Dec 8: Begin Fahrenheit 451

1. Journal: "Thought"
   How does language make thought possible?
   How might increasing your vocabulary help you be able to think better?
   ½ page minimum
   Add to journal: "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury. **How is this true? **What does reading have to do with culture?


2. Fahrenheit 451 audio book and book online
   •AUDIO BOOK
   –See “Fahrenheit 451” folder on y-drive.
   –Open the “AUDIOBOOK” folder.
   –There will be 4 folders, one for each CD of the book. (AudiobookPart1, etc.)
   •COPY OF BOOK ONLINE:
   –http://kisi.deu.edu.tr/murat.goc/451.pdf


3. Class sets of the novel:
   •We only have a class set. You will be assigned a book number. You are responsible for this book while you are in class. If it is not here for the student in the next class who uses it, you will be penalized.
   •If you miss a day, you are responsible for coming to this blog to see what part of the book we read. You are responsible for reading it before returning to class. Use the above link or come by the classroom before or after school to borrow one of the extra books.
   •Extra books: I have a few extra books that will be checked out on a first-come, first-serve basis. You have to come AFTER or BEFORE school to get a book.
   •Book numbers: You will have the same book in class for the duration of this unit. You will be responsible for any damage done to the book while in this class.


4. Vocabulary. Read the following sentences. What do you think the underlined words mean? Make an educated guess.
   1. With his symbolic helmet number 451 on his stolid head...he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire.
   2. Impossible: for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you.
   3. And if the muscles of his jaws stretched imperceptibly, she would yawn long before he would.
   4. He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow.
   5. And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.
   6. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the Nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature...
   7. Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, it multifaceted eyes at peace.


5. Fill in blanks to Reading Assignment #1 vocabulary definitions:
   1) emotion
   2) Deflected
   3) Senses
   4) Powder
   5) Gloominess (depression)
   6) Diameter
   7) Faces
   8) Projectiles


6. NOTES
   Imagery: language that appeals to the senses.
   Listen to the first paragraph of Fahrenheit 451. What senses do the words appeal to?
   Sketch the images that appealed to you. Now read the paragraph and add to your imagery notes.


7. NOTES TO CONTINUE WHILE YOU READ...
   Characterization. As you read, you will take notes on the characters Guy and Clarisse. What do you learn about their personalities? Do they change? If so, how? Compare/contrast with Equality from Anthem.


8. We read to "You think too many things" on page 9 and will continue reading next class.
9. HOMEWORK: Choose 3 words from Reading Assignment #1 vocabulary and complete a vocabulary activity of your choice for each.