Today we are going to take a quiz over PART 1 of Fahrenheit 451. Then we will read the next 10 pages of the book, and finally write summaries for those 10 pages.
Remember you have a vocabulary quiz on Thursday.
We will play vocabulary charades on Wednesday. Good luck!
Today we are going to write sentences with the words of the day (Jargon, Centrifuge), read the next 10 pages of Fahrenheit 451, and write summaries of those pages.
Today we are going to write sentences with the next two vocabulary words - Illuminate
Trajectory -, read the next 10 pages of Fahrenheit 451, and write a summary of those pages.
Today - we are going to review vocabulary words. Write sentences with the first two. Read the next 10 pages of Fahrenheit 451 and then write a summary of what we read.
HW: To listen to Fahrenheit 451 tonight up to were we are in the book.
Today, you will turn in the 1st drafts of your short stories and we will being UNIT II - Fahrenheit 451. Over the next few weeks we will revise your stories, work on grammar and grammar projects, read, and write reading logs.
For every 10 pages you will be posted on your blog.
THE READING LOG:
A short synopsis of the action and character development (what happened who was involved? Did anyone change? )
Your interpretation of the significant events occurring in these pages (how were these pages important to the development of the story?)
Noteworthy figurative language and other literary elements (metaphors, similes, symbols, irony?)
Vocabulary—unfamiliar words (Look up the words you do not know!!!!)
Unit
Learning goal:Students will be able to write a 1-2 page essay citing
textual evidence to support an analysis of Fahrenheit
451 as a cautionary tale.
Scale/Rubric
relating to learning goal:
4 – The student can cite textual evidence to support an
analysis of Fahrenheit 451 as a
cautionary tale and connect the analysis to real world problems.
3 – The student can cite textual evidence to support an
analysis of Fahrenheit 451 as a
cautionary tale.
2 – With some direction/help from the teacher the student
can cite textual evidence to support an analysis of Fahrenheit 451 as a cautionary tale
1 – Even with help from the teacher the student is unable
to cite textual evidence to support an analysis of Fahrenheit 451 as a cautionary tale.
Essential Questions:
How is Fahrenheit 451 a cautionary tale?Cautionary against what?
Is
Technology taking over our lives?
What is
your connection to television?
Why do
people read or tell stories?
What is
censorship and how does it appear in the world?
Why is it
important to fight against censorship?
Is our
nation reading less?
How do we
convey complex thoughts or emotions?
What if
books were illegal?What if music became
illegal?
Does the
white clown love you?
Objectives: At the end of the book students will be able to
1) Outline the plot according the six elements of plot. Give at least three
events for the rising action and falling action.
2) Be able to discuss the importance of the following characters:
Montag
Clarisse
Beatty
Mrs. Phelps
Black
Stoneman
Faber
Granger
Mildred
The Mechanical Hound
3) Be able to explain and give at least three examples of scenes that fit the
following themes:
The Dangers of Censorship
The Dangers of Ignorance
The search for Identity
How censorship and mass media can be used to control people
The importance of independent thought and creativity
4) List two foreshadows
5) List four allusions and discuss why these allusions are important to the
book
6) List the point of view
7) List the setting
8) Discuss How Montag is a dynamic character
9) Discuss the meaning of the following images/symbols
10) List and explain four metaphors and/or similes. What is being compared?
What is important about the comparison?
11) Discuss “Dover Beach” – How is it used? What are the results?
12) Discuss Montag’s relationship with Mildred. Is it a typical relationship in
this society? If so what does this say about this society?
13) Discuss conversation in this society.
14) Discuss what the schools are like in this society. Why is this important?
15) How many Atomic Wars have taken place since 1990? What does this say about
this society?
16) Discuss the war that is always alluded to in the background of the book.
17) Why is another man killed in Montag’s place? What does this represent?
18) What’s important the significance of the following quote, who says it?: “Go
home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in
a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the
dozen abortions you’ve hand and your children who hate your guts…”
19) What do you make of Beatty’s ability to quote literature and destroy books?
20) What do you make of Beatty’s death? Did he want to die or did he
underestimate Montag? Explain.
21) Are people really happy in this world? Explain.
22) Describe Montag in the beginning of the book. How does he feel about his
job?
23) The jets that fly overhead all the time foreshadow what? What things do
they represent?
24) Describe the woman who burns herself up with her books. What does she
represent? What does she killed herself? How does she change Montag?
25) List some religious allusions. What are these important?
26) Explain the quote: “She didn’t what to know how a thing was done, but why?”
Who does this quote refer to? What does it mean?
27) Why don’t women want children in this society? How are the children raised?
28) Why does Beatty make Montag burn his house?
29) Why does Montag plant a book at Black’s house?
30) How are books being saved?
31) Does the novel end with hope? Explain.
32) How does the dark ages connect with Fahrenheit 451.
Tomorrow, we are going to spend at least 15 minutes working on your notes cards (for tomorrow's Short Story Test), and then spend the rest of class working on your stories.
The next draft of your short stories is due on Friday!
I'll be making notes on your stories as you write. Good luck!