Agenda
1) Warmup: How do you think the world will end?
2) Read "How the World Was Saved" by Stanislaw Lem
3) Fill in Elements of Stories worksheet
Homework
None
We are certainly not afraid of challenging topics in this class! The warmup was designed to relate to the day's activity, a funny science fiction story in which Trurl the Constructor builds a machine that can create anything beginning with N, and his friend Klapaucius asks it to make "Nothing," and the machine takes him literally and begins destroying the entire universe (so it can create perfect nothingness).
I gave students the option of writing about a related topic, if they found the end of the world upsetting, and a couple of students took me up on it. One clever student write about the beginning of the world instead.
