Lesson Objective

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Lesson Objective

• To discuss issues surrounding time travel in
  literature.

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Why is time travel such a popular topic?

• Consider all of these time travel related films

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What can science fiction writers do that other
writers cannot?
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The Butterfly Effect
Click here to watch how Homer deals with the
Butterfly Effect.

• In The Sound of Thunder we will learn that
  travelling through time can be dangerous. The
  characters in the story realise how they impact
  nature when one of the hunters steps on a
  butterfly. Through the destruction of one small
  element of the ecosystem, the future was changed.

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TASK

• As a class, we are going to read through The
  Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury.

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Plenary

• How is time travel presented within The Sound of
  Thunder?
• What message do you think Bradbury was trying to
  make?