MUG shots
 Would you believe that over 7000 years ago
Ancient Egyptians like to bowl on alleys alot
like ours
Rules:
Capitalization, End Punctuation, Using the Right word,
Comma (numbers)
February 16, 2010
Objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
1. MUG shots
2. Journal
3. Poetry 180
1. questions
4. Library to check out books
5. Packets and discuss
6. Pass out literary responses for new set
7. Read first paragraphs of novel and make
predictions about the story (journal 2)
8. Discuss entries for introduction to F451
HW: TV log, literary responses
JOURNAL 1
What is your favorite book? How old were you
when you read this book? What is it about? Why do
you like it so much? Would you recommend this book
to someone else? (at least 6 sentences)
Themes for “The Pedestrian”
Fahrenheit 451
 What do you think is going to happen in this
novel? Make a few predictions from what you
know. (at least 4 sentences)
MUG SHOTS 1
HE LOST BOTH PARENTS BEFORE HE
WAS THREE HE WAS RAISED BY
JOHN ALLAN OF RICHMOND
VIRGINIA.
RULES:
Run-on sentence
Capitalization
Commas (sep. city from state)
February 17, 2010
Objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
MUG shots
Check vocabulary homework
Journal
Poetry 180
Go over “The Pedestrian” and themes
Packets and discuss
Read Fahrenheit 451
HW: TV log, literary responses read to page Stop
after “You’ve gone right by the corner where
we turn for the firehouse.”
Efficacious
Isn’t that desirable?
I don’t know how I became so different,
or who has the key to my rib cage anymore.
I never deserved this and
I can tell you my heart’s overgrown
as I walk with a limp.
It’s all portal connections from there.
Sleepless dreams patiently waiting,
The signal has ended.
I’m bound by the knot you made,
I can’t control it
And I am pushed off the edge…
…of the Pacific where the world opens up and Asia can see you across the way when she had
almost forgotten who you were but smiles now because age brings wisdom but it also brings need
as times pass and people change in strange patterns that could only make sense after you lose
control from the swaying of the Trees way back before you or me were ever thought to be and I’ll
bet that’s how you think back now as old as you are and how adolescent I have become.
And a word more on efficacious aspirations if I could,
And I will. My karma is swirling,
Like the ice cream melting on my hands.
Soon passion shall consume me.
Without some anchor,
reminding me
why I need to slow it down.
Symbols!! ahhhh
 Hearth
 Salamander
 White versus dark character traits
 Fire
 Blood
 The Electric-Eyed Snake
MUG shots 2
If you like horror stories youll enjoy
reading Edgar Allan Poe’s work, Poe
is known from his short stories
poetry and works of literary criticism.
Rules:
Commas: after introductory clause and in a series
Apostrophe: in contradiction ‘you’ll’
Run-on sentence: semi-colon or period and
capitalize ‘P’ in ‘Poe’
February 18, 2010
objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
 MUG shots
 Journal
 Poem
 Check vocabulary
 Read quiz
 Continue reading Fahrenheit 451
Journal
If you could preserve only four books
or a handful of musical recordings,
what would you choose and why?
Write an annotated list in which you
identify the books or recordings.
(at least 7 sentences)
Fahrenheit 451
 Somebody has to do what’s right
Fahrenheit four fifty-one
Burning black and white
Well I got some education
I go down to the library every night
And I’m looking for somebody with a dream like
mine
We could share a few pages ’round the fire so bright
Now it’s spreading ’cross the nation
And it’s time to seize the moment, that’s what they
says
’cause it’s all been well reported in the daily news,
You can read all about it before it turns to ashes
MUG shots
 the Cleveland Indians are named after
Louis Sockolexis whom was the first
native american to play professional
baseball.
Capitalization, Comma, Using the Right Word
Rules:
February 19, 2010
objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.4. 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
 MUG shots
 Journal
 Vocabulary Quiz
 Poetry
 Group work
Journal
Fire.
What does is usually symbolize?
How does it “work?”
What is its purpose?
Burning a Book
--William Stafford
Protecting each other, right in the
center
a few pages glow a long time.
The cover goes first, then outer
leaves
curling away, then spine and a
scattering.
Truth, brittle and faint, burns easily,
its fire as hot as the fire lies make –
flame doesn’t care.You can usually
find
a few charred words in the ashes.
And some books ought to burn, trying for
character
but just faking it. More disturbing
than book ashes are whole libraries that no
one
got around to writing – desolate
towns, miles of unthought-in cities,
and the terrorized countryside where wild
dogs
own anything that moves. If a book
isn’t written, no one needs to burn it –
ignorance can dance in the absence of fire.
So I’ve burned books. And there are many
I haven’t even written, and nobody does.
 How does this relate to the fireman’s
attitude?
 What is this poem talking about figuratively?
QUIZ I
1. WHO IS MILDRED?
HER?
WHAT HAPPENS TO
2. DESCRIBE THE LIGHT/DARK IMAGERY.
WHAT DOES THIS SYMBOLIZE?
3. WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE END OF THE
SECTION? WHO IS BOB, RUTH, AND HELEN?
MUG shots
 Golf ball’s used to be little feather pillows
maid of leather.
Rules:
Using the right word, Plurals
Journal
Analyze how many hours you spent watching
TV or any type of media—what does this say
about you in relation to what we’ve learned
from our story? What does this say about our
society?
(TV log is part of journal entry)
MUG shots
The setting of the catacombs
contribute to the horror of
the story
Rules:
 S-V agreement
 End punctuation
Quiz
 What is the conflict between Montag and Mildred?
(Think…they are so different)
 What is Captain Beatty’s story and what is his
outlook on technology?
 Do you think Beatty knows Montag’s secret? Do
you think he knows it all? Explain and support.
 Foreshadow what is to come after reading the end
of part I and reading the beginning of Part
II…Montag is reading a book…
Activities: 6 groups. GO.
 Beatty’s story
 Cartoon strip
 quotes
 Our modern society vs. F451 society—similarities? Differences?
 Draw the different settings and use quotes
 “Hearth and Salamander” Draw the symbols and use quotes
 Why symbolic? Why important?
 The Other Point of View
 Why does an apparently well-educated man such as Captain Beatty
would support a society that burns books? Select another character
from the related readings. Prepare a dramatic dialogue in which
Beatty and the other character discuss the value of literature in
society.
 Compare/contrast “The Pedestrian” with F451. Draw and label a
character picture.
 Plot
 Key Points
 collage
 Use quotes
MUG shots
 In the 1700s and 1800s in Peru bullfighters
were women, which fought bulls while riding
horseback and that was also the time when
the major breed of fighting bull were
developed.
Rules:
Comma, using the right word, rambling sentence
February 23, 2010
Obj.: 1.1, 2.1, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
 MUG shots and quiz
 Journal
 Poetry 180
 Lyrical poetry
 Question in journal
 Presentations: I would take notes if I were
you…
Journal
Would it be worth the risk to
keep/hide books even though they
are banned? Do you agree with
Montag about trying to preserve the
literature? (at least 7 sentences)
Parachutes
-- Coldplay
In a haze, a stormy haze
I'll be round; I'll be loving you
always, always
Here I am and I take my time
Here I am and I'll wait in line
always, always
Questions
After you read and listen to
this, what/who do you think
this lyrical poem is about?
How did you feel while
reading or listening to the
song?
Really.
February 24, 2010
Obj.: 1.1, 2.1, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
 MUG shots
 Check vocabulary homework exercises 2/3
 Journal
 Poetry 180
 Questions with partner
 Mini-reading quiz
 Seminar rest of class
Journal
What would you do if you were Montag?
Would you lie? Would you run? Would you
turn yourself in? ...everyone is out to get
you, your wife left you, and Faber isn’t
always reliable…
(at least 8 sentences)
Mug shots
 In 1867, William e cummings through the first
curveball in Baseball histery.
Rules:
Using the Right Words, capitalization, period spelling
March 2, 2010
objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
 MUG shots
 Journal
 Poem “Dover Beach”
 IQ worksheet
 Get ready for seminar
Journal
Imagine that a school board has voted
to ban the novel Fahrenheit 451. Write
a letter in which you express your
feelings to the board.
“Dover Beach”
-- Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm to-night.
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
The Sea of Faith
Upon the straits; on the French coast Was once, too, at the full, and round
the light
earth's shore
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle
England stand;
furled.
Glimmering and vast, out in the
But now I only hear
tranquil bay.
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Come to the window, sweet is the
Retreating, to the breath
night-air!
Of the night-wind, down the vast
Only, from the long line of spray
edges drear
Where the sea meets the moonAnd naked shingles of the world.
blanched land,
Ah, love, let us be true
Listen! you hear the grating roar
To one another! for the world, which
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, seems
and fling,
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
At their return, up the high strand,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Begin, and cease, and then again
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor
begin,
light,
With tremulous cadence slow, and
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for
bring
pain;
The eternal note of sadness in.
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Sophocles long ago
Swept with confused alarms of
Heard it on the Agaean, and it brought struggle and flight,
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Questions…naturally…
 What is the theme?  What is the POV?
 Examples of:
 Alliteration
 Paradox
 Metaphor
 Personification
 Simile
How do you know?
Where does it shift?
How do you know?
 Describe the poem
and how does this
relate/contrast with
Fahrenheit 451?
 Who is the
audience?
A lyric poem (poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal
feelings)
naturalistic and detailed nightscape of the beach at Dover in which
auditory imagery plays a significant role
The beach, however, is bare, with only a hint of humanity in a light
that "gleams and is gone".
Arnold turns to the action of the tide itself and sees in its retreat a
metaphor for the loss of faith in the modern age
Exploring the dark terror that lies beneath his happiness in love, the
speaker resolves to love—and exigencies of history and the nexus
between lovers are the poem's real issues. That lovers may be
'true/To one another' is a precarious notion: love in the modern
city momentarily gives peace, but nothing else in a postmedieval society reflects or confirms the faithfulness of lovers.
Devoid of love and light the world is a maze of confusion left by
'retreating' faith."
 The poem “Dover Beach”, in the book Fahrenheit 451, was
chosen by Ray Bradbury because of its representation of the
world. The world in the poem, like the world in the novel, used to
have diversity, knowledge, and human connection. Now those
qualities are lost.
Both worlds were once “at the full, and round earth’s shore”. They
were diverse, complex, and had a great deal of human
connection. On page 89, Faber tells Montag about how the world
used to be great; with drama programs, newspapers, and other
interests. “Like a beautiful statue of ice it was, melting in the
sun”.
Questions IQ
1. What is an allusion? What are allusions in
part II and part III? Why are they there?
What is significant about them to the novel?
2. What is a Phoenix and how has it portrayed as
an important symbol throughout F451?
(Especially part III)
3. What was Captain Beatty’s speech? What did
it infer or mean?
4. What happens in the river? How does it
connect with “Burning Bright”?
Obj: 1.1, 2.1, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
 MUG shots
 Journal
 Finish WANTED posters and hang up
 Finish plot and conflict worksheets
 Censorship – What books do you know that are banned
or censored? (Make list to place on classroom wall)
 Read rest of novel
Seminar Rules
 Move the desks in a circle….GO.
 Everyone must contribute to the seminar.
This is your participation grade for the day.
You must contribute at least TWO worthy
statements pertaining to the book or some
opinion during the discussion.
 Taking notes isn’t a bad idea either…
 We will cover the following information in the
discussion:
Seminar
 Symbols
 Quotes
 Character
 Allusions
 Themes
 Opinions, opinions, opinions
 “Think outside of the box” for a change
Censorship and banning books
Censorship is the suppression of ideas and information
that certain persons—individuals, groups or government
officials—find objectionable or dangerous.
It is no more complicated than someone saying, “Don’t let
anyone read this book, or buy that magazine, or view that
film, because I object to it! ”
Censors try to use the power of the state to impose their
view of what is truthful and appropriate, or offensive and
objectionable, on everyone else.
Censorship and banning books
Censors pressure public institutions, like libraries,
to suppress and remove from public access
information they judge inappropriate or
dangerous, so that no one else has the chance to
read or view the material and make up their own
minds about it.
The censor wants to prejudge materials for
everyone.
Censorship and banning books
Throughout history, books have been challenged for
many reasons, including:
political content, sexual expression, or language
offensive to some people’s racial
cultural or ethnic background, gender or
sexuality, or political or religious beliefs.
Materials considered heretical, blasphemous,
seditious, obscene or inappropriate for children
have often been censored.
Censorship and banning books
Since the dawn of recorded human expression,
people have been burned at the stake, forced
to drink poison, crucified, ostracized and
vilified for what they wrote and believed.
Banned books in Harnett County
past and/or present
Gutted by Jonathan Green
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern
Nijland
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Considered "dangerous" because of violent,
irreverent, profane and sexually explicit content.
Burned in Drake, North Carolina, 1973;
Rochester, Michigan, 1972
THE LIVING BIBLE, by William C. Bower. Considered
"dangerous" because it is "a perverted commentary on the
King James Version." Burned in Gastonia, North
1986.
Carolina,
LORD OF THE FLIES, by William Golding. Considered
"demoralizing inasmuch as it implies that man is little more
than an animal."
Burned at Owen (North Carolina) High School, 1981;
Marana (Arizona) High School, 1983; Olney, Texas,
Independent School District, 1984.
Censorship and banning books
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Venada Middle School in Irvine, Calif. (1992).
Students received copies of the book with scores of
words-mostly "hells" and "damns"-blacked out. The
novel is about book-burning and censorship. After
receiving complaints from parents and being contacted
by reporters, school officials said the censored copies
would no longer be used.
Censorship and banning books
Bible
Martin Luther's translation of 1534 was burned by Papal
authority in Germany in 1624.
Challenged by an atheist "seeking to turn the tables on the
religious right," but retained at the Brooklyn Center, Minn.
Independent School District (1992). The challenger stated
"the lewd, indecent, and violent contents of that book are
hardly suitable for young students."
Censorship and banning books
Challenged as "obscene and pornographic," but
retained at the Noel Wien Library in Fairbanks,
Alaska (1993).
Challenged but retained in the West Shore schools near
Harrisburg, Pa. (1993) despite objections that it
"contains language and stories that are
inappropriate for children of any age, including tales
of incest and murder. There are more than three
hundred examples of 'obscenities' in the book."
In the computer lab…
Classroom rules:
NO gum, food, or drinks in the lab!
Internet use is for educational purposes only---no music,
games, etc.
When you are finished for the day, log out
properly. DO NOT turn the computers off!
Once you are logged out, turn the computer
MONITOR off. (This conserves energy.)
Leave the workstation like you found it.
AND, push your chair under.
NO headphones at all. We do not need to use them!!
 Journal
 Read “‘You Have Insulted Me’: A Letter” by Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr.
 Discuss reactions to letter
 Go over conflict, plot, and character worksheets
 Class Discussion
Journal
Describe your initial reaction to the story’s
ending. What surprised you? What would
you have liked to change? What is your
overall impression of the book?
(at least 10 sentences)
Obj.: 1.1, 2.1, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
1. Journal
3. Memorization poems
4. Newspaper article
5. Discuss reactions to the story’s ending.
- Make predictions about what will come after
the war.
6. Theme mini-lesson
- Discuss in relation to story
Journal (last one!!)
 What have you learned from/about Fahrenheit
451? Did you like the novel? Why or why not? If
we could read it over again, what would if you
change? Why?
Journal 11 (if needed)
What are some of your talents? What are some
of your best skills? What do you want to do
after you graduate high school? Describe
what you see yourself doing in the future. (9
sentences)
Literary responses
 2 points run on sentences
 2 points tenses
 2 point quotes
 2 points not full length
 5 too plotty or no thought behind it
 2 points personal pronouns
 2 points contractions