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1. The Post-Human
Age We're In Young
Adult Science
Fiction in the Post-
Human Age
UNIT 1:To Be Human and Humane

2. Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students are able to:
• distinguish the literary uses of language from the non-literary and
understand their uses as well as the formal features and
conventions of literature
• appreciate the cultural and aesthetic diversity of the literatures of
the world.
• situate the texts in the context of the region,nation,and the world
• examine the relationship between text and context

3. Let's Play a Game
Logo quiz, 4 pics 1 word, Guess the Movie

5. LOGO QUIZ

6. LOGO QUIZ
Apple Inc.
● Is an American multinational technology
company that specializes in consumer
electronics,software and online services.
A p p l e

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation
● is a Japanese multinational automobile
manufacturer headquartered in
Minato,Tokyo, Japan.
M i t s u b i s h i

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10. LOGO QUIZ
Motorola, Inc
● Was an American multinational
telecommunications company based in
Schaumburg, Illinois, United States.
M o t o r o l a

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Mercedes-Benz
● Commonly referred to as Mercedes, is a
German luxury automotive brand.
M e r c e d e s - B e n z

13. LOGO QUIZ

14. LOGO QUIZ
Toyota Motor Corporation
● is a Japanese multinational automotive
manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City,
Aichi, Japan.
T o y o t a

16. 4 pics 1 word
P s h s s

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P r o s t h e s i s

18. 4 pics 1 word
D u r

19. 4 pics 1 word
D e n t u r e

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21. 4 pics 1 word
D N A

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m

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A t o m

24. 4 pics 1 word
G d e

25. 4 pics 1 word
G a d g e t

27. Guess the movie

28. Guess the movie

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34. Guess the movie

35. • “Post-human age” means the period in our history which comes
after the era when human beings took center stage. Now, machines
or products of our technology have become more prominent.

36. Science Fiction
• is a genre of fiction in which the stories
often tell about science and technology of
the future.
• It evolved as a response to fantasy.

37. Science Fiction
• Plot creates situations different from those of
both the present day and the known past.
• Texts are often set in the future, in space, on a
different world, or in a different universe or
dimension.

38. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• First novel in English to deal with the possibility that
science can create a monster that can destroy science, and
possibly mankind.
• The blend of Gothic materials and science in this novel
brought the tale of terror clearly into the stream of science
fiction and also gave it a more credible base.

39. Major Themes in Science Fiction
• Space travel to and from other planets
(ie: Star Wars, Star Trek)
• Time travel to the past and future
(ie: Back to the Future)
• Psychological/biological changes to man
brought about by scientific changes
(ie: The Incredible Hulk, Spider Man)

40. Major Themes in Science Fiction
• Supernormal powers/talents
(ie: Superman, Spiderman, Batman)
• Science applied to human relations for constructive or destructive purposes
(ie: Weird Science, Frankenstein)
• Battle with alien life forms
(ie: Signs, The Day the Earth Stood Still, District 9)
• Alternate Universe
(ie: Star Wars)

41. What is Extrapolation?
Extrapolation is when a writer takes a known scientific fact and imagines what
might happen if certain events or circumstances evolve.
For example:
1. Man can build space shuttles.
2. Let’s imagine, man can travel to faraway plan

42. Science Fiction VS. Fantasy
• Science fiction is really based on facts. On the contrary, fantasy is only
imaginary, and not based on facts.
• Fantasy involves things that do not exist in real life. On the other hand, science
fiction is almost related to real things, and based on technology and science.
• Science fiction has its groundings in science and is possible, whereas fantasy has
no grounding in reality, and so is not possible.

43. About the Author

44. Jeffrey S. Kaplan
• is an expert in the young adult genre.
• author, editor, and contributor
• Books
*Teaching Young Adult Literature Today
*Teen Life in the Middle East
*Teen Life in Africa
*Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with
Identity Issues

45. Vocabulary

46. 1. Biotechnology (noun)- the manipulation (as through genetic engineering) of living organisms or their
components to produce useful usually commercial products (such as pest resistant crops, new
bacterial strains, or novel pharmaceuticals). (Merriam-Webster Dictionary,2022)
Example:
US companies lead the world in biotechnology.
2. Cloning (noun)- the aggregate of genetically identical cells or organisms asexually produced by or
from a single progenitor cell or organism.) (Merriam-Webster Dictionary,2022)
Example:
A plant produced by cloning.

47. 3. Lurks-(noun) to be concealed but capable of being discovered. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary,2022)
Example:
What eveil lurks in the hearts of men?
4. Genetic engineering-(noun) the group of applied techniques of genetics and biotechnology used to cut
up and join together genetic material and especially DNA from one or more species of organism and to
introduce the result into organism in order to change one or more of its characteristics(Merriam-Webster
Dictionary,2022)
Example:
The crops were made resistant to disease by genetic engineering.

48. 5. Deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA) (noun)- the part of a living being that carries genetic information.
(English Dictionary, 2022)
Example:
The killer leaves nothing; no DNA, no fingerprints, no witnesses.

49. Featured text:
Young Adult Science Fiction in the Post-
Human Age
by: Jeffrey S. Kaplan

50. • an associate Professor of English at the state University of New
York Plattsburgh
• teaches children’s, young adult, and nineteenth-century literature.
• Fiction writer
Dr. Elaine Ostry

51. • In “Is He Still Human? Are You?’ Young Adult Science Fiction in the Post-human
Age,” researcher Elaine Ostry analyzes science fiction texts, written for young adults,
which deal with the tenets of our new biotechnology age: cloning, genetic
engineering, prolongation of life.
• Ostry concludes that most of these contemporary adolescent fictional texts place
“nurture above nature” and promote a safe and traditional vision of humanity.
• Ostry writes, the potential of biotechnology to change human form is ever present in
young adult literature that recently has seen science fiction come to life.

52. • The once time honored “stuff of science fiction novels”— cloning, genetic
engineering, etc., — is now the everyday realities of young people’s lives.
• Biotechnology can change the human form and mind, and machines can become a
reasonable part of the human body, then the term post-human body or “techno-body”
is a distinct entity.
• Scientific advances have changed the map of young adult literature.
• Science fiction for young adults attempt to mediate the post-human age to young
audiences

53. • Ostry insists, these are all intriguing questions and all indicative of how much young
adult literature has changed dramatically in the last twenty years.
*What are pros and cons of cloning?
*Of what value is the human versus the new,”improved” human?
*And how can young people really know what it means to be fully alive if all
they know are people who have been genitically engineered?

54. Wrap-up

55. • To be specific, this an article review of Ostry’s paper.
• Young adult fiction is the main genre discussed in Ostry’s paper as reviewed by Kaplan.
• Paragraph one summarizes the findings of Ostry’s research.
• Paragraph two contains what Kaplan thinks should also be considered given the findings
of Ostry’s research.
• Paragraph three raises additional questions about the super-class of human beings in
stories young adults read today.

56. • Ostry’s research is about science-fiction which deals with cloning, genetic engineering,
and prolongation of life.
• Ostry raised and investigated these questions in her research:
a. How can young people know what it really means to be fully alive if all they
read in most science fiction are about super-people who were genetically engineered
(techno-humans)?
b. Of what value is the “human” versus the new “improved human”?

57. c. What are the pros and cons of cloning?
d. What does it mean to be human?
• Ostry’s conclusion is that even if fictional text that young people now read have a super-
class of human beings as heroes, most of the contemporary adolescent fictional texts still
place “nurture over nature” and promote a safe and traditional humanity. In other words,
what is important is that how one was brought up is what really matters.

58. References
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Fantasy. Difference Between Similar Terms and Objects.
http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-
between-science-fiction-and-fantasy/.
Taylor, M.L.G., Alonzo, R., & Flores, E.R. (2017).21st Century
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