March 23 27 Week of March 23 Day

March 23 - 27

Week of March 23 Day Question (Answer in complete sentences. You do NOT have to rewrite the question. ) Mon Beatty says, “What is there about fire that’s 3/23 so lovely? Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it” (109). 1. Do you agree or disagree? Explain. 2. In your opinion, is fire beautiful? Why or why not? 3. What happens to the Mechanical Hound and Captain Beatty after Montag fights them?

Fire Imagery Page 1 -2 Page 114 Reread pages 1 -2. “It was a pleasure…as long as he remembered. ” Read the 4 th paragraph on page 114, “It made a single last leap…” What phrases/words does Bradbury use to describe the fire? - Fire represents _______ for Montag because _____. Montag because ____.

Fire Imagery 1. Read the 4 th paragraph on page 114, “It made a single last leap…” 2. What phrases does Bradbury use to describe fire? Why? 3. Reread pages 1 -2. “It was a pleasure…as long as he remembered. ” 4. What phrases does Bradbury use to describe fire? Why?

Fire Imagery In one paragraph (5 -7 sentences), answer the following question: How does Montag’s understanding of fire change? What does it reveal about fire and Montag? Turn in at the end of the period! Be prepared to share!

March 24 – Tuesday

Week of March 23 Day Question (Answer in complete sentences. You do NOT have to rewrite the question. ) Tues 3/24 1. Was Beatty’s death a murder or a suicide? Explain. 2. Did Beatty deserve to die? Explain.

Vocabulary Vocab Word WORD Part of Speech: _______ Definition Sentence Picture

Incomprehensible Adjective Impossible to understand; not intelligible Prefix “in” means NOT I found his behavior utterly incomprehensible.

Aesthetic Adjective Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. Of or relating to art or beauty The architect’s modern aesthetic can be seen in the furniture. The pictures give great aesthetic pleasure.

Oblivion Noun The state of something that is forgotten The VHS machine is destined for oblivion. The names of the people who founded this city have faded into oblivion.

Pyre Noun A pile of wood used for burning a body as a funeral rite She built a pyre after husband died.

Judging Beatty Why did Beatty want to die? Was his death murder or suicide?

Phoenix Noun A magical bird in ancient stories that lives for 500 years, burns itself on a funeral pyre, and then is reborn from the ashes. Harry Potter watched as Fawkes, the phoenix rose from the ashes.

Incriminate Verb To cause someone to appear guilty for a crime In court they played a video that incriminated him.

Incriminate

Perpetual Adjective Continuing forever How can they stand months of perpetual cold? Her older sister casts a perpetual shadow over her.

Penance Noun Voluntary punishment in order to show that you are sorry for some wrongdoing After stealing his friend’s phone, his penance was to buy him dinner.

Plume Noun A feather The red plume of a cardinal was beautiful.

March 25 – Wednesday

Week of March 23 Day Question (Answer in complete sentences. You do NOT have to rewrite the question. ) Wed 1. Define these terms in your own 3/25 words: Personification Metaphor – Simile -

Do Now Clear your desks for a reading quiz (pages 123 -130). Take out a pen/pencil and your study guide.

Pages 123 -130 summary Montag hides books in a fireman’s house and calls in the alarm. Faber tells him to follow the railroad tracks and to meet up with the hobos who can be found near there A new Mechanical Hound is sent to capture him. Montag’s scent is all over Faber’s house

Pages 123 -130 summary Montag’s plan: Burn everything that has his scent on it. Wipe stuff down with alcohol Turn on the sprinklers outside (remove scent from sidewalk) Fill a suitcase with Faber’s dirty clothes. Wrap it with tape. Cover the suitcase with whiskey to hide the smell.

March 26 – Thursday

Do Now Take out your DBR, and Fahrenheit 451 book. Grab a paper from the front of the room.

Week of March 23 Day Question (Answer in complete sentences. You do NOT have to rewrite the question. ) Thur 3/26 Find one simile on page 123. (5 minutes) 1. Write the simile down. 2. Explain what the simile means.

Figurative Language Metaphor Simile Personification

Metaphor = an implied analogy in which one thing is compared to another dissimilar thing. Examples: He is a shining star. Life is a rollercoaster. Mary’s eyes were fireflies. Their home is a prison. The hospital was a refrigerator.

Simile = an explicit comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as. Examples: She was as busy as a bee. She was as cute as a kitten. He was as happy as a clam. He was as blind as a bat. You were as brave as a lion. They fought like cats and dogs. This is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.

Simile

Personification = literary device that gives human traits to nonliving things. Examples: The sun smiled on the children. The tree waved to the woman.

Part 3: Burning Bright Read pages 138 -147 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=k 3 GLx. L 7 cj. Yk

March 27 – Friday

Week of March 23 Day Question Fri 3/27 “We’re book burners, too. We read the books and burnt them, afraid they’d be found. Better to keep it [information from books] in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. ” said Granger (145). 1. Is it okay that Granger and the others burn the books? Why or why not? (3 sentence minimum)

Kurt Vonnegut

Background Info In October of 1973, Bruce Severy — a 26 -yearold English teacher at Drake High School, North Dakota —decided to use Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, as a teaching aid in his classroom. The next month, the head of the school board, Charles Mc. Carthy, demanded that all 32 copies be burned in the school's furnace as a result of its "obscene language. " Other books soon met with the same fate. On the 16 th of November, Kurt Vonnegut sent Mc. Carthy the following letter. He didn't receive a reply.

Kurt Vonnegut Benedict Cumberbatch reading the letter http: //www. bbcamerica. com/anglophenia/2014/06/wat ch-benedict-cumberbatch-reads-letter-kurt-vonnegut/