What's Due When?

Due Tuesday, 3/27	LC Work
Due Wed., 3/28	Q’s 31-53 due
Thurs., 3/29	Journal Grading; discuss Projects
Friday. 3/30	F451 Test (make sure you know allusions, too)
4/2-4/6	Vacation: Soc Sem Q’s and Essay Q’s will be posted on blog if you want toget a head start…
Tuesday, 4/10	Socratic Seminar: Be prepared!
Thursday, 4/12	ICE
Mon., 4/16	F451 Projects due

Notes on Allusions

F451 Test:

• 30-40 multiple choice Q's
• Reread pg. 123 for figurative language.
• Pay special attention to allusions w/asterisks.

Guy***	from Guy Fawkes (British Rebel); Montag = name of a paper company
Clarisse***	from Latin "clarus" -- clarity
Phoenix***	bird (G.M.)—burns itself up every 500 yrs. and is reborn; --p. 163...Granger**; bird vs. man
Tower of Babel***	Bible—people wanted to build a tower to heaven; when people were trying to build it, God they wmade it so they all spoke different languages to make their task impossible; in =. Beatty says it to old lady to suggest that she's been living w/a Tower of Babel in her house because of all the books that disagree with each other…no common philosophy is dangerous, in his mind.
Sieve and the Sand:	memory of Guy's day at the beach w/cousin; also, in the subway--words get lost/his mind is like a sieve--he can't hold onto a thought
Faber	reference to pencil company (Faber Castell)/pencils & erasers/writing/erasing
***Consider the lilies of the field…	Guy w/Bible on train; in Bible means lilies are so beautiful, and they don't have to toil (work at it). They don’t have to worry about technology, etc. Montag is overwhelmed by blaring advertisements on train so he can't memorize lilies quote which is very meaning ful to him.
Herc & Antaeus:	from Gk. Mythology: Antaeus defeated by Hercules; Ant. lost his strength when not connected to Earth. Herc. lifted him up into the air during the fight and Ant. lost his strength. Faber says that's how this society is--disconnected from the earth—not rooted
***Dover Beach:	poem by Matthew Arnold. Love is important. Most people don't feel love; Mrs. Phelps realizes she still does, and it upsets her. Her friends can't deal w/poetry, love, emotion and call Montag "nasty."
***A little learning...":	A. Pope--17th C.; Ties to book because if people have any learning, it'll stir things up too much and they might be able to take over government; so government wants to oppress citizens and keep them from getting knowledge
"Knowledge is power"	Same idea as above
Burning Bright"	Wm Blake's poem: Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright...***
Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun …	Icarus & Daedulus (GM)—Daedalus made wings of wax for his son, Icarus. Dad said, “Don’t fly too close to sun.” Icarus did anyway because he thought nothing bac would happen, and his wings melted and he died. Beatty compares Montag to Icarus & suggests that Montag is too big for his britches (hubris)
And on either side of the river was the tree of life..:	from the Bible—Book of Revelations; ties in because it represents hope; after this world ends, a better one will emerge

Fahrenheit 451 Review Games

These review games vary in difficulty, but they will help you prepare for the test.

Fahrenheit 451 Jeopardy Template  #1

Fahrenheit 451 Jeopardy Template  #2

http://www.quia.com/cb/100091.html : Challenge Board #1

http://www.quia.com/rr/542489.html : Rags to Riches: Rags to Riches #1

http://www.quia.com/cb/219759.html Challenge Board #2

http://www.quia.com/rr/98396.html: Rags to Riches #2

Allusions; Table of Contents for Journal #6

The pagination (page numbering) of the allusions is slightly off. In our edition, you have to flip a few pages beyond the listed pg. # to find the actual allusion.


Use this format for explaining your allusions:


1. What's the allusion?  

• p. 34, "First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin..."

2. What's the context?

• Montag is asking Beatty and others if firemen ever prevented fires in the past.

3. To what is it alluding?

• It's referring to the actual historical fact that Ben Franklin was credited with founding America's first fire brigade, but it's twisted around to say that Ben was a fire-starter, like they are.

4. How does it tie into the story? (This is your opinion.)

• It shows how Beatty (and this society) have revised history to meet their needs; they make Ben Franklin appear to be one of them.  They have no regard for the truth. Plus, he relates the information to Montag out of a rulebook.It reinforces the idea that this society is based on rules, not freedom.

Journal Grading: Thursday, 3/29

This is your sixth journal, so you know that work must be 100% complete for credit (not 99% or less).
Table of Contents for Journal #6:

JE	Left	Right
1	PW Chart RD Tribute Speech	cont’d
2	Peer Editing Sheet Essay to Speech	List of 10: 10 Interesting Facts about Ray B.
3	Foreign Phrases	Veldt Q’s & A’s
4	Venn Diagram: Veldt & Soft Rains	Lit Circles Schedule Lit Circles Info
5	Self Eval. Letter Info RD	cont’d
6	The Fifties: Read and Annotate thoroughly	Peer Learning: pre-reading terms for F451
7	F451: Vocab & Def. for Section #1	Character Chart
8	Five Fab Q’s of YOURS for F451:  Section #1	Running List of Vocab that’s new to you (list and define) Running List of Allusions Make sure you know the required allusions (see blog).
9	“Hearth” Q’s: 1-15	cont’d
10a	“Sieve and Sand” Q’s: 16-30	cont’d
10b	“Burning Bright” Q’s 31-53	cont’d

If you need to print out Lit  Circle handouts, go to the specific link you need. You can print a copy from there.

Summarizer:
    http://www.box.com/s/36fc276e960f6287a1a7
Literary Luminary:
    http://www.box.com/s/49f11cd48dd8e9b911ef
Artist:
    http://www.box.com/s/1992adcc51506e21c1cf
Discussion Director
    http://www.box.com/s/f3d0a9c208ff2e53cd59

F451 Allusions You Need to Know

 F451 Allusions

This is a list of all the allusions. 

They're pretty darn important for understanding the book.

It's ok if  you're overwhelmed by them; many of them will be unfamiliar to you. Please look them up anyway. 

This list is based on the second link (on the list in the left margin). Let me know if there are any errors from my cutting and pasting (sometimes things disappear).

 

The ones in  pink italics are the ones on which I'll test you.  

 INTRODUCTION

·     Juan Ramón Jiménez*

PART ONE:

• p. 5/p. 8: Guy Montag Clarisse McClellan: *
• p. 9: Millay, Whitman,  Faulkner
• p. 21: The Parlor:
• p. 26 and p. 28: The Hound growled. [...] "This isn't the first time it's threatened me":
• p. 27: the Phoenix: *
• p. 35: First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin:
• p. 36 and p. 40: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
• p. 37: Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine:
• p. 39: Tower of Babel:
• p. 41: "I'm full of bits and pieces", said Beatty:
• p. 50: Dante, Alighieri :Swift, Jonathan; Marcus Aurelius :
• p. 54: Civil War: Hamlet:
• p. 55: there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more:
• p. 57: Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second generation Chinese, Swedes ...:
• p. 58: the Constitution (1787):
• p. 59: People want to be happy ... Don't we give them fun?
• Little Black Sambo/Uncle Tom's Cabin:
• p. 61: We have our fingers in the dike:
• p. 66: It would be best if firemen themselves were burnt:
• p. 67: It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end:

 PART TWO:

• p. 69: The Sieve and the Sand: We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed
• p. 70: That favourite subject, Myself:
• p. 71: We've started and won two atomic wars since 1960:  
• p. 72: His name was Faber:  
• p. 73: Plato 
• p. 74: Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826): Thoreau, Henry David
• p. 76: Consider the lilies of the field*
• p. 81: Hercules ; Antaeus: *
• p. 83: Caesar, Gaius Julius "Remember Caesar, thou art mortal
• p. 84: Pirandello, Luigi, George Bernard Shaw, Shakespeare, William :
• p. 85: John Milton Sophocles
• p. 86: Aeschylus; O'Neill, Eugene
• p. 90: The Book of Job;  ... their Cheshire cat smiles:
• p. 92: In again out again Finnegan:
• p. 94: Winston Noble and Hubert Hoag:
• p. 97: Dover Beach: *
• p. 101: All isn't well with the world:
• p. 102: Who are a little wise, the best fools be:\
• p. 103: Ruth: We're all sheep who have strayed at times:  
• Truth is truth ;
• They are never alone 
• Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge:  
• Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found:  
• A little learning is a dangerous thing 
• Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ..Pierian:
• p. 104: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force... 
• He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty:
•  Truth will come to light, murder will not be hid long:  
• Oh God, he speaks only of his horse: 
• The Devil can cite Scripture for his Purpose: 
• This age thinks better of a gilded fool,than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school: 
• The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting:  
• Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer:  
• What, do I give you trench mouth? 
• Knowledge is power:* 
• A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the furthest of the two:The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof ... is inborn in us: 
• A kind of excellent dumb discourse:
• p. 105: All's well that is well in the end:

·     PART THREE:

• p. 108: Burning bright: * Old Montag wanted to fly near the Sun and ... he's burned his wings: *
• p. 112: You think you can walk on water: 
• p. 113: There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats: 
•  p. 114: Beatty flopped over ... and lay silent:  
• p. 126: Harvard degrees:  
• p. 132: Keystone Comedy:
• p. 133: he was at the river:
• p. 139: It [the fire] was not burning, it was warming:
• p. 140: My name's Granger:
• p. 143: Thomas Hardy U. C. L. A.: Ortega y Gasset, José (Columbia University:
• p. 144: Ecclesiastes : *Revelations: *Plato's Republic:*
• p. 145: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels:  
•  Charles Darwin;
• Schopenhauer, Arthur
•   Einstein, Albert'   
• Albert Schweitzer: 
• Aristophanes
• Mahatma Gandhi;  
• Gautama Buddha: 
• Thomas Love Peacock: Thomas
• Jefferson:   
• Mr. Lincoln: 
•  Byron, George Gordon Noel Lord:  
• Tom Paine (Payne):  
• Machiavelli, 
• Niccolò:
• p. 146: Thoreau's Walden or Life in the Woods;  
• Bertrand Russell:
• p. 147: Magna Charta:
• p. 151: "... disintegrate, leave no stone on another":
• p. 153: Ecclesiastes/Revelation: 
• p. 156: Phoenix:
• p. 157: To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. A time to keep silence and a time to speak: *
• And on either side of the river was there a tree of life ... And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations:

Allusions and Questions

I've begun a list of links over to the left margin. I'll add to it as the year progresses.






Allusions in F451:

• This one is the best, but you have to scroll down past the intro to get to the allusions.
• http://www.heliweb.de/telic/bradcom.htm

• This one was done by some students. It's interesting, but visually it's a bit hard to read.
• http://1102grp2.tripod.com/

Tonight's HW:

As you know, you're responsible for missed work when you're absent. So, if you were absent today, please make sure to answer the questions for "Hearth and the Salamander" (pgs. 3-68). Respond in complete sentences in JE #9/left & right. Don't flippy in the questions.


In JE #8/right, keep a running list of vocab. that's new to you and allusions you don't understand. The links above will help w/allusions.


If you don't see the questions below, try this link:


http://www.box.com/s/894abfa90f9f5f964022

Banned Books in America

History and background about banned books:

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/aboutbannedbooks

List of Classic Banned Books:

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics

F451 Vocab: "The Hearth and the Salamander"

This is your first set of vocab. words for Fahrenheit 451. The book is divided into three sections; this set is for "The Hearth and the Salamander" (pgs. 3-68).

Please know both spelling and definition for these words. Write them in JE #7/left--I'm pretty sure that's your next free JE. 

There's a good chance we'll have a vocab. test on Friday on these words.

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards

More Help for Terms

 If you're interested:


Hiroshima/Atomic Bomb: 1945

 What is McCarthyism? (Very short video)

Duck and Cover with Bert the Turtle (1950)

This is an educational film shown to elementary students instructing them about what to do in case of a nuclear attack.

More on Newspeak: 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Newspeak_words

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Quizlet will help you get the basic definition. See yesterday's post for more precise information you need to be able to share with a classmate tomorrow.


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Study these flash cards

Peer Learning Terms: Preparation for F451

One of the central themes in Fahrenheit 451 is censorship.
What is it? What examples of censorship can you think of in your own life?

Here are some specific details to help you if you're stuck on a term.

1. Utopia--just the definition
2. Newspeak--connected w/the book 1984 by George Orwell
3. McCarthyism--in general & Who was Joe McCarthy? HUAC?
4. First Amendment--What does it guarantee?
5. Red Guard--connected w/Chairman Mao & communism (Chinese)
6. American Dream--OMAM; George & Lennny's dream; 1930's...
7. Phoenix--from mythology
8. totalitarianism--a form of gov't
9. mass culture--think of the word "zeitgeist"
10. book burning--historical examples; why
11. genocide--definition/etymology (word origin)/examples
12. status quo--Latin meaning; How do we use it in everyday language?
13. heresy/heretic--definition
14. mass media--definition/examples
15. Dark Ages--When? Why dark?
16. hedonism--etymology/definition
17. Lilliput--from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; What is Lillput?
18. Dover Beach--Where is it? Who wrote the poem by the same name?
19. dissent...--definition
20. Book of Ecclesiastes--from Bible; brief summary
21. Book of Revelations--from Bible; brief summary
22. Salman Rushdie--He wrote Satanic Verses and offended many; Why?
23. P.E.N.--an organization of writers that promotes...
24. Big Brother--connected w/the book 1984 by George Orwell
25. classified information--connected w/gov't, spying, etc.
26. intellectual freedom--definition
27. taboos--definition
28. Catholic Index--This is a list of books...
29. Legion of Decency--1933; an organization that ...
30. Moral Majority--a political group...
31. Anti-Defamation League--This group fights...