Demosthenes

Demosthenes wanted the Greek Republic to have its own government and it's independence. He opposed the reign of king Philip II and lead a revolt against Alexander the Great and was hunted down by Alexander the Greats successor in that area Antipater and committed suicide rather than being captured.
Demosthenes was a Greek sates man and he was a radical.

Ender

calculative, Empathetic caring violent

Q's

1. What person is the narrative told in? 3rd
2. What is a 'Third'? A third is a third child in a family
3. What game does Peter want to play with Ender? he wants to play Astronauts and buggers
4. What are two reasons why Ender doesn't want to go to battle school? He doesn't want to leave Valentine for Peter, He doesn't want to leave his parents
5. What type of irony is used when the audience knows more than the characters? It is Dramatic Irony
6. How does Graff treat Ender when he first gets to battle school? he treats him as if he is god over the other children and Ender will be better then them
7. Who is Ender's room leader at battle school? Bonzo
8. What happens when Ender goes to the games room for the first time? He is told not to fight but to do nothing at all and so he just shoots himself and lets the game end with his team losing
9. Who is Bernard and what is Ender's relationship to him? Bernard is the person who started bullying Ender on the flight up to battle school and Ender breaks his arm, then they become friends after they 1st get the lasers
10. What role is Alai voted in to? What role does he now play for the group? Alai is the leader of the Launchies he acts as a bridges between Enders group and Bernard's Group
11. What mistake does Ender make immediately upon joining Salamander Army? He befriends an outcast like himself
    What happens to Ender in the battle against Condor that gets him recognition? He becomes the top of the rank of all the other children because he hadn't shot and hadn't been eliminated or disabled and he hadn't been hit

Wed 25/5: Characterisation

What are the most important elements of characterisation?
The important elements of characterisation are, thoughts, dialogue, action or a description from a narrator or one of the other characters how other characters react to that characters Persona ( who they are.... readers reactions) effect on others names personality, background, . Dialogue because you can understand how some people are by the way that they speak, the characters thoughts are important because they allow you to see into their mind and understand what they are thinking about and relate or get to know what they think about on subjects and why. Description is a major part of novels and characterisation because without description no one will be able to conjure up an idea or how the character looks in their mind because they don't have any idea how they will look. (Literal)
Why is characterisation important? (figurative = greater connection(
Create connection of character
add interest to the to the story
insight into why things happen
add depth to story
adds realism to the plot making it more 'real'

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

Multiple Perspectives, Dramatic Irony, Sparce, Action, Dialogue, Develop characters,

1. He uses action as a Character development because you get to see what the people feel and how they think about what they have done and it develops them to make choices in the future.
2. When he fights Stilston it shows that Ender doesn't want to fight people but has to and on that same bit it shows that Graff wants Ender to fight and shows a positive reaction to the action. When Ender fights Bonzo it shows that he really doesn't like fighting because it makes him more like his brother Peter and it gives greater depth into Enders thoughts and feelings about who he is and who he thinks he is. Quote 1 
3. It is important to the novel because the novel is soft science fiction he needs to develop the characters and with the action he develops Ender and he develops Graff by giving their feelings meaning and it allows the audience which is young and mostly adolescent will develop the characters in a more interesting way other than telling them what happened in paragraphs so it draws people in.

Chapter 4

1. (27) How do the updates from the soldiers at the start of the chapter represent dramatic irony?
2. The update at the start represent Irony because they wanted him to be compassionate but in the end they want him to not be compassionate but like Peter
3. (28) How do we know that this society is capitalistic?
4. some one asked for a raise which is only available in a capitalistic society
5. (29) Is there censorship? If so, how do you know?
6. Yes because he thinks that he should run to the camera and yell that he loves Valentine but thinks that it will be censored
7. (31) What does Ender do while Graff is speaking to the boys? How does he react to Ender? Why does he react this way?
8. He laughs at what way round Graff is standing there, he gives Ender praise which isn't good praise because he makes Ender stand out, he wants Ender to fend for himself
9. (35) How does Graff view humans?
10. Graff Views humans as tools to save the world
11. (36) What does Graff say about ‘doing bad things’ as soldiers?
12. Graff says that 
13. What role has Ender been given for the survival of the human species?
14. Ender has been given the role to command the fleet to save the human planet from destruction from the buggers

Chapter 3

1. 19) What does Ender get chosen for in the end? Why does he get picked?
2. Ender is picked for battle school because he is able to fight a bully and beat up people and still be compassionate
3. What reservations does Ender have?
4. He was worried what Peter would do to his sister Valentine
5. (22) What does the soldier say about religion and large families? So is this a religious or secular society? Why?
6. Religion is frowned upon and large families because of population issues
7. What does ‘Third’ mean? Why is this such a big deal?
8. Third means that you are the third child because of the population issues in which the first child has no taxes and less school feas the second one has no tax and more than a first school feas but a third has to pay taxes and has to pay proper school feas
9. (22) What do we learn about the ‘society’ what countries on earth make it up?
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11. 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?
12. Ender has to decide weather to go to Battle school or stay at home. He he decides to go to battle school. I wouldn't know what to pick because I am not in the same situation as Ender. Reasons for are save the Earth, Defeat the Buggers and to leave Peter. Against; Leave Valentine. He wanted to save the earth that is why he wanted to go to Battle School

from normal to teacher geek

Student Speak       Literature speak (Geek Teacher)
Bad Guy  -> Antagonist
Good Guy -> Protagonist Characterisation (3rd person Omniscient)
Speaks -> Dialogue

Round people are real and emotional
Flat people are just there but never stay then leave

Form (Author Techniques)

Chapter 2

1. Colonel Graff Major Sanders
2. The monitor allows these people to understand his feelings and his inner mind.
3. Their a juxtaposed views on Ender attacking the bully saying that "he was thorough. He didn't just beat him, he beat him deep." The other reacts with distaste and hatred saying that he could go insane.
4. That they were the cause that began Peter's violent stage and that he believed that he had failed.
5. Valentine this suggests a peaceful nature with after the Saint Valentine or Valentines day
6. The two sides described by Ender is the nice side of Peter who is shown to their parents and the dangerous that he only shows Peter and Valentine
7. That there was a great war against aliens called Buggers and that it has been propaganda placed on the humans winning
8. Valentine uses the knowledge that she will tell their parents about what Peter does to Ender
9. The government told his parents to have 3 children this describes the government power in able to control the lives of all the citizens that they control with absolute power
10. Ender is confused about the events of his brother and what did he actually mean because he has conflicted ideas on emotionally stable he is.

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Chapter 1  Third (IRONY the title is IRONIC!!!!)

• (pg1) Strange that the first chapter is called ‘Third’, it is Ironic!
• What can you tell about the story through the use of two different fonts? 1st part is all Dialog, there is two different perspectives.
• What person is the narrative told in?

3rd

• we learn about a 'special' family
• What is the goal of the speakers at the start of the book?
• 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?
• What is interesting about the surname of the title character? What does it say about his role in the story?
• What perspective is the narration for the other section of the opening chapter (not the starting bit)?
• “Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.” (2) What is a possible central theme of the book?
• What does the title ‘Monitor’ represent to the other boys?
• (5) What connotations does Ender being a ‘third’ have ?
• What does Ender know about his intelligence in regards to the other boys?
• (7) What does Ender do to the bullies?
• 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.’
• (8) While Ender seems emotionally stable on the exterior how would you describe his emotional state on the inside?
• 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?

SCi fi my life

I woke up one morning in my bed which at 6 AM my personal clock bleeped and when I had completely woken up and got out of my bed and my shutters opened fully and the lights came on automatically. when I went to my wardrobe my school clothes were handed to me. I went down stairs but I was the only one awake, I had to go to school early because my cadets had a practice session for the Galactic Patrol day. I had scrambled eggs from the chickens on our lawn which when they lay anywhere the eggs get picked up by a robotic hand and get placed in the egg dispenser. I got the light train to my school and started warming up waiting for my Sargent and the Q's to get here to unlock the cubboard so we can get and use the rifles for when the Lensman comes and inspects out uniform and kit. I get a working rifle but it has no battery and so cannot be used. We train till 8:00 and then we return the gun and every one goes off to class. After class I take the Light train back to my house 3 continents away from my school and when I get home I go on my Computer to finish my Home work when my mum comes home and I told her how Cadet practice went. after work I played some WW3 Total war as the british and conquere plus destroy all of the americas while fighting the French on the moon.

Sci Fi

Origins

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? (100words)

 Sci-fi originates from the late middle ages when people started to understand the world around them and not just to speculate or to create gods to give meaning to things. Sci-Fi grew from the scientific revolutions of people like Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton with Astronomy physics and Mathematics which allowed the people a place to think and to have fun with science. All of the action books had an indirect influence on sci-fi because those action adventure hero's travelled to new places and discovered new things all the while there being action while the only main difference is that sci-fi is out of this world (literally) most of the time or in undiscovered places on the earth that people don't know existed (even though they don't)  while action adventure and heroes' journeys mainly stay on earth in places that are already discovered. (143 Words)

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    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.

The main genres of Sci-fi are listed below i will go into more detail at each one;
Themes related to science, technology, space and the future, as well as characteristic plots or settings include:

• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction Mainly focusses on what could have happened if the cold war had gone nuclear and the earth had been completely wiped out but humans survived and these books are mainly on the stories of thoes humans can also mean the ability of man to survive in a post zombie age. But there is a difference between Apocolyptic and post-apocolyptic, Apoclyptic is when they are trying to live with the apocolypse while Post apocolypse Post apocolypse is how they live after the apocolypse
• Biopunk mainly uses elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, Japanese anime, and post-modernist prose to describe the nihilistic, underground side of the biotech society.
• Dying Earth science fiction is mainly about if earth was a dying planet and how Humans have to excape earth some how before it died trajically, like if there was a supernova too close for humans to survive or a black hole are the main dying earth death abilities
• Military science fiction is where it is about using space travel to fly around the world but it is about colonisation and war like a Galactic war or Universe wars. E.G. Lensman series and the Foundation series
• Steampunk is usually about the time when they just invented steam and there are all these crazy contraptions running off steam like steam Space ships and steam armour or steam robots
• Time travel is about time travel through the universe like doctor who but is verry broard and could mean any thing from sight seeing to battling galactic wars. E.g. Doctor who
• Space colonization is mainly about some race colonising the stars and their encounters in thoes stars which hampers their colonisation or about the colonies.
• Space opera is the Sci-fi version of love novells and romance novels
• Spy-fi Is like James bond except inter plannetary and cam range from Hitman kind of things to james bond
• Superheroes self explatnitary really but like Superman Aqua man, wonder woman and all nof thoes

           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

 

Science fiction usually follows a single characture or groups of people in their quest and their journey to the stars. It is mainly just fantasy, if your mind allows it and it has some thing to do with technology it can be considered Science Fiction. The difference between science fiction and Fantasy conventions is that Fantasy uses Spells, Witchcraft, Alchemy, Sorcery e.t.c while Science Fiction is Technology based. The technological base of Sci fi is the reason that it is different to other genres because most genres used past or present while Sci fi looks into the future. The writters and producer, creationists of Sci fi use their imagination 90% is made up hardly any is researched so you can litterally let your mind drift in thoughts and ideas no matter how impossible they may be.