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Fahrenheit 451. Cycle 4, Day 1. Agenda. Reading Goal: Identify how an author uses events to reveal the negative effects that censorship has on people. Today’s Big Question: What are the effects of today’s “reality” TV shows? Team Cooperation Goal: Practice active listening.
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Fahrenheit 451 Cycle 4, Day 1
Agenda • Reading Goal: • Identify how an author uses events to reveal the negative effects that censorship has on people. • Today’s Big Question: • What are the effects of today’s “reality” TV shows? • Team Cooperation Goal: • Practice active listening
Background T-P-S • Review Theme Map from Cycle 2. • What are some of the big ideas that the author emphasizes throughout the story? • How does the author reveal these themes to the reader? • Predict: Will Montag ever feel connected to anyone again?
Theme and events T-P-S • How does the author use setting and characterization to reveal themes. • Think Aloud • What other theme does this same event illustrate? • Can you think of other events that reveal one of the big ideas we have discussed? Identify the event and the big idea it reveals. • Can you think of any specific events that reveal how impersonal or insensitive the society has become?
Listening • Listen to pgs 141-144. • Listen to Think Aloud • T-P-S • Why do you think Montag is overwhelmed by the expansive land and the darkness in the country? • Why does Montag immediately think of the Hound when he sees a shape with two eyes before him? • Does this event contribute to the theme of the negative effects of censorship?
Partner read pgs 144-149, stopping at “Granger turned it off.” • What causes Montag to reflect that he is not empty, that there is more than enough to fill him? • Why do you think that Montag suddenly is certain that Clarisse had once walked where he is walking now? • What is different about the fire that Montag comes upon in the country? • Name an event in today’s reading that reveals the theme of the negative effects that censorship has on people. (write)