1. Fahrenheit 451
Cycle 2, Day 3

2. Agenda Reading Goal: Today’s Big Question: Team Cooperation Goal:
Identify dynamic vs. static character.
Today’s Big Question:
Is it important to be able to change one’s attitudes and/or perceptions?
Team Cooperation Goal:
help and encourage others

3. Background T-P-S
Has Montag been able to change Mildred’s opinions about books? Why or why not?
Do you think that Mildred will change? Why or why not?
What about Beatty? Make a Character Map for Beatty.

4. Dynamic or Static? T-P-S
Compare your character map of Montag to Beatty. Which one is dynamic? Which one is static? How do you know?
Do you think that Mildred is a static or dynamic character? Why?

5. Listening Listen to pgs 71-75. T-P-S
What changes in Montag’s character does the author continue to reveal to us?
What causes Montag to remember his meeting a year ago with Faber, the man in the park?
Create a Character Map for Faber. Traits: afraid and intelligent. Find exmples.

6. Vocabulary Word Definition Ravenous Very hungry Cacophony
Loud, unpleasant, chaotic noise
Feigning
Pretending
Censorship
The forbidding or removing of information
Exploitation
The unfair or selfish use of a person or thing
Inefficient
Wasteful or not effective in completing a task
Immense
Extremely large
Midst
In the middle of

7. Partner read pgs 75-82, stopping at “books might help.”
Why does Montag compare Mildred to a wax doll?
What does Montag’s question to Mildred, about whether her TV family loves her, reveal about his changing , dynamic character?
Why does Montag remember trying to fill a sieve with sand when he was a child?
Is Faber a static or dynamic character when we first meet him? (write)