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Unit 5: Fahrenheit 451 – Reading Calendar Teacher Ms. Megan Kang E-Mail kangm@Telephone(949) 293-5028 “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." —Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451March-AprilMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday2Unit 5 Kick-Off HW: Read p. 1-293 No SchoolACT Testing 4No SchoolWork Keys Testing5Reading Quiz (p. 1-29)HW: Study vocab6Vocabulary Quiz #1HW: Read p. 29-659Reading Quiz #2(p. 29-65)1011No SchoolExplore/Plan TestingHW: Study vocab 12 Vocabulary Quiz #213HW: Read p. 67-10616Reading Quiz #3(p. 67-106) 1718HW: Study vocab 19Vocabulary Quiz #320HW: Read p. 107-15823Reading Quiz #4(p. 107-158)24 25HW: Study vocab 26Vocabulary Quiz #427HW: Study for Unit Exam30Fahrenheit 451 Unit Exam31 123 Spring Break Begins!Reading Objectives:Explain, using themes, plot points, and characters from the book, how Fahrenheit 451 explores the concepts of conformity and difference and their effects on society.Describe how and why censorship evolved in this society, and discuss the role of apathy in creating state control.Identify the dystopian elements throughout the novel, and explain how Bradbury uses them to set the mood for the book and frame the pare and contrast Clarisse and Mildred, and identify the ideas and typologies each represents in general pare how technology functions in modern society to how it functions in the novel, and determine how technology affects the quality of life in each.Identify and discuss how Bradbury employs literary allusions in the novel.Investigate which actions the novel appears to condone in the face of an oppressive society.Major Themes, Motifs, and SymbolsPay close attention to the following themes, motifs, and symbols as you read the book:Themes (universal ideas): ApathyCensorship/Political Repression Alienation (from the environment from each other, frm truth)Rise of technology/modernization Control (of language, history, information, and communication)ConformityDystopiaResponsibility Motifs (recurring patterns or repeated actions, elements, or ideas): Fire, flameLiterature (books, history, beauty, intellectualism, elitism)Time and increments (what happens in mere minutes, hours, days, a week; speed; measurements)The natural world (leaves, milk, flowers, rain, apples, pear)Technology (Seashells, parlor walls, toast machine, subway, cleaning machines)Symbols (concrete objects or places that have significance in a literary work because they communicates an idea): Mechanical HoundThe Bible (Ecclesiastes, Revelation)ShakespeareSalamandersPhoenixClarisseGrangerBirdsReading AssignmentsReading Assignment #1: Introduction & p. 1-29 (Beginning to "But it was late and the arrival of his train put a stop to his plan.") Describe the opening scene of the novel. How does it set the tone?Why is Montag’s helmet numbered “451”? What do the salamander and the phoenix on his uniform represent?For the preceding few days, Montag says he’s had “uncertain feelings” about the sidewalk around the corner from his house. What does Montag finally discover there?What reaction does Clarisse have to Montag’s job?To what does Clarisse compare sitting around with her family and talking? Why does that act make her family “peculiar”?What does Montag discover about his wife when he returns home?Whom does the hospital send instead of a doctor to treat Mildred? Why? What do they do?What does Mildred do in the parlor? How do her relationships with the characters compare to her relationship with Montag?What is happening inside Montag when he feels “his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other”?What is the Mechanical Hound? What is it used for?How do children behave toward one another in Clarisse’s world, and how does she feel about her peers?Reading Assignment #2: p. 29-65 (From "The flutter of cards, motion of hands, of eyelids, the drone of the time-voice in the firehouse ceiling. . ." to the end of Part One) Who are Uncle Louis and Aunt Maude?What does Mildred answer when Montag asks her about Clarisse’s whereabouts?What is Mildred’s response when Montag tells her that they burnt an old woman with her books?According to Beatty, what were the events leading up to the time that “intellectual” became “the swear word it deserved to be”?In order to weed out the “odd ducks” like Clarisse and her family, what has the government done?What does Beatty say every fireman gets an itch to do once in his career? Why does he say it?After Montag shows Millie the books he’s had hidden, what is her reaction? What does Montag say he’s realized about the firemen?Reading Assignment #3: p. 67-106 (All of Part Two)What is Mildred’s concern if Beatty should discover the books in their home?What does Montag say reading the books might help them do?Why does Montag telephone Faber?Why is Part Two called “The Sieve and the Sand”?What is Montag’s reaction to being bombarded with an advertisement on the subway?When Faber says Montag is brave for stealing the book, what is Montag’s response?What does Faber feel is necessary in order to achieve the revolution that Montag seeks?Who arrives at Montag’s house while he is eating supper? How does Montag react to them?What does Mrs. Phelps do when Montag reads “Dover Beach” aloud?When Montag goes to the station and delivers one book to Beatty, how does Beatty act toward Montag? What is the subject of Beatty’s dream that he relates to Montag?To whose home do the firemen respond?Reading Assignment #4: p. 107-158 (All of Part Three)Explain the significance of Beatty’s saying, “Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why.”Who called in the alarm to Montag’s house?What draws us all to fire, according to Beatty?Who is Montag talking to while Beatty is talking to him, telling Montag that he must burn his own house?How does Montag feel as he torches his house?What does Montag do to Beatty? How would you characterize the language Bradbury uses in describing the action? How does that language affect the reader’s reaction?What does Montag overhear when he is at the gas station? What is his reaction?Who nearly runs over Montag, and why?When Montag is on the run, what does he notice about the country? What significance do a “glass of milk, an apple, a pear” have to him?What does Montag have to offer to the group of intellectuals?Why are Granger and his group referred to as pieces of literature instead of by their names?According to Granger, how is humankind different from the phoenix? How are they alike?VocabularyRA#1StolidRefractedImperceptiblyPulverizedMelancholyCapillaryMultifacetedBallistics PhoenixCacophonyRA#2ErectedProclivityOdiousRavenousPratfallDictumNoncombustibleTactileFeigningHeresy Jargon Luminescent Pantomime Venomous RA#3CadencedRetaliationReceptacleCowardiceSimultaneouslyManifestedVerbiageContemptible Fidgeted Harlequin Insidious Linguists Perished Profusion Skepticism RA#4Smoldering ObscureIndecisiveGrotesqueJuggernaut PedantsPyre Anesthetized AestheticConvolutions Faltered Luminosity Penance Phosphorescent Séance Warily ................
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