VOC 4 TEST TOMORROW, THURSDAY, 10/22 

Short Story

"Masque of the Red Death"

Students will be introduced to the story, "Masque of the Red Death"

1. Review 451

-Homework is due Friday

2. Introduce Edgar Allan Poe and "Masque of the Red Death"

Goals:
Students will read about Edgar Allen Poe: Text pg. 78

it is located in the packet entitled: "Dangerous Destinies" pg 78 in GC

**There is also an annotated copy of the story in this assignment.

1. Edgar Allen Poe
www.PHSchool.com (use web code: eqe 9210)

Edgar Allan Poe- Born 1809

One of the first great American storytellers

His work helped define the  term "Short Story"

Lived a tragic life

-orphaned at the age of 3

-Lived with a foster family -The Allans (his middle name)

-They paid for his college - However, they stopped paying when Edgar ran up gambling debts

--Married Virginia Clemm- died from tuberculous in 1887

-Poe became antisocial and depressed

-Was found delirious on a Baltimore street and died three days later- 1849

2. Students will discuss the Red Death: 
-Ring Around the Rosy: Ring around the Rosy? Yes, you read it right. Most all of us know this common nursery rhyme, but do you know where it originated? Ring around the Rosy is actually a song about the Black Plague that originated in England. It says, "Ring around the rosy" meaning the red, rosy rings that form around the sores when you are infected. "Pocket full of Posy" resembles the sweet-smelling herbs, called posies, that were placed in peoples' pockets because they thought that bad smells contracted disease. "Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down" is translated to be the massive amounts of death and cremation of bodies during the 14th century in Europe when the disease broke out. Not such a fun and friendly nursery rhyme anymore, is it?

-Facts about the Black Death- http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/06/09_black-death.html

3.Students will learn about Symbolism-
Students will read page 338 in their text

- Symbols around us; In pairs, students should make a list of symbols encountered in everyday life...for example:  A green light tells you that it is your turn to go;  A red light tells you that it is your turn to stop;  A bell may signal the beginning of the school day 

Allegory -
An allegory is a story intended to be read on a symbolic level.  In an allegorical story, the characters, settings and events are intended to have meanings independent of the actions in the surface story.  For example, a story may stand for the entire world.  In fact, the entire story can be seen as a symbol representing a truth about a condition of life. 

Now it is your turn: List as many symbols as you can and indicate their meaning

Read page 173-174 Only

Identify the allegorical symbols:

Prince Prospero

The brazier of fire

the 7 rooms

the colors of the 7 rooms

What is an allegory?

NO HOMEWORK:  STUDY FOR VOC 4 TEST TOMORROW

Finish 451

1. We will go over the first two questions.  Then we will discuss Bradbury's purpose and the Symbolism in the novel.

 2. Bradbury's Purpose:

-an expression of optimism for mankind

-The results of the rule of the majority:  Conformity

-A warning against the dangerous trends in American society (violence, self-destruction, escapism)

-The desire of the importance of literature, "quality information"

3. Symbols

-Explain the significance of any one symbol used in the novel:

Phoenix, Hound, the parlor walls

-Discuss the allegorical meaning throughout the novel

-Your test will be tomorrow, Tuesday, 10/20

-After the test, you will be introduced to two works by Edgar Allen Poe....Let's read two stories appropriate for the Halloween Season....They will be posted on tomorrow's blog.

-After the test, we will go over Vocab lesson 4

-vocab 4 Test: Thursday, 10/22

451 Ch 3

Friday - 10/9

-Complete and turn in vocab 4 to GC before class

-Write 10 original sentences, highlight context clues, and bold or underline the word

Homework for Monday- 10/12

Read up to the middle of page 145 

Complete the packet work up to and including question 7

Monday, 10/12-

Review ch. 3 up to page 145

Discuss packet questions

Hmk for Tuesday, 10/13

Finish the book and packet

Tuesday, 10/12

Review book and packet

Discuss the ending of the novel.

-Theme

-Allegorical meanings 

-Character Analysis

1. Analyze Mildred Montag. Is she truly happy leading a life blind to reality? Use specific examples from the text in your argument.

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   Symbols are very important in Fahrenheit 451. Name three specific symbols and outline their references and meanings throughout the novel.

3. 
   

   Discuss the complexities of Bradbury's message. Is he against all forms of censorship? Do you think a society such as this could ever truly exist? What aspects of this society does Bradbury appear to detest the most?

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   Compare and contrast Mildred and Clarisse. How did each woman come to exist? What roles do they play in society? Can either truly survive?

Group discussion:  You will be broken into groups and use Jamboard.  You will present your Board for discussion.  Be sure to include a thesis and blueprint when you create an over view paragraph.  You must include page numbers, quotes, and specific detail.

1. Man's search for what is true

-explain Montag's conflict

Montag's conflict is __ because ___, ______, and _______.

-Explain how Montag is a hero

Give and explain three reasons why M is a hero

2. Bradbury's Purpose:

-an expression of optimism for mankind

-The results of the rule of the majority:  Conformity

-A warning against the dangerous trends in American society (violence, self-destruction, escapism)

-The desire of the importance of literature, "quality information"

3. Symbols

-Explain the significance of any one symbol used in the novel:

Phoenix, Hound, the parlor walls

-Discuss the allegorical meaning throughout the novel

Wednesday, 10/13

Finish discussion on 451

Thursday, 10/14

451 Test

451 ch 2

Friday, 10/2-

1. Finish Jam Board/ Characterization project

Homework for Monday, 10/5

Read up to page  

-110 in 451  

-Complete the packet and turn it in to GC before class on Monday, 10/5

-complete Chapter 2 451 vocab

Monday, 10/5

Finish discussion on ch. 2

Review packet questions

Tuesday, 10/6

Tuesday Bell ringer:  (Happy Tuesday!!!)

What actual historical events does Bradbury metaphorically represent up to this point in the novel.?

451 Chapter 2 Test

We will begin Chapter 3 in class

**Jam Board projects are due before class today!!

Wednesday, 10/7

**Vocab 3 test

Friday, 10/9

You will complete lesson 4 for Friday, 10/9

CC.1.2.9-10.A: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

451 - Chapter 1 (Read up to 68 for Monday, 9/28)

 Hello Wonderful Integrated Class!!

I am updating the blog to make it very clear what will be due.

 

We will begin on Monday, 9/28 with the bell ringers that were missed.

Write five sentences that include factual conclusion about Mildred

Write 5 sentences about Montag's home life.

Classwork:

Goals: 

1. Students will review the packet questions
2. Students will review and discuss sections of the text
3. Students will continue reading the text.

Monday, 9/28

Read up to page 68 in the book (Section 1)

Answer packet questions (Before you enter class)

In class on Monday:

1. Students will review the packet questions
2. Students will review and discuss sections of the text
3. Students will continue reading the text.

Tuesday, 9/29

Work on Characterization project

**Using textual evidence/ page numbers

Wednesday,9/30

Chapter 1 test (I changed the test to Wednesday, 9/30)

Thursday,10/1

Read up to page 87

Answer the Packet questions up to page 87

Continue to review 451 up to page 87

Friday,10/2

**Vocab 3 test

Monday, 10/5

***Your next vocab assignment will be given to you next week.  You will complete lesson 4 for Monday, 10/5

Read up to page 101 for Monday, 10/5 and complete the packet questions

CC.1.2.9-10.A: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

451 CH 1

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451 - Chapter 1

Goal: Students will analyze comparisons to this Not so "future" society.
Students will read, discuss and analyze pages 1-40 of 451

Bell Ringer:

Monday 9/21

Type 1 writing:

Write five sentences about Montag's interaction with Clarisse

Tuesday: 9/22

Find 2 similarities between our society and the society in this book

Wednesday 9/23

Type 1 writing:

Write five sentences about Montag's interaction with Beatty at the fire station

Thursday 9/24

  Write five sentences that include factual conclusion about Mildred

Write 5 sentences about Montag's home life.

Classwork:

Goals: 

1. Students will review the packet questions
2. Students will review and discuss sections of the text
3. Students will continue reading the text.

Monday, 9/21-

(In class)

-Review Voc 3

-Review Web Quests

-Discuss 451 up to page 27

-Discuss 451 packet work and Ch1 vocab from novel

-Hmk for Wednesday, 9/23- Read up to page 40 and complete packet work

Tuesday, 9/22

-Go over Vocabulary 3

-Review Vocab ch 1 451.  

-Introduce the short story "Masque of the Red Death"

Wednesday, 9/23

-Review 451 up to page 40 and discuss packet work

9/24

-Review the quiz (Pgs 1-40)

-Discuss the packet questions

**Vocab 3 test- Thursday, 10/1

***Your next vocab assignment will be given to you next week.  You will complete lesson 4 for Friday, 10/2

Due Monday, 9/28

Read up to page 88 in the book

Answer packet questions

1. Students will review the packet questions
2. Students will review and discuss sections of the text
3. Students will continue reading the text.

Chapter 1 test (451)- 

Tuesday, 9/29

CC.1.2.9-10.A: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

451 intro and web quest

 (Wednesday, 9/16) Today in class, we will work on the Web Quest 

1.  451 Webquest - We will be working on the web quest in class 

                          -It will be due on Thursday, 9/17 -www.turnitin.com

2. We will turn in the final drafts of your essay to www.turnitin.com in class today

Thursday, 9/17- We will review the Web Quest (It must be turned in before you enter class.  You should be completing your answers on a Word or Google Doc)

Friday, 9/18 Vocab 3 Test

Homework:

Weekend homework:  Read up to page 40  in 451, Due Monday, 9/21

Begin on Page 14- "if they give your ruled paper, write the other way"

complete corresponding packet work including the Vocab for ch 1

Monday, 9/21- We will review Vocab 3 in class and continue with 451

-We will review the reading and packet work.  

-Also, complete the 451 vocabulary for Chapter 1 (Homework for Monday, 9/21)

Surprise Endings.

 

I. Context Clues:

1. The pillar IMPEDED my ability to see the screen

A. Halt; stopping    B. Poverty  C.Route; travel plan   D. Blocked; obstructed E. Plots; schemes

2. After the sudden CESSATION of the car alarm, the silence seemed deep.
A. Halt; stopping B. Poverty C.Route; travel plan D. Blocked; obstructed E. Plots; schemes

3. As part of our ITINERARY, we will be in Cleveland on Saturday.
A. Halt; stopping B. Poverty C.Route; travel plan D. Blocked; obstructed E. Plots; schemes

2. Gift of the Magi

9/14  

O Henry - William Sydney Porter 
began writing career under difficult circumstances:  He was in prison
Great short story writer
Born: North Carolina
Embezzled money and fled to Honduras
Returned to Texas to learn his wife was dying
She died, he was arrested and sent to prison in Ohio
1902 - Moved to NYC
Jobs: Worked in drug store, reporter, banker

Situational Irony - Occurs when the outcome is the opposite of what a character or reader expects.

Surprise Ending - A literary device that creates sudden irony.  A good reader will find clues throughout  the story.

3. Turn in your final rough draft and outline before class tomorrow, 9/15

4. Study for your Short Story Terms test tomorrow, 9/15

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5. Intro to Fahrenheit 451

1. -Pass out 451 books and Packets.

Ray Bradbury introduction

*Bradbury hated computers, never wanted to drive, wrote 451 in less than a week, had his first work published at 14

Ray Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947. 

His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and then, in 1953, Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece, a scathing indictment of censorship set in a future world where the written word is forbidden. In an attempt to salvage their history and culture, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy as their books are burned by the totalitarian state. Other works include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric!, Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury has published more than thirty books, close to 600 short stories, and numerous poems, essays, and plays. His short stories have appeared in more than 1,000 school curriculum "recommended reading" anthologies. 

2. Read the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

How does this apply to your life?

 2. Copy the Character List into your Integrated GC folder;  Make a specific folder entitled: 451  :

Guy Montag The protagonist, an unhappy, complacent man who is thirty years old. He has been a fireman for ten years. He meets Clarisse and finds that her outlook on life is refreshing.

Mildred Montag (Millie) Guy's self-destructive wife, also thirty years old, who reveals to Montag the alienated existence of citizens in his society. She has never wanted children and considers her family to be television characters.

Clarisse McClellan Montag's new neighbor, seventeen years old, who calls herself crazy and enjoys conversations. Her recalcitrance and nonconformity allow Montag to discover how jaded his view of life has become.

Captain Beatty The antagonist of the book and Montag's superior, the Fire Captain, who functions as the apologist for the dystopian culture in which Montag lives. He is well read and uses his knowledge of books as a weapon to fight curiosity about them.

Mechanical Hound A machine, similar to a trained killer dog that the firefighters use to track down and capture criminals. The Hound disables and kills offenders with a morphine or procaine needle.

Unidentified Woman A woman from the ancient part of the city. Her martyrdom reveals to Montag the power of civil disobedience, books, and ideas.

Faber An elderly man, a retired English professor who is an underground, though ineffectual, scholar. He becomes Montag's ally and mentor.

Granger An ex-writer who is the unacknowledged leader of the social outcasts and criminals. He unites the group to keep the content of books safe.

Stoneman and Black Montag's fellow firemen who are conformists, and conservatives. Together with Beatty, they form Montag's familiar working colleagues.

Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles Millie's friends who do not question the social structure. Their husbands are called away to war. They also view the television characters as their families and become agitated when Montag reads to them.

Fred Clement, Dr. Simmons, Professor West, Reverend Padover, and Harris in Youngstown Social outcasts and criminals who are led by Granger. They choose and memorize a book to ensure that the story is never forgotten.

3. Read the following overview:

     Guy Montag is a fireman who lives in a society in which books are illegal. His job is not to

extinguish fires, but to light them. He burns books, and all the firemen

wear the number "451" on their uniforms because that is the temperature

at which books burn.

     But the role reversal of the firemen is not the only difference between

present-day society and the world in which Montag lives. People of

Montag's world take no interest in politics or world issues. The only point

of life is pleasure. Montag's wife, Mildred, spends her time watching the

televisions that take up three of the four walls in their parlor, or listening

to the seashell radios that fit snugly in the ear. It isn't until Montag meets

a young girl named Clarisse that he realizes that there might be more to

life than the electronic entertainment that absorbs everyone. Clarisse

makes him think about the world beyond the wall television and seashell

radios; she makes him wonder about life

4.  451 Webquest - We will begin working on the webquest in class on , 9/14-9/15 (for parts of the class)

                          -I will give you time to start it/ work on it in class today and tomorrow.

                          -It will be due on Thursday, 9/17 -www.turnitin.com

Montag, Mildred, Beatty, Granger

Weekend homework:  Read up to page 40  in 451, Due Monday, 9/21

Begin on Page 14- "if they give your ruled paper, write the other way"

complete corresponding packet work.

Voc 3, Essay, and "Gift of the Magi"

 Thursday, 9/10- Voc 2 test

We will also have a few minutes to discuss your Rough Drafts

Friday, 9/11- Review Voc 3

Lesson is due to Google Classroom before we enter class

Sentences are due to www.turnin.com before we enter class

Read 

Homework:

Essays are due on Monday, 9/14

Please read the following story for this class

1. Students will read "The Gift of the Magi" on page 456  of their Packet The Lighter Side.

It is in your Google Classroom.

-Begin reading the information about the author

A. Highlight key points

B. Take notes in the margins

C. Bring your marked up copy to class

 
2. Students will be introduced to IRONY and SURPRISE endings

Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets - Review

 

Remember to join class on your virtual days this week.  Thank you soooo much for your cooperation as we figure this out.

I. Context Clues:

1. The pillar IMPEDED my ability to see the screen

A. Halt; stopping    B. Poverty  C.Route; travel plan   D. Blocked; obstructed E. Plots; schemes

2. After the sudden CESSATION of the car alarm, the silence seemed deep.
A. Halt; stopping B. Poverty C.Route; travel plan D. Blocked; obstructed E. Plots; schemes

3. As part of our ITINERARY, we will be in Cleveland on Saturday.
A. Halt; stopping B. Poverty C.Route; travel plan D. Blocked; obstructed E. Plots; schemes

II. Short Story Review

1. Review "Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets" pgs. 2-19 (Packet in GC)

2. Discuss why people take risks

3. Discuss and analyze the outcome of the story

4. Review questions: 1-3 under Literary Focus: Suspense

5. Paragraph/ Essay Question: Why did the author entitle the story "Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets"?

III. Discuss Rough Draft Tuesday, 9/7 and Wednesday, 9/8

1.  Rough Draft is due on Wednesday, 9/9 before entering class

-Review rules

2. Set up www.grammarly.com/edu accounts

3. Final Drafts are due on Monday, 9/14 before entering class

IV. Voc 2 Test:  Thursday (9/10)

V. Voc 3 is due on Friday, 9/11 turn it in to GC

Voc 3 Sentences due on Friday, 9/11- Turn sentences in to www.turnitin.com

1.3- Read, analyze and interpret literature

1.3.9.C:   Analyze the use and effectiveness of literary elements used by one or more authors, including characterization, setting, plot, theme, point of view, tone, mood, and style.

1.3.9.D:   Analyze the use and effectiveness of literary devices (e.g., personification, simile, alliteration, symbolism, metaphor, hyperbole, imagery, foreshadowing, and flashback) used by one or more authors in a variety of genres.

Voc 2 and First Rough Draft

Happy Friday

HERE IS THE PLAN FOR TODAY

1. Today in class, we are going to go over the Voc 2 lesson.

2. Initial rough drafts (Rough Draft #1) is due if you want to talk about it or have a questions.

-Remember, I will go over any questions today.  Just let me know you have questions, and we will set up a virtual meeting throughout the day)

**I am setting up a turnitin link for anyone who would like to discuss their rough draft TODAY, 9/4

If you can't schedule a time to meet, you may submit your rough draft and ask questions DIRECTLY ON  your essay.

The turnitin link will be called:  Friday Rough Draft Review

3. Final rough Draft is due on Wednesday, 9/9- turnitin.com  (Before virtual class)

**I would like to give you the opportunity to discuss your rough draft with me.

4. Run your paper through www.grammarly.com/edu  (We may set these accounts up after vocab if we have time)

5. Turn in your final draft by Monday, 9/14- turnitin.com

**Please note, I will make times to schedule meetings next Friday, BEFORE THE FINAL DRAFT.