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-Vocabulary Test 5
-F451 Test review for Friday
         Characters: Montag, Beatty, Clarisse, Mildred, Faber, Granger, the intellectual travelers
         Symbols: hound, river, books, fire, tv wall, fake Montag
         Setting: houses, city, other side of the river, river, railroad tracks, return to the city
         Other: character evolution, the future, fears and possibilities of Bradbury's, the "problem"

10H
-Vocab List 5: prolific, charlatan, corroborate, disseminate, diverge, dormant, illicit, irrevocable, precipitate, hoist
-Finish "Reading Images" work from yesterday in class
-For Friday, apply the four bullet points from RI to "A Heartbreaking Work..."
        -Observations
        -Connections in the observations (questions and possibilities)
        -Inferences based on what you observe and connect
        -Tentative conclusions

10
-F451 Review and read time
-Vocabulary test tomorrow---Don't Forget!

10H
-Finish Heartbreaking Work excerpt
-Apply the bullet points from "Reading Images" to the image in the article.  Read the article and prepare for discussion on Wed/Thurs.  You should take notes in reference to both the concept of reading images as well as to the image in the article itself.

10
Response Journal on GC
F451 Schedule: Finish book (final section pg. 133-158) and be able to answer the following questions:
-What is the "game" the citizens play in the hunt for Montag and how does the search for him end?
-What is the difference between mankind and the phoenix?
-By crossing the river, what tradeoff have the intellectual travelers made in life?
-How is their return to the city a natural continuation of Montag's course of action/behavior since meeting Clarisse?
-Why are they returning to the city rather than forming their own new society?

                     

F451 Test will be Friday!!!!!!!

10H

Group progress meetings

Read the Heartbreaking Work excerpt and respond on GC
*There were 5 no-names on Wordwright #1.  Two of them have notes written on them.  If you took it and you don't have a grade you need to check in with me.  It's pretty tough to read handwriting based on your style of circling a letter, so you will probably need to retake it.

10
Hand back and go over Vocab Test 4
Vocab list 5: charlatan, corroborate, disseminate, diverge, dormant, hoist, illicit, irrevocable, precipitate, prolific
F451 Book 3 (Burning Bright) short answer questions
In class extra credit
Reading targets for Monday: Pg. 133
-Journey to the river
-Final meeting with Faber
-The "decision" that Montag makes

10H
Details art replication project introduction
Groups chosen
Work time in library
All resources for the project, including the assignment sheet, can be found on the Art Replication Page

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Watch Dustin Yellin: A Journey Through the Mind of an Artist and then answer the following questions in small groups (on your own if absent)
-What do Dustin Yellin and Montag have in common in regard to views, values, and how they evolve in their choices?
-Why does Montag enjoy burning his own house?
-Why does Montag repeatedly ask whether Mildred is the one who turned him in?  Why would this matter at this stage in his life?
-Why does Montag burn Beatty?
Each question has: 1. A literal answer   2. An explanation based answer    3. A real life application

10H
Discussion of Gordon Parks photo assignments.  Everyone who was present (not on Laurenzo's field trip) got to explain: 1. The physical detail elements of their photo that stood out    2. The emotion/feeling word they attached to the photo.
View Grant Wood's "American Gothic" side by side (JUXTAPOSE!!!!!) with Gordon Parks' "American Gothic" and make a list of details that you note upon close viewing.  Focus on tangible (angles, focus, shadow/light, objects, etc.) and intangible (facial expression, mood/tone, interpretation, etc.)

10
GC Response Journal #4: A Blessing and a Curse
All class revision/discussion of Book 2 quiz from Friday
Read pg. 107-115 for tomorrow with following objectives in mind:
       -Montag's emotional and mental evolution
       -After his choice, how will the conflict morph from internal to external?
       -Changing from thought to action based responses
       -Causation vs. Correlation

10H
Wordwright 1: Remember that you set the grading scale, so don't talk about it even after you have taken it.  There might be someone who was absent who needs to make it up and that could change the entire scale.
Tomorrow we will look more closely into the link between visual imagery and literature using the Gordon Parks photography assignment, as well as additional resources, in preparation for both the art replication project as well as our class continuation into the memoir/personal narrative .

Friday Oct. 16th

Parade/Assembly Day: short schedule

10
F451 The Sieve and the Sand quiz

10H
Finish GP photo assignment

10
Notes for tomorrow's quiz:
Montag and Mildred and their values 67-70
Mildred's friends (mental state) 90-97
Subway ride and Faber visit (Montag's mission) 75-89
Faber and the earpiece 99-106
Return to the firehouse (Faber vs Beatty on books and their effects on us) 100-106

10H
Choice of Weapons time line design
Addition to G Parks photo assignment on GC. Find a second photo that elicits the OPPOSITE emotional reaction as the first one. Explain but do not compare the two.
REMEMBER: WORDWRIGHT WILL BE MONDAY

10
Vocab Test 4
F451 ?'s are posted on GC.  You should be through pg. 105 by Thursday

10H
Response Journal 6 on GC: A time you felt categorized unfairly...
Read "A Choice of Weapons" on pg. 470
Mood timeline in notebook for ACOW: every time a mood shift occurs, note what happened and how the mood changed.
See GC for Gordon Parks photo assignment for Thursday

10 and 10H
Common Skills Assessment and PSAT practice

10
Vocab 3 test review
Vocab List 4: zenith, ubiquitous, berate, estrange, euphoric, impetuous, infallible, relinquish, regress, maudlin
F451 Quiz 48-65.  You should be pushing into the 100's by next week on the page count.
Vocabulary Test 4 will be on Tuesday, October 13th next week due to the adjusted schedule.


10H
My Two Lives discussion prior to vocab test 4
Vocab Test 4

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-F451 group work from 48-65 section.  Group categories: The woman who burned herself to death.  Beatty's visit to Montag. Mildred's driving for stress release. Reading books together.  Clarisse's impact after her death.
-48-65 quiz tomorrow/Thursday.

10H
-Read "My Two Lives" on pg. 448
-Group prep for response writing on vocabulary test over My Two Lives.  These are the relevant controlling ideas: Immigrant's Journey, Death of Parents/Later in Life, Cultural Identity, Immediate Family/ Society and Friends, Personal Legacy.
-Response writing on Vocab 4 will center around the concepts of cultural identity and values within a society with the following image incorporated.

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Response Journal on GC
Hand back and review F451 quiz 1
Revision on F451 quiz 2

10H
Response Journal on GC
Read "Writers on Writing" article on pg. 438 in text: Identify and analyze as many instances in the piece that convey a sense of understanding/perspective on non-fiction literature.
Remember vocab test on Wed/Thurs

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F451 Quiz 2.
Quiz 1 revision
Continue reading

10H
Short Story/Poetry Test