MYP3 17-05

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Good Morning

Agenda

1. Homework

2. SOI

3. Soldier Boys

4. Andrew 'Ender' Wiggins

5. Predicting the future?

6. Living in a fish bowl

Statement of Inquiry

Writers of the genre of Science Fiction subvert our notion of space and time and creatively use futuristic settings to explore anxieties about our immediate and future contexts.

Soldier boys - Lost Childhood

In chapter 8 Dink Meeker says the following:

"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't commanders, they don't rule over forty other kids...."

1. What does this say about children and how does it make you feel?

2. Why do you think the government chooses to use children for this purpose?

Soldier boys - Lost Childhood

Ender and the other Battle School recruits are child soldiers, moulded by the adults around them to fight the Buggers.

Sadly the phenomenon of child soldiers is not a literary creation or a dystopian element. It is a horrible reality that afflicts our world today.

Use the Internet to find more information about child soldiers.

This might be a good first website to use:

www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-child-soldiers 

(15-20 minutes, make notes in a document and add your resources)

What is the most shocking thing you have discovered?

Soldier boys - Lost Childhood

Watch this video and answer the following questions.

1. What motivated Beah to write his book?

2. What does he say the life of child soldiers is like?

3. How do adults manipulate children?

4. How did he feel when he was freed? Interpret what this means. 

5. What do you learn about the psychology of child soldiers?

Soldier boys - Lost Childhood

Read this website and watch the video. 

1. Compare and contrast what you learn about Beah's and Chikwanine's experiences with those of the children at Battle School

2. Who is responsible for protecting these children? Who is protecting Ender?

3. What do children lose in war? What does Ender lose in the novel?

Andrew 'Ender' Wiggins

IB Learner Profile Focus

Please update your file on Ender and use those questions to see how the Learner Profile attributes are present within him.

Read on

Try to finish chapter 13

Living in a bowl

How is Ender confined physically?

How is Ender confined metaphorically?

How is Ender confined virtually?

Can science fiction help predict the future?

Please read the following text

Work on this Activity

This is the video