Wednesday, March 19, 2014

We're English 10 Nerds and Loving It: March 19, 2014

Focus: What does our future look like, according to Bradbury, and what new words do we need to learn to understand Fahrenheit 451?

1. Warming up: Watching the "Best Vacation Ever" and reading "Texting Your Teens to Dinner"
  • As you watch and read, try to make at least one specific connection to the characters and society of F451.
  • In your opinion, can technology be a good way to bring your family together?  Or does it create distance?

2. Introducing the first 15 F451 words and entering them in quizlet.com; then pelting each other with vocabulary snowballs for words 1-15 in F451

(Winner, winner, chicken dinner--you get an extra point on Friday's vocabulary quiz)

3. Taking some good old fashioned quality time to read F451 aloud together and ask questions

HW:
1. For tomorrow, please prepare for fishbowl discussion by finishing pages 63-80 in Fahrenheit 451 and completing the other side of your yellow observation chart/reading journal.

2. Remember that this Friday will be your quiz over words 1-15; start studying tonight.

3. Start thinking about which option you're going to take for Friday reading time; if you want to start reading your banned/dystopian novel on Friday, go ahead and bring it along with your signed proposal.

4 comments:

  1. "He knew he could not face Beatty again" p 67. Why does he have so much fear for Beatty. Is there a past between them that we don't know about?

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  2. What do you think Montag will uncover while reading?

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  3. "The old man looked as if he had not out of the house in years." p 80 What does Faber have to fear? Is someone after him? Does he know something that everyone else does not?

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  4. Is happiness more important than ethic in this society?

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