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Vocabulary Test 3
Guiding Questions for F451 reading section two:

In regards to the mechanical hound at the fire station, why does Montag somewhat feel sorry for it? (“That’s sad,” said Montag.)

Describe the difference between Clarisse’s view of being “social” and her school’s view of being “social”.

What reason does Clarisse have for being afraid of children her own age?

Explain what the woman with the books did on her front porch when the firemen were trying to get her out of the house.

What is the question Montag asks Mildred that neither of them know the answer to and how is it symbolic of how his view on life is changing?

How does the following quote help define Montag’s marriage?
“Well, wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred, when you came down to it? Literally not just one wall but, so far, three!”

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Vocabulary Test 3 Review

Vocabulary List 4: berate, estrange, euphoric, impetuous, infallible, maudlin, regress, relinquish, ubiquitous, zenith

Finish Gic to Har

Go over short story/poetry test content

Distribute Nabakov's "Good Readers and Good Writers"

In class time to prepare for test (open note/book) on Friday

If you have work to make up, it is your responsibility to establish a time to do it and to get it done.

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NRI survey. F451 guiding questions in class. Quiz 2 question preview. Vocab test tomorrow.

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NRI survey. Gic to Har explication. Short story/poetry test this Friday.

Monday 9/28

I was absent.  All classes worked on previously assigned material.

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F451 Introduction Analysis
F451 open book quiz
NRI

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Finish Lying in a Hammock analysis/discussion.  Breakdown of the last line (I have wasted my life) on its own.
Read and complete the following for Monday:

Gic to Har

by Kenneth Rexroth

It is late at night, cold and damp
The air is filled with tobacco smoke.
My brain is worried and tired.
I pick up the encyclopedia,
The volume GIC to HAR,
It seems I have read everything in it,
So many other nights like this.
I sit staring empty-headed at the article Grosbeak,
Listening to the long rattle and pound
Of freight cars and switch engines in the distance.
Suddenly I remember
Coming home from swimming
In Ten Mile Creek,
Over the long moraine in the early summer evening,
My hair wet, smelling of waterweeds and mud.
I remember a sycamore in front of a ruined farmhouse,
And instantly and clearly the revelation
Of a song of incredible purity and joy,
My first rose-breasted grosbeak,
Facing the low sun, his body
Suffused with light.
I was motionless and cold in the hot evening
Until he flew away, and I went on knowing
In my twelfth year one of the great things
Of my life had happened.
Thirty factories empty their refuse in the creek.
On the parched lawns are starlings, alien and aggressive.
And I am on the other side of the continent
Ten years in an unfriendly city.



Assignment:
-Two dialectical journal entries with specific lines
-1 observation for each of the 10 primary literary terms: theme, tone, mood, characterization, syntax, diction, imagery, irony, universal quality, big picture.  These should focus on use/purpose rather than just identification.
-1 five step paragraph up to your interpretation. If you focus on the poem, use lit terms as examples of how your interpretation is achieved. If you focus on a lit term or terms, use examples from the poem to show how/what the purpose of those terms is.