Fahrenheit Unit
Day by Day Schedule
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Censorship Activity Students will try and do research on Ray Bradbury using the internet. Most of the sites will be blocked. We will discuss how the students felt including the frustration that these sites were censored.
Who decides what sites are blocked? What if your news was censored? What if someone else decided what you could read and what you couldn’t? Is there ever a time when censoring is appropriate? |
http://www.neabigread.org/books/fahrenheit451/teachersguide02.php
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Writing into the day: What do authors do that make their writing interesting?
Discuss Bradbury Worksheet.
Distribute Fahrenheit 451 books with study guide.
Read first five pages together. Discuss how Bradbury uses literary devices in his work. Refer to Glossary for help. Model this for them. |
Glossary of F451 Terms and Allusions
Assign pages 1-18 “tongue” stop |
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Discuss reading and study guide.
Identify literary terms used in the reading together.
What affect does this have on the reader?
Assign pages 19-36 and identify literary terms for literature circle roles tomorrow. |
F 451 Study Guide questions
Assign pgs. 19-36 |
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Writing into the day: Using a T-chart list some positive and negative affects of the invention of TV.Lit Circle Meeting (15 min.)Discuss the positives and negatives of progress. Telephone, computer, freeways, zippers, etc.Analyze quotations: groups A,B,C will each have a different subject to analyze quotations of Bradbury’s |
Study Guide questions
F.451 Quotations wrksht.
Assign pg. 37-68 (due day 7)Done with Part I |
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Jigsaw Activity: CL
What is censorship? What place has censorship had in our history? What does our constitution say about censoring? What is censored and why?
Group 1: Censorship timeline (timeline software)
Group 2: First Amendment explanation
Group 3: List of Most Banned Books and reasons they are banned.
Group 4: Censoring Music discussion
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TrackStar Investigating Censorship
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Jigsaw Activity: CL
Meet with other experts |
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Present Jigsaw findings to own group
Discuss Book One Readings due today
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Assign Reaction Paper
Assign pgs. 69-88 |
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Review Literary Terms Write 10 of your own
Discuss reading and study questions.
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Assign. pgs. 88-95
Study Guide Part II |
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Take literary term quiz.
Discuss why books are good according to Faber.
Discuss reading due for today. Assign partners for fishbowl discussion for Day 11.
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Literary Term Quiz
Why Books are good Faber discussion sheet
Study Guide Part II
Assign pgs. 95-110 end of part II(due day 11) Fishbowl Discussion |
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Librarian Guest Speaker (How we choose library materials) |
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Fishbowl discussion (15 min.)
Discuss Why books are bad according to Beatty.
Writing out of the Day? Do you see any parallels in today’s world? Are the predictions Bradbury made in 1953 (copyright) accurate or not? Are we in danger censoring ourselves in the future? Why or why not? Use recent history to support your opinion.
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Why books are bad Beatty discussion sheet Assign pgs. 113-125 with fishbowl |
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Fishbowl II discussion(15 min.)
CL: Using inspiration software, take an invention and construct a cause/effect chart showing positive and negative effects of that invention.
Assign reading and SG |
Causal Chain of an Invention using Inspiration Software.
Assign pgs. 126-173 End of Book (Day 14) |
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CL: Continue Progress Chart (due today)
Time to read and catch up on Study Guide
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Discuss ending of the book and final study guide questions
Read Afterword and Coda together and discuss.
Writing out of the day: Why do you think someone as educated and well-read and intelligent as Beatty decided the censored world was the right choice? |
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Discuss writing out of the day.
Review for objective test by creating a study guide together in class.
Present Performance Task: Save the Library |
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Take Objective Test |
Objective Test |
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Group work on Save the Library |
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Group work on Save the Library |
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Group work on Save the Library |
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Group work on Save the Library |
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Presentations |
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Presentations |
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