1. Fahrenheit 451
Day 6

2. Your phone is in your backpack or in the drawer.
When you enter class…
Your phone is in your backpack or in the drawer.
Take out the following:
Unit Guide
Reading Goals sheet
Your Droid paragraph from last class
“I Am Mildred”
Vocabulary List 2

3. homogeneous
The puzzle pieces, each unique when turned face up, are ____________when facing down.

4. incredulous
Spock was _____________ upon hearing that the latest Star Trek Convention would be cancelled due to low turnout.

5. ingratiate
During the interview, David tried a little too hard to ____________ himself with Mr. Snood.

6. immutable
His wife hated it, but George’s cat tattoo was _________________.

7. imminent
Disaster was ____________.

8. Today Warm-up: Vocab Social Commentary – “I Am Mildred”
Fahrenheit 451 Quiz 5
Introduce Synthesis Essay
Droid Ad – Evaluate paragraph
Script activity
HW:
1. Read through 141
2. Annotate script

10. “I Am Mildred” Read these aloud in your groups of 4-5.
Select one sentence from the best one to read aloud to the class.
Imagine Mildred lives in our society. What would she use to distract herself from reality? Write a monologue from Mildred’s perspective that begins with "Hello, I am Mildred" and goes on to give details of her daily activities (in OUR world; not the one from the book). Your monologue should be between 200 and 300 words.

11. Social Commentary
How did the pieces you just wrote qualify as social commentary? Use the definition and specifics from your writing to explain.

12. Prompt
Listen to the ad and write a paragraph that compares and contrasts the ad and the novel in some way. Use quotes and/or specific details from the ad and the novel in your paragraph.

13. Rubric
Commentary
15 Thoughtful explanation details how the evidence supports the main idea. Convincing elaboration often refers back to specific items within quotes.
13 Clear explanation touches on how the evidence supports the main idea. Elaboration is general and short of convincing.
11 Vague explanation hints at a connection between evidence and main idea. Repeats claim rather than elaborating.
10 or lower Incomplete. Summarizes. Off topic. Ignores quotes.

14. Example Paragraph
Both the Droid 2 ad and Fahrenheit 451 convey technology’s ability to blur the line between man and machine. In the radio spot, the narrator claims that with the new Droid 2, it is hard to tell “where it ends, and you begin.” He then goes on to describe how your eyeballs can “feast on the web in all its video-rich glory,” ultimately turning the user “into a machine of efficiency.” The suggestion is clear: with new technologies (in this case a cell phone) we can become more machine-like, which presumably gives us more capabilities than before. On the other hand, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 suggests a comparable relationship between technology and humans, but through the machine instead of the person. When introducing the Mechanical Hound, he describes it as an eight-legged robotic dog that “lived, but did not live… in a dark corner of the firehouse” (21-22). By suggesting it “lived,” Bradbury means that it is given life by its ability to move and hunt; however, like the people of the society, it does not truly live a meaningful life, as all it does is exist in ignorance.

15. How would this score on the rubric?

16. Quizzes
Nothing on the desk except the test and unit guide. No pencil pouches or cell phones.
Write your name on your quiz.
Record your reading habits on your reading goals sheet.
Read Synthesis Paper Instructions when finished.

17. Synthesis Writing
How is this different from comparing and contrasting two books?

18. Droid Paragraph
How would you revise your paragraph if you wanted to make it into a synthesis paragraph?
What would your response be to the conversation between the authors?