Book Burning Silent Discussion Fahrenheit 451

Silent Discussion Procedures & Expectations Each person needs to write their name at the top of a piece of paper. There will be a quote and prompt(s) on the board that you will have 3 minutes to respond to. After 3 minutes you will pass your paper to the person behind you and they will write their name and then have 2 minutes to read what was written and respond. Papers will be returned when a new prompt is to be discussed. Remember to write your name next to each thing you write on each different sheet of paper.

Ray Bradbury “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

Fahrenheit 451 “[A] man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper” (55).

William Stafford “If a book / isn’t written, no one needs to burn it” (193).

Fahrenheit 451 “It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God” (61).

Kurt Vonnegut “If you were to bother to read my books … you would learn that … They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are” (191).

Fahrenheit 451 “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon” (62).

Heinrich Heine "Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people."