DO NOW 9/12/13
In your journal, write today’s date and the following phrase:
F451 quote activity
Take a copy of the question sheet from the front of the room.
Start walking around the room looking at the quotes that
correspond with your questions. Use the quote to help you
formulate a response. You can discuss the quotes quietly
with a classmate.
Finish as many as you can in the first 10 minutes of class!
TERMS TO REVIEW
Dystopian
Cautionary tale
KNOWLEDGE
“[Books] stitched the patches of the universe together
into one garment for us” (p. 83).
How do books draw together ideas and information so as
to capture details that might otherwise be missed?
FREEDOM OF THOUGHT
“The televisor … tells you what to think and blasts it in”
(p. 84).
Members of this world have “plenty off-hours” but do
they have “time to think”?
What kind of thinking do Faber and Bradbury prefer? Will
it initially make life more difficult?
EDUCATION
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public
itself stopped reading of its own accord” (p. 87).
What kind of education is necessary to create citizens
who recognize “quality of information,” take “leisure to
digest it,” and “carry out actions based on what we
learn from the interaction of the first two” (pp. 84–
85)?
How might this relate to our current educational system?
FINAL ACTIVITY
Is our society too saturated by electronic media (for
example, TV, the Internet, iPods)? Propose a solution
to this modern-day issue: “The mind drinks less and
less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going
somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere” (57).
Your homework: “Coda” – Read & answer questions