1. Do Now: The Mega Paragraph aka the Ultimate Summary!
Summarize the plot of Fahrenheit 451 in 6-8 sentences.
Start each sentence on a new line. You have 7 minutes. And GO!!!!
In 4 sentences
In 1 sentence
In 6-8 words
In a word
Choose your words wisely…
Godspeed on this Do Now, Daniel Horksy 

2. Scene 1: Boy Meets Girl
This is the scene where Montag first sees Clarisse. He describes her to be in a white dress, possess skin of porcelain, and cast a strange otherworldy spell on him. She has eyes that are like mirrors. And when he met her, his life changed forever.

3. Scene 2: The Overdose
When Montag gets home after meeting Clarisse, he finds that his wife, Mildred, overdosed on sleeping pills.

4. Scene 3: Joan of Arc
A woman has possessed a large amount of books, and the firemen are prepared to burn her and the books down. However, instead of getting out of the house, the woman chooses to die by letting herself burn with the books. Montag, curious, then steals one of the lady's books just before she lights her house on fire.

5. Scene 4: Clarisse's Death
From Mildred, Montag learns of Clarisse's death. It was believed that she was hit by a car while she was walking as a pedestrian.

6. Scene 5: The Lecture
Shortly after Montag is about to call in sick for work, Beatty comes over to Montag's house to lecture him about the history of firemen and the history of books.

7. Scene 6: The Books
This picture represents the plethora of books that fall from the ventilator grill. After Beatty leaves, Montag reveals to Mildred the large book collection that he's accumulated in the ventilator over the past few years.

8. Scene 7: The Three Useless Nonsensical Ladies Watching TV
Mildred invites a few friends over to watch TV with her. The TVs in Fahrenheit 451 are huge and take up whole walls. While they are over, they frustrate Montag with their useless talk, and their useless TV shows.

9. Scene 8: Poems & Tears
After Montag is at his wit's end with Mildred's friends, he decides to read a poem to them, nearly blowing Faber and Montag's cover. After finishing one poem, Mrs. Phelps (Mildred's friend) ends up crying for an unknown reason.

10. Scene 9: Montag Burns His House
After Mildred calls in a fire alarm for her own house, Montag is forced (by Beatty) to burn his own house down because of the books that were in there.  In a way, Montag finds it strangely cleansing because he feels that burning his old life would let him start a new one.

11. Scene 10: Beatty's Death
After Montag burns his house down, Beatty finds out about Montag's plan to restore society and bring back books and thorough thinkers. After being threatened, Montag burns Beatty.

12. Scene 11: Montag's Leap of Faith
After burning Beatty and killing a Mechanical Hound, Montag flees the scene and runs away to Faber's house. There, he makes a plan to run away and out of the city before he is caught.

13. Scene 12: The River
When Montag reaches the river and dives in, he suddenly feels calm and lets all his old memories and sad thoughts drift away downstream. While he is here, he looks at the sky and realizes that all he wants is to change the world and change his life. 

14. Scene 13: The Countryside
When Montag gets out of the river and passed the railroad tracks, he finally finds himself out in the open on the countryside. Here he finds a group of well-educated men who are authors, reverends, and real thinkers. Together, they make a plan to change society. When society is finally burned and gone, they play to restore it and rebuild everything.

15. Scene 14: The City Replenishes
Montag takes one last look at the burning city. One last look at the city that's being destroyed and bombed in the war. He then moves on, and plans to make a new beginning rise out of the ashes.

16. Identifying Themes, Literary Devices, & Archetypes
Fahrenheit 451
Identifying Themes, Literary Devices,
& Archetypes

17. Themes
Technology Censorship Ignorance vs. Knowledge Conformity vs. Individuality Action vs. Inaction Distraction vs. Happiness
Without thinking about Fahrenheit 451, how do each of these themes relate or build off of each other?

18. Ray Bradbury once said…
"After all, a computer is a book and a long-playing record is a book—they just have different shapes."
Respond to the following quote on the same page as your summaries.
What do you think Bradbury meant by this? Do you agree or disagree? 

19. Role of Technology in F° ?
Parlor Walls
Mechanical Hound
Sleeping pills
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How does technology contribute to the deficits and problems with society in the story? Are people dumber, more ignorant, or less human/social? How does technology influence us today?

20. Technology Today?

21. Dependency on Technology and Its Effects on Us

22. Censorship in F° 451?
Is there a connection between censorship and technology in Fahrenheit 451? Censorship and technology in our society?
How was information controlled in Fahrenheit 451?
Think about the history lesson Beatty gives to Montag about the history of the fire department. Was history rewritten? Why do you think so? Draw parallels to 1984.

23. FREADOM Freedom of speech is our most basic and important right. Why?
How does controlling what we are able to read and learn dictate power?

24. Closing books… shuts out ideas

25. Ignorance vs. Knowledge in F° 451?
How does Mildred represent the ignorance is bliss mentality?
Montag has two life changing experiences in The Hearth and the Salamander. Identify and then explain both of them.
Does knowledge set you free?

26. Conformity vs. Individuality in F° 451?
Explain self-absorption in the context of Fahrenheit 451.
How does the government control individuals to promote conformity? (Relate back to censorship!!!!)
Psychiatrist visits
Beatty on political correctness
McCarthyism
“Bland and blend”

27. Action vs. Inaction in F° 451?
How does ignorance and enlightenment AND conformity and individualism lead to either action or inaction in Fahrenheit 451.
What causes people to be indifferent? In what ways are you indifferent or passive when you can or should take action? What stops you from acting?
Are you an inaction figure?

28. Distraction vs. Happiness in F° 451?
How do all of these themes connect to happiness?
Happiness and contentment. Is there a difference? What about settling?

29. Literary Devices in F° 451
Simile - a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like", "as".
Metaphor - a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea
Irony - a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions.
Imagery - occurs when an author uses an object that is not really there, in order to create a comparison between one that is, usually evoking a more meaningful visual experience for the reader.
Media Res -  when a story begins either at the mid-point or at the conclusion, rather than at the beginning  
Paradox - a statement that is apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really contains a possible truth. Sometimes the term is applied to a self-contradictory false proposition. It is also used to describe an opinion or statement which is contrary to generally accepted ideas. Often, a paradox is used to make a reader consider the point in a new way.
We’ll revisit literary devices on Friday. Make sure to bring your book!

30. Archetypes in F° 451 Situational Archetypes: Symbolic Archetypes:
The Quest
Light vs. Darkness
The Fall
Wise Old Man
Death and Rebirth
Devil Figure
Nature vs. the Mechanistic World
Female Muse
Innate Wisdom vs. Educated Stupidity