• Inspires children to become scientists and writers 
• Based on science fiction and can be used as a springboard for creative thinking, critical thinking, and reinforcement of activities
• Relates scientific principles and technology and the impacts of technological changes
• Closely related and connected to social studies
• Asks the question 'what if?'

           Examples of Science Fiction topics:
              Time travel, alien encounters, farthest reaches of 
              human imagination

              Examples of Science Fiction books:
              Shadow Children Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
              Star Wars books

Denoument
      Aka The Falling Action

• Resolution of a conflict
• Follows the climax
• Provides an outcome to the plot

      Example:
            In the book Among the Free, all the characters setting
            around the table talking about the future government.

Climax

• Turning point in the story when the conflict is the most intense

      Example:
             In the book Among the Betrayed the the main character
             Nina and the other third children escape the jail they are
             captured in

Dialouge

• Conversation between people in a literary work
• Speech of characters in a drama
• Genre dialouge is when its a debate on an  issue or idea
• The talking parts of a book

      Example:
             In the book Knots on a Counting Rope, the grandfather and
             grandson are talking about the story of the grandson's life.