Class Oct 21 & 22

BELLWORK: Writer's Notebook response--

List the wars you've been aware of during your lifetime. Then list other wars you've learned about. Write your impressions about which of these wars were/are worth fighting.

BUSINESS:

• Fahrenheit 451 Part 3 Study Guides (21 points) will not be late if turned in this week. If you need a book to finish the Study Guide, check one out from Mrs. Palmer in the Writing Lab.
  
• Book Report/Reading Log (10% of your T1 final grade)--these were due Oct 19 & 20. If you have not yet done this assignment or turned it in yet, please finish it and put it in the Late box.
• As per the syllabus, all late work turned in the last two weeks of each term is only worth 1/2 credit. Late Book Reports/Reading Logs, however, can receive as high as 75%.
• As per school policy, go to Attendance School if you have more than 4 tardies or more than 4 absences. See me or email me with any questions: pharline@alpine.k12.ut.us

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Consolidate and synthesize connections between texts, between texts and self, and between texts and different world connections.

FAHRENHEIT 451 THEME--war

PowerPoint presentation. A summary: basically, Bradbury wrote F451 in 1951 just after witnessing WWII and the start of the Korean War. A theme near the end of his book seems to be that we need to remember what we've learned from past wars in order to avoid future wars. My PowerPoint included black and white photographs from the WWII bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Korean War, and Vietnam. The PP ended with this quote from Granger to Montag at the end of the F451: "When [people] ask us what we're doing, you can say, 'We're remembering.' ...And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up" (164).


Silent discussion. Students moved about the room writing answers on poster paper. If you do this at home, write answers to the following questions on a piece of paper:

• Why does Bradbury say that "remembering" would help us bury war? What does he mean?
• Explain your reasons for believing that the United States is mostly a peaceful nation OR mostly a warlike nation.
• Explain why you believe it would be possible OR impossible for the United States to bury (or stamp out) war.
• Explain why you think Montag did OR didn't do the right thing when he killed Beatty.
• At the end of F451, Montag and some professors are living in the country. If you could be the people in the country OR the people in town, which would you be and why?
• Could Montag be considered a hero? Why OR why not?

Motto and Seal. This activity is meant to help students synthesize ideas about war and connect them to F451. Here's the link to the assignment:
Motto and Seal assignment