Starship Troopers | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Bugs - They are intelligent arthropods that happen to look like giant spiders.

Camp Arthur Currie - One of two Terran Federation's Mobile Infantry recruit training camps, it is located in the northern prairies of North America.

History and Moral Philosophy (H&MP) - This is a required, but ungraded, high school course taught by a seemingly unconcerned disabled veteran, Mr. Dubois.

Klendathu - The home planet of the space aliens who destroy Buenos Aires at the start of the "Bug War."

The Mobile Infantry - The crack fighting force of the Terran Federation.