This week, we’re talking about “timey-wimey” stories, specifically Palm Springs (2021).
The film is sometimes available on Netflix, though it isn’t right now. However, there are currently a few copies hosted at Youtube for you to watch for free, like here.
Day 1
I’ll briefly talk about the history of SF stories that play with time, and we’ll go through the vocabulary comprehension questions on the handout linked below, and dig into the discussion questions on the back of the page.
Day 2
We’ll spend our last hour of class working through the Creative Exercise on the handout linked above. Assuming there’s time, at the end of class we’ll share our ideas.
Journaling
For this week’s Journal, let’s play with time. Imagine you found or built a time machine, and are the only person in the world with one. To what place and time (past or future) would you travel if you had a time machine? What would you want to see or do during your trip across time? If there was a possibility of being trapped in the other time, would you be willing to risk it?