Understanding Fahrenheit 451: Allegory, Vocabulary, Dangers of Technology Addiction

1. Fahrenheit 451 English 10

2. Day 1: Sit in your Color Groups • SWBAT: Demonstrate their understanding of the “Allegory of the Cave” by creating a coming strip. • Group reading of AotC • Group work time • Reflection: How do you feel like this short play was a metaphor for you? Do you think it is good to be in a cave? Do you think that we sometimes are looked at differently for understanding ideas that others do not or for having a different view on life than others do? • Summary

3. Group Reading • With your color group choose to be Socrates, Glaucon, or the narrator (read the italicized words) • Read AotC, stopping at the end of each section or page to annotate and summarize what is happening. You will need 1—12 events that you have noted from the entire play. YOU MUST COVER THE ENTIRE PLAY!!! DO NOT HAVE 12 EVENTS FROM THE FIRST PAGE!!! • When you have finished, create a T-Chart where you choose three similarities between the play and real life. Write these on the Right Side of your notebook. This will be a grade!!!!

4. Comic Strip Activity • Today, you will create a 10-12 box comic strip highlighting the events that you noted on the right side. • You have one class periods to do this, so you need to work together and assign duties so that everyone works together. You CANNOT TAKE THIS HOME!!! That wouldn’t be fair because you don’t live in the same house as your group members. • Have FUN!!!! • ***Note: a suggestion would be to number 1-10 and then choose which events you will highlight. • ***Make sure that you don’t leave any important parts of the story out of your comic strip • ***Use your time wisely. Do not spend so much time on your coloring and drawing that you do not finish. What you have completed will be what is graded (and displayed in the hallway)

5. Fahrenheit Day 2: Sit in your Number Groups Objective: SWBAT understand the vocabulary of F451. • Vocab 1 &2 • Reflection: What are your initial feelings vocabulary? Were there any words that you didn’t know? Do you think that it is important to learn new words consistently? Why/Not? • Summary

6. 451 Vocab #1 • Abyss • Cower • Distilled • Mausoleum • Noncombustible • Pagan • Rationalize • Ravenous • Trajectory • Titillation

7. 451 Vocab List 2 • Chaos • Discourse • Invigorate • Linguist • Oracle • Profusion • Suffuse • Teem • Verbiage • Welter

8. Fahrenheit Day 3: Sit in your Sticker Groups • Objective: SWBAT understand the dangers of cell phone addiction. • AoW • Check out F451 • HW: pg 1-15 and notes topics for day 5 • Reflection: AoW • Summary

9. Take Notes on these Ideas for Fahrenheit • Symbols • Burning/fire • Colors: red, white, yellow, • Cheshire Cat Smiles • Wind, rain, sun, stars, • Smells • 451 • Light/dark • Warmth/coldness • Books • Starting from the beginning • Sand/Sieve • The Bible • Phoenix • Time/clocks/counting • Eyes • Themes • In order to see clearly, one’s eyes must be completely open. • The more that technology becomes essential, the less that people become important. • When individual thought is compromised, control is optimized. • Speaking does not necessarily equal conversing. • Archetypes • Christ • Good Girl • Bad Boy • Mentor • Tragic Hero • Antiquated Character • Cold Wife

10. Places • Outside • Montag and Mildred’s bedroom • The Fire station • The Woman on Elm’s house • Characters • Montag • Clarisse • Mildred • Hound • Captain Beatty • Woman on Elm • Faber • Mildred’s friends (Mrs. Bowles, Mrs. Phelps)

11. Day 4: Sit in your Color Groups • SWBAT: debate their ideas regarding technology addiction • Debate/discussion • Reflection: What were some of the ideas that you agreed with during the discussion? What were some ideas that you disagreed with? Have your ideas changed at all after reading this article? Why/not? • Summary

12. Day 5: Sit in your Sticker Groups • SWBAT: Decide whether too much technology is a good thing. • RQ • Journal • Discussion • Reflection: Do you identify more with Clarisse or Montag or Mildred? • Summary

13. RQ pgs 1-15 • What does the number 451 symbolize? • What color surrounds Clarisse? • What did Clarisse say about what firemen used to do? • How does Montag feel when Clarisse asks him questions? • What was the last question that Clarisse asked Montag that he could not stop thinking about? • What’s wrong with Mildred? • Why is Montag jealous of Clarisse’s family?

14. 1-15 Key • The temperature from which paper burns • White • Put out fires • Uncomfortable • Are you happy? • She OD’d • They spend time together and communicate

15. Journal #1 • Compose five or more sentences about one or more questions from the following prompt. Do you think that technology addiction is an epidemic? Do you feel that you or members of your group are addicted to their technology? Do you feel that you are more like Montag or Clarisse with your views of technology?

16. Symbols…. • Color • Black • White • Objects • Salamander • Eyes • Scents • Kerosene • Perfume of the night • Weather • Rain

17. Conflicts • Dark v. Light • Freedom v. Society

18. Discussion “Well,” she said, “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together… I like to smell and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise” (Bradbury 5). “’Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning.’ He suddenly couldn’t remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable” (Bradbury 7). “He did not wish to open the drapes and open the French windows, for he did not want the moon to come into the room. So with the feeling of a man who will die in the next hour for lack of air, he felt his way toward his open, separate, and therefore cold bed” (Bradbury 10).

19. Fahrenheit Day 6: Sit with your Color Groups • SWBAT: understand the risks of individuality. • RQ • Journal • Discussion • Reflection: Do you think that it is better to stand out in the crowd like Clarisse or fit in like Mildred? • Summary

20. Pg 15-32 RQ • Why does Millie believe that she is so hungry? • Why is Millie angry at Montag? • What does Clarisse do to make Montag upset with her? • What does Montag do for the first time in regards to the rain? • What did the Mechanical Hound do when Montag touched it? • What does Captain Beatty say when Montag reports about the hound’s reaction to him? • How does Clarisse feel about children her age? • What did Montag notice about the firemen when he was playing cards with them?

21. 15-32 Key • They had a party the night before • He won’t buy her a fourth wall tv • She tells him he’s not in love • Tastes it • Growled at him • The hound is a machine…it has no emotions of its own • She is afraid of them • They all look alike

22. Journal #2 • Compose five or more sentences about one or more questions from the following prompt. What happens when a person stands out from the crowd? Is individuality a recipe for bullies? What about a reason for seclusion and exclusion? Why are new ideas often disregarded as strange? Why do we choose to keep our true selves hidden?

23. 15-32 Discussion • Life v. Death

24. Discussion • With an elbow partner, locate three quotes that deal with individualism or the lack of individualism. Analyze those quotes and relate them to your journals. Are we different or the same as the firemen or Clarisse or Montag?

25. Fahrenheit Day 7: Sit in your Number Groups • SWBAT: understand the deterioration of Montag’s marriage. • RQ • Journal • Discussion • Do you think that Mildred and Montag understand what love is? Do you think that Clarisse’s ability to ask hard questions is helping or harming Montag? • Summary

26. Pg 32-45 RQ • Who was the first fireman? • What did the woman refuse to do when the firemen arrived at her house? • What had Montag stolen? • What was Montag’s emotional reaction to the aftermath of the woman on Elm? • What can’t Millie remember? • What does Montag realize about his relationship with his wife? • What happened to Clarisse?

27. 32-45 Key • Benjamin Franklin • Leave her books • A book • He cried • When/where she and Montag met • He doesn’t love her • She died/got run over by a car

28. Journal 3 • Compose five or more sentences about one or more questions from the following prompt. Do you think that there is anything or anyone that you would put yourself in harm’s way in order to protect it/them? What was so powerful about the woman on Elm’s silent protest? In what way did it make Montag or the reader reevaluate their understanding of love?

29. Life and death continued….

30. Discussion • With an elbow partner, connect the following characters to their “loves.” Be sure you have a quote to support each of your examples, as well as two sentences of analysis to support your reasoning. You will be presenting these to the class during the final 15 minutes. • Characters: Beatty, Montag, Woman on Elm, Mildred, Clarisse

31. Fahrenheit Day 8: Sit in you Sticker Groups • SWBAT: understand the changes in Montag. • RQ • Notes topics part 2 • Questions • Beatty Discussion • Reflection: Do you think that we have fallen into the trap of fake news and useless information? Why do we get our information from Twitter instead of a newspaper? • Summary

32. Pg 45-65 RQ • What is wrong with Montag? • What does Millie refer to the people on TV as? • What does Montag want to do regarding his job? • Who comes to visit Montag? • What does Beatty believe about the Constitution and equality? • What does Beatty tell Montag he needs to do with the book that he has stolen? • What does Montag pull from the vent? • What does Montag want to do with the books?

33. 45-65 Key • He is “sick” • Her family/relatives • Quit • Beatty • People are made equal, not created equal • Keep for 24 hours then burn it • Books • Read

34. Discussion Analyze Beatty’s lecture (beginning on pg 51 and ending on pg 58). What are the advantages and disadvantages to having a mind of useless information? Have we become a society built on trivia and surface observations? What does Beatty “call” upon Montag to do (indirectly) and what is Montag’s response? Pg 59-61

35. Fahrenheit Day 9: Sit in your Color Groups • SWBAT: understand the analogy of the sand and the sieve • RQ • Questions • Journal • Discussion • Reflection: When have you ever had a sand and sieve moment? Did you react like Montag did? Explain. • Summary

36. RQ pg 67-76 • What does Mildred say that books aren’t? • What does Montag notice about the bombers? • What does Montag need to help him learn to comprehend what he reads? • What does Faber tell Montag about what has happened to all of the books? • In Montag’s image of the sand and the sieve, what is the sand? • What is the sieve? • What book was Montag reading on the subway? • What does Montag run away from at the end of the reading?

37. Key 67-76 • People • War is going on, but people don’t notice • A teacher • They are gone • Knowledge/words/books • His brain • The Bible • Into the sun (out of the cave)/the subway

38. Journal #4 (5 sentences) • Have you ever been in a situation where people talk around an issue instead of getting to the point? How did that make you feel? Did you want to leave that group? What happens when the values or norms of a group are no longer acceptable? Do you stay with the group because that’s what you’ve always done, or do you leave the group, even if it means losing some friendships along the way?

39. Allegory of the Cave Connection AotC Montag

40. Discussion • Page 74 “Once a child…” to pg 76 “The train vanished in its hole” • What is happening here? What are the lilies? Where does that symbol live? How does that contradict Denham’s Dentrifrice? How does this relate to the Allegory of the Cave and to Montag’s relationship with Millie and Beatty? How are all of these ideas a dilemma between abstract ideas and concrete ideas?

41. Day 10: Sit in your Number Groups • SWBAT: Understand Montag’s plan for comprehension and change. • RQ • Questions • Journal • Discussion • Reflection: Do you follow the three rules for comprehension when you read? What do you need to do in order to understand what you read more easily? • Summary

42. Pg 76-89 RQ • What does Montag want Faber to teach him? • What is the first reason to determine why books are important? • What is the second way to determine why books are important? • What is the third reason to determine why books are important? • Who needs to be framed in order for a revolt to be successful? • What did Montag do to convince Faber to teach him? • What does Faber give to Montag? • What story does Montag read from the Bible?

43. 76-89 • How to understand what he reads • They have quality • The leisure to understand them • Right to carry out the actions from which they have learned • The firemen • Tear pages from the Bible • A two way earbud radio • Job

44. Journal #5 (5 sentences) • Have you ever had an experience when you struggled to understand how to do something? Was it for school? A sport? An activity? What did you do to comprehend your new task? What advice do you have for someone who is also struggling with that task?

45. Discussion • Review the three rules for comprehension according to Faber (pgs 79-81). What do those rules mean? Why are they important to understanding? • How do these three ideas play into Faber and Montag’s plan to destroy the structure of the firemen?

46. Book of Job: Page 89 • Theme: God’s justice in the face of human suffering • “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away…”

47. Day 11: Sit in your Sticker Groups • SWBAT: Debate whether or not Beatty forced Montag into a trap. • Quiz • Dover Beach • Reflection: Have you ever put on a Cheshire cat smile? Why is this such an important recollection for Montag? • Summary

48. RQ pg 89-106 • The Cheshire cat is also seen in Alice in Wonderland. When Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles have Cheshire cat smiles, what does this mean? • What is the relationship between the mothers and their children? • Why did the women vote for President Noble in the last election? • What was Mrs. Phelps’s reaction to Montag reading the poem? • What did Montag do with his book of poetry? • What has Mildred been doing with the books that Montag had collected? • Where did Beatty throw the book Montag had turned in? • Whose house are they going to burn at the end of the chapter?

49. 89-106 Key • They smile but are not really happy • They hate each other • He was good looking • She cried • Burns it • Burning them • Into the trash • Montag’s

50. Symbolism • Cheshire cats (89) vs. statues of the saints (91-92) • What is the difference between these two symbols? • Book disposal???? • Sound of silence…..