Fahrenheit+451

"IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN IT was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the  brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world,  the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing  all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.  With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with  the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire  that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He  wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the  flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up  in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning."

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Students, check this page throughout this unit. Activities and journals will all be posted here. [|Click here to download your own copy of the text into Notability.] 

dys·to·pia
noun \(ˌ)dis-ˈtō-pē-ə\ : an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly

__Activity 1: "Dover Beach: __ "The Final Word" poetry activity [|Read the poem here] [|Analysis (Shmoop)] [|More analysis (Every Book and Cranny)]

__Activity 2: Author Study __ Author: [|Ray Bradbury] > Use this link to help with author study below This link will help too: [|click here] for another helpful website. 

__Activity 3: Vocabulary for Part 1: 'The Hearth and the Salamander': __ <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">Use the for 8 of the following words for Part 1: 1. stolid (3) 2. compress (5) 3. subconscious (11) 4. incline (22) 5. olfactory (25) 6. proclivity (33) 7. asylum (33) 8. odious (35) 9. stagnant (43) 10. cacophony (45) 11. feign (50) 12. melancholy (56) 13. nomadic (57) 14. serene (59/107) 15. anonymous (64)

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 30px;">Activity 4: __ <span style="font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 30px;">Activity 5: __ <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">Using 6 separate index cards, write 6 questions (1 per card) from the first section of the book on the front of the card. Write your answers on the back. You should create 2 level-1 questions, 2 level-2 questions, and 2 level-3 questions. Label which level question it is on the front of the card. You may use the questions that you've already written from your notes!

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 30px;">Activity 6: __ <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">Use the <span style="font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;"> <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;"> for 8 words for Part 2 of the novel. Your choice for this section, but your words should be individual to you. Don't share answers!

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 30px;">Activity 7: __

<span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">.

<span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">This is a partner activity; please make sure both names are on the final copy that gets

<span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">turned in. Carefully follow these steps:
 * 1) <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Answer the questions on the first page together. You may need to use a dictionary for some questions.
 * 2) <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif;">Each of you should read one of the two articles and fill out the chart at the end. Be prepared to discuss your findings to the class.
 * 3) <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif;">You have one class period to complete this activity. Stay on task!

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 30px;">Activity 8: __ <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">QVD (__**Q**__uote - __**V**__isual Representation - __**D**__escription):
 * <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Today's QVD should be centered around the Mechanical Hound
 * <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5;">Some quotes from the book to consider using (feel free to find your own from the text as well)
 * 1) //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse. //
 * 2) //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think. //
 * 3) // The mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the fire house. The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber padded paws. //
 * 4) // Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the hound and let loose rats in the fire house areaway. Three seconds later the game was done, the rat caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentle paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine. //
 * 5) // "Under the doorsill, a slow probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam." //

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 30px;">Activity 9: __ <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">**Summative Writing Prompt** - Find this activity in Google Classroom and turn in finished copy there. <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">Papers should be no less than 1 double-spaced page done in Times New Roman font. Use as many paragraphs as you feel necessary to answer the questions that are posed. <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">Pick one of the following prompts to write about:


 * <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">1. Compare and contrast the Mechanical Hound in __Fahrenheit 451__ to Napoleon's dogs in __Animal Farm__. Make sure to use textual evidence from both books to support your findings. **


 * <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">2. Consider the symbolism of fire in the novel. Explore passages where fire significantly factors into the story. How does Montag's understanding of fire (and/or burning) change throughout the novel? At the end of the book, Granger looks at the fire and says, "phoenix." How does fire capture both destruction and renewal? **


 * <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">3. Some are disappointed with the ending of the book and the lack of closure with Clarisse and Faber (what exactly happened to them?). Rewrite the ending of the book to include these two characters in some capacity. **


 * <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">4. One theme in this book is happiness vs. discontentment, Are the people in the Fahrenheit 451 society happy? What does true happiness look like? Which characters are happy and why? Evaluate the happiness of our own society. Do we suffer from some of the same maladies that infect the society in the novel? **


 * <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">5. Some other themes in the book include violence, survival, the modernization of technology, and courage in the face of insurmountable odds. Pick one of these and write about how this particular theme evolved throughout the novel. Questions to consider after you've picked a theme to write about - Who did it affect and how? How did a character change over the course of the novel because of this? **


 * <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">6. Don't like any of my writing prompts? Write your own and have it approved by me. **

<span style="font-family: &#39;Marker Felt&#39;; font-size: 16pt;">Rubric: ||  ||
 * || **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">Points Possible ** || **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">Points Given ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">Did you answer the prompt? Be careful to answer ALL **
 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">questions that are asked of you. ** || **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">15 ** ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">Does your paper flow well? Did you use effective transitions? ** || **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">10 ** ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">Is your voice present? ** || **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">5 **
 * **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">Is your paper free of mistakes? Capitalization, punctuation, **
 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">spelling (use spell-check) ** || **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">15 ** ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">Did you follow the correct format? 12 pt. TNR font, **
 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;"> proper heading, double-spaced ** || **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">5 ** ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">Total ** || **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow Bold&#39;;">50 ** ||  ||

__<span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 30px;">Supplemental Readings: __ __<span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 30px;">Activity ?: "Harrison Bergeron" __ <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Click here for a pdf of the short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.] <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">Quotes Quiz - Who said what? - [|Click here to try your luck]

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__**<span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 20px;">Teacher resources (where I borrowed most of this unit from): **__ <span style="color: #2e8acc; font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,&#39;Book Antiqua&#39;,Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px;">[|1.] [|2.] [|3.]