1. WARM UP: POETRY BREAKDOWN THURSDAY: LOCATE ANY AND ALL FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR ARTICLE AND PUT IT ON YOUR DESK.

2. LET’S SALSA S how actions that facilitate learning for the self and others. A ctively participate and be cognitively present L earn to be open to new learning S et cell phone to OFF and S end it to your backpack/purse A ct with a positive attitude and A ccept that failure is not an option!

3. IN YOUR GROUPS—GET OUT ALL HW FROM THIS UNIT 1.Discuss the figurative language from your notes. 2.Discuss your three articles 3.Discuss your titles hw---choose the best one to share or a combo of all 4.Discuss your letters to Captain Beatty or the start of the story from Clarisse’s perspective-- choose the best one to share 5.On your computer paper: Map out the events of the story. AKA: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution. 6.Begin going over the study guide questions

4. TITLES In your groups, each person needs to share their title analysis. Choose THE BEST representation to share out You will turn these in at the end with your group work

5. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT NOTES The protagonist gradually undergoes a change of heart. The protagonist’s shortcomings fundamentally affect the manner in which he or she is able to respond to the challenge brought by outside forces. While some changes begin from outside forces, changes also brew within thoughts and emotions as our hero searches to overcome fears, realize dreams, or discover identity. Montag questions whether his profession is justified and whether the values he has held so dear—burning books and all it implies—are wrong. He then repudiates his profession. He does so partly through the intercession of Clarisse and Faber, messengers from a world he barely understands. By the end of the novel, as you will continue to see, Montag has been profoundly changed. As a three-dimensional character, Montag has an inner and an outer life unlike the two- dimensional portraits of other characters.

6. GROUP WORK: ONE PAPER: DISCUSSION Begin to discuss how Bradbury has constructed the plot to reach this dramatic conclusion. What do you think are the two most important turning points in the novel? Write them down on a piece of computer paper to share out.

7. THE PLOT UNFOLDS NOTES A novel’s plot unfolds a series of events leading to a dramatic climax. The timing of such events can make a novel either predictable or riveting. As the author, Bradbury has made choices about how to structure and pace events to explore how book-burning can erode the human imagination.. Some of the turning points in the novel include the woman’s willingness to die for books; Montag’s confrontation with his wife’s friends; Montag’s murder of Captain Beatty; and Montag’s creative escape from the Mechanical Hound.

8. DISCUSSION ACTIVITIES-PLOT STRUCTURE You will map the events of the story to assess the artistry of story-telling In groups, map a time line that depicts the development of the story and the building of drama. This map should include the most significant turning points, but also examines the lesser events that build tension. AKA: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution. Put this next on your computer paper.

9. HW: FINAL READING OPTIONAL Read the “Afterword” and the “Coda” (pp. 167-179).