• Science Fiction is searching into the unknown.  Donna E. Norton states that "Science fiction stories have inspired children to become scientists and writers."  (1999)
• Science Fiction stories are mainly based on future events and space.  Some examples are Star Wars, and Star Trek.
• Teachers can use science fiction novels to springboard into more indepth thinking. 
• Integretating science and science fiction in very helpful to children.
• Science fiction can encourage students to see things different, Norton also says "science fiction stories...can inspire childre to create their own model cities." (1999)
• Other interesting books The Giver by Lois Lowry, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleline L'Engle, The Transal Saga by Gary Paulsen

• Building up the plot, kind of like a ladder, you keep climbing and then you are at the top.
• A series of events that engage the reader
• a figure of speech in which a series of phrases or sentences is arranged in ascending order of rhetorical forcefulness  
• climax. (2008). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved October 13, 2008, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/climax

• the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel.
  denouement. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved October 13, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/denouement
• As I researched this word, which I had never heard of, I came to the conclusion that it is the end of the story.  It has the resolution and the rest of the story.

 The interaction between humans and aliens.

Future stories by some of the top science fiction authors.

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