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1 Agenda 5-4-2015 Juniors - American Short Stories Freshmen - Fahrenheit 451

2 ● What is truth? How do our truths compare to society’s? ● What rules must people follow? How our perceptions of ourselves differ from others’? ● What is an individual’s relationship to society? ● How does our environment (people and places) affect us? ● How are observations of our surroundings an important way to understand our place in the world? ● How does experience affect one’s observations? Catcher in the Rye Essential Questions

3 Step 1: Please grab your notebook, & Grab the story Step 2: Start a fresh page, date it and title it Vocab Define the following words that are also found in the story. Felicity Congenial Flamboyant Atrocious Good Morning/Afternoon 5-5 -2015

4  How would you describe the story's setting?  How and why is the setting significant?  What does Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wall- paper" suggest about a middle-class woman's place and role(s) in society in the mid- to late-nineteenth century?  How would you describe the narrator's husband?  What is the narrator's style of writing? What is her tone?  What does the narrator believe would be the best cure for her? “The Yellow Wallpaper” comprehensive questions

5  Define the literary term SYMBOL.  Clarify this symbol at its most concrete level. What is wallpaper? What purpose does wallpaper serve? How does it serve that purpose?  Define the yellow wallpaper in the story on its most concrete level. What is it? What does it look like?  Describe the narrator’s view of the wallpaper. How does her description of the wallpaper change? Who are the women in the wallpaper?  Based on these concrete details about the wallpaper, what do you think it symbolizes? How do the details of the concrete object fit the abstract idea it represents?  What does this symbol and the narrator’s interaction with the symbol show about her conflict? “The Yellow Wallpaper” symbolism questions

6 Recall a person you saw today on your way to school. Describe this person and invent a story about them: Who is he/she? Where is that person going? Invent a distinct characteristic or hobby you think this person would have based on what you observed about him/her this morning. Relay Writing

7 Step 1: Please grab your notebook, and Fahrenheit 451 book Step 2: Start a fresh page, date it and title it Journal Montag tells his wife Mildred, “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in awhile. How long has it been since you’ve been really bothered by something important, about something real?” Now you get to answer Montag’s question…how long has it been for you? What was the last really important thing that bothered you? Good Morning/Afternoon 5-5-2015

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9 1.What is the purpose of an advertisement? 1.What do advertisers need to consider when creating an ad? Things to Consider in your notebook

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11 Part 2: The Sieve and the Sand 1. What is the meaning of the title of Part 2? 2. What is the importance of the dentrifice commercial? 3. Why does Montag go to see Faber? 4. What does Faber tell Montag about books? 5. What are the three things which Faber says are missing from society? 6. Describe the parlor women, their views, their conversational concerns. 7. Why does Montag read “Dover Beach” aloud to the ladies? 8. How do the women react? Fahrenheit 451 Possible Quiz Q’s


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