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Learning Intention: To predict the subject and thematic concerns of our Origin Text: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Success Criteria:
I can use visual cues to make predictions regarding subject matter, context, and themes about our prescribed text.
I can infer the thematic concerns of our text through the implied meaning behind visual symbols.
Prediction Activity:
Prediction Activity:
Below are some book covers of our origin text. Answer the questions below.
Imagery
What images do you see? What hints do they reveal about the novel's subject matter or themes?
What genre is the novel? How do you know?
Comment on the use of colour, why would the cover artist choose these covers?
Which one is more effective of the three? Justify you reasoning.
Titles:
From the title, what do you predict will happen in the story?
Why would the author create such a title?
Comment on the different styles of font used for all three, why would the artist select that particular font- for what possible themes could it be alluding? Which is the most effective? Justify.
Purpose:
Why would an author decide to write about androids?
What possible contextual influences could be impacting their decision?
What would be the point of reading the book- its purpose?
Who is the potential audience/ reader for this book?
Creative license
Creative license
Narrative Prediction Activity
Narrative Prediction Activity
Imagine you are tasked to write the blurb for this book, but unfortunately, the publishers have only sent you the cover image. Select one of the cover images, and using creative licence, Write a "possible paragraph" which predicts the novel's story. Comment on possible characters, their names, when and where the novel is set. Try to sell me the story by making it seem as tense and as interesting as possible.
Study skill: Enduring Understanding
Study skill: Enduring Understanding
· Big Ideas: The students will understand that…
· Annotation is a helpful tool for active reading
· More careful reading of the text can help a student better understand it
· Predictions can help a reader get involved in the text
· Concepts
· Annotation
V for Vocab
V for Vocab
Vocabulary List
Vocabulary List
Android: A robotic life form designed to look and act like a human.
Bounty Hunter: A person hired to retire (kill) androids.
Chickenhead: A derogatory term for a "Special," referring to individuals with diminished mental faculties.
Colony: A settlement established by humans on another planet.
Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another, a central theme in the novel.
Extinct: Referring to species that no longer exist, highlighting the theme of loss in the story.
Fallout: Radioactive debris resulting from nuclear war, which has devastated Earth.
Fusion: The act of combining individual emotions into a collective experience, particularly in the context of Mercerism.
Hover Car: A flying vehicle used for transportation in the novel's futuristic setting.
Kipple: Useless material that accumulates and seems to reproduce on its own, symbolizing decay and entropy.
Mercerism: A religion in the novel that emphasizes empathy and shared experiences among its followers.
Regular: A person who meets certain IQ requirements and is allowed to reproduce legally.
Special: A person who does not meet IQ requirements, thus restricted from marrying or emigrating.
Vidphone: A device allowing visual communication over distances, similar to modern video calls.
Voigt-Kampff Test: An examination used to determine if an individual is human or android, focusing on their empathetic responses.
Blurb Example
Blurb Example
Blurb example
Blurb example
In a world of Chickenheads, colonies and bounty hunter capitalism, one Android dreams of extinct empathy and other regular kipple. Hell bent on rectifying this, they battle across the Fallout Territories, collecting both Regulars and Specials to establish a Mercerism colony.
Will the colony pass the Voight Kamph test?
Or will it be exterminated via vidphone?
Stay tuned to this week's Hovercar instalment of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Novel
Novel
Learning intention: to engage with literary elements of the novel in order to prepare to adapt them into new mediums.
Novel Basics
Novel Basics
AUTHOR Philip K. Dick
YEAR PUBLISHED 1968
GENRE Science Fiction
PERSPECTIVE AND NARRATOR Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is written from a third person limited omniscient point of view, focusing on the experiences of Rick Deckard and John Isidore.
WHERE THE TITLE COMES FROM:
The main character of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is human Rick Deckard, who has an artificial sheep but wishes he had a real one. The title asks the reader to consider whether androids (robots in human form), too, wish to see themselves reflected in the world around them. The original setting of the novel was 1992, but recently published versions have updated that date to 2021. The novel was loosely adapted in 1982 as the film Blade Runner.
Literary Elements
Literary Elements
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