es v e r y
Sh e h a t e g
v e s t c h in
belie eeded tea
h i ld n t h e ir
c i n g t o
c o r d
ac .. . io u s
. . u r
needs is now c in
a rg ie h o o l s
M h e sc
o u t t
a b
p a s t.
the
She and Tommy are
still reading from
the book when
Margie’s mother
interrupts them. She
reminds them that it
is time for their
virtual classes.
.
Margie goes back to her
school room which is
next her bedroom. The
mechanical teacher was
already lit up and asks
her to place her
arithmetic assignment in
the slot.
Margie was thinking
about the old
schools. She was
thinking about the
fun they had.
 Story
Analysis….
a u th o r ’s m e s sage is The end of the story
T he st the
w a rn i n g a g a in
one of reminds us the theory
n g e r s o f c o m puterized called ‘Conservatism
da
g which
home-schoolin 'which means averse to
e pr iv e s c h il d r en of the change or innovation and
d
e f i ts o f th e p e rsonal holding traditional
be n
tween
interactions be values.
tu d e n t s a n d t e achers,
s
h h e lp th e m develop
whic
social skills.
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