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Lesson goals
Lesson goals
Deepen your understanding of topic sentences, the Turing test, and Asimov's three laws by reading about AI
Lesson activities
Lesson activities
Flashcards
Reading Comprehension
Comprehension Exercises
Flashcards
Flashcards
⏰ ~10-15 minutes
👥 Together with classmate(s)
🎯 Reinforce learning and memory recall
You are going to repeat the main contents from the previous lesson (topic sentence, Turing test, Asimov)
Together with a classmate, click the flash cards on the right
Read the question and quiz each other until you know the answers well
Bonus: if done quickly, complete the topic sentence exercise below
Bonus Exercise
Bonus Exercise
🌟 Step 1: Pick a topic
Should schools require students to wear uniforms?
Do video games improve or harm cognitive skills?
Should AI be used to help students learn?
Does fast food contribute to major health problems?
✏️ Step 2: Write a thesis question
Turn your topic into a strong, open-ended question that invites debate.
❓Example thesis question: Do video games improve or harm cognitive skills?
✏️ Step 3: Write a strong thesis statement
Answer your thesis question. For example:
Do video games improve or harm cognitive skills?
Gaming improves cognitive skills by enhancing problem-solving, reaction time, and strategic thinking.
✏️ Step 4: Write a Topic Sentence
Create a topic sentence that supports your thesis. It should introduce a main idea for a body paragraph.
For example: One way video games boost cognitive skills is by improving players’ ability to solve complex problems quickly. Research from … shows that …
Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension
🕒~40 minutes
✍️ Read the short story
🎯Reading Skills
Set in a tightly controlled, post‑apocalyptic society, Valedictorian follows a fiercely brilliant young student whose drive for excellence places her at the center of an unsettling tradition. As she navigates a world divided by a high‑tech barrier and shaped by an uneasy human–AI history, the story explores themes of individuality, pressure, and what it means to choose one’s own path in a constrained future.
🕒~2 lesson and after school
✍️ Watch and Listen
🎯Listening and Discussion Skills
The Time Machine is a foundational work of science fiction that begins with a curious Victorian inventor who proposes an audacious idea: time is simply another dimension one can travel through. Framed by a gathering of skeptical dinner guests, the story follows his bold leap into the distant future, where humanity has transformed in ways both intriguing and unsettling.
https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/wells/timemach/timemach.pdf
Lesson AMF-3 you will continue to read your text and then write a larger, more detailed s
🕒~40 minutes
✍️ Read the short story
🎯Reading Skills
The Defenders is a classic mid‑20th‑century science‑fiction tale set in a future where humans have retreated underground during a devastating nuclear war. On the surface, intelligent robots continue the conflict on humanity’s behalf—or so people believe. When a strange anomaly prompts an expedition to the world above, the truth behind the war, the robots, and humanity’s assumptions begins to unravel.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28767/pg28767-images.html
Comprehension Exercises
Comprehension Exercises
🕒~20 minutes ✍️ Discuss and Write 🎯Reading Skills
Summarise what you have read as a brief paragraph. This is your exit ticket.
If you want a challenge, write your answer as a thesis question, a thesis statement and a topic sentence.
How to write a thesis question and a thesis statement and a topic sentence:
Thesis question: a question about the central issue or subject you want to explore.
Thesis statement: a direct response to your thesis question, summarising your main points.
Topic sentence: an introduction to the paragraph's main focus.
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