“There Will Come Soft Rains” Lesson Plans: Setting and Plot

January 25, 2018 By

In the classroom the teacher voice sang, “Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock!” as if it were afraid nobody would. The classroom lay sleeping, the result of boring lesson plans. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. “Seven-nine, answer question time, seven-nine!” In […]

Filed Under: Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction, There Will Come Soft Rains

“The Veldt” Lesson Plans: Conflict Analysis

January 23, 2018 By

“Mr. George, I wish you’d look at “The Veldt” lesson plan. “What’s wrong with it?” “I don’t know.” “Well, then.” “I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it.” “What would a psychologist want with a lesson plan?” “You know very well what he’d want.” […]

Filed Under: Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction, Short Stories, The Veldt

“The Fun They Had” Lesson Plan: Theme and Author’s Purpose

January 18, 2018 By

Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed May 17, 2157, she wrote, “Today, Mr. Tommy found a real lesson plan book!” It was a very old lesson plan book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a first year teacher, his grandfather told him that there was […]

Filed Under: Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction, Short Stories, The Fun They Had