Explain if you have or use or have read and watched the following. Also how often you use them. Also, rank in order the social media you use the most:

Explain if you have or use or have read and watched the following. Also how often you use them. Also, rank in order the social media you use the most: * I-pod or MP3 player * Cell phone * Reality TV (which shows) * Any sports packages like NFL Sunday Ticket * Wide screen HD TV's * Laptop computer or I-Pad * Read the Twilight series, Hunger games Series, or any other novel series

Ray Bradbury's Writing Style * You learn to write by writing * "Feed yourself" the METAPHORS * Write everyday and write with LOVE * All the METAPHORS of a lifetime - you are looking for the METAPHOR that represents YOU * Read a short story, poem, and essay every night - this builds your perceptions of life and personal experiences * The more METAPHORS you cram yourself with will lead to NEW METAPHORS * Get the characters to come to you and SPEAK: "They LOVE life and they TELL me about it"

Part I: The Hearth and the Salamander 1. How does Montag feel burning books? 2. As the books are torched, to what are they compared? 3. What is Montag s perfume? 4. Describe Clarisse McClellan. PP. 1 8 5. What question does Clarisse ask Montag about his profession? 6. What other things from the past does Clarisse remember her uncle telling her? 7. Before Clarisse goes into her house, what question does she ask Montag? 8. What does Montag do when he enters his house still thinking about Clarisse s question?

9. When is the last time Montag talked? 10. To what is Montag s bedroom compared? What has happened to Montag s wife? 11. What else is going on in the world? 12. What bothers Montag most about Mildred s operation? 13. In the morning, what does Mildred think happened to her? 14. What is Mildred excited about? 15. On their second encounter, what does Clarisse make Montag realize? 16. Why does Clarisse think it strange that Montag is a fireman? 17. At this point on page 21, how does the reader know that Clarisse is starting to have an effect on Montag? 18. How does the Mechanical Hound kill? 19. According to Beatty on page 24 25 how is the Hound similar to people? 20. Why hasn t Montag had children? 21. On page 26 28 summarize Clarisse s comments on society. PP. 8 31

Read pages 26-28 and identify and explain either through personal examples or examples from the news how this passage relates to today's society. Write a Constructed Response paragraph "I'm anti-social, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking about things like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. "Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball. Or go out in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lamp-posts, playing `chicken' and 'knock hub-caps.' I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?" "Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always used to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid. My uncle says his grandfather remembered when children didn't kill each other. But that was a long time ago when they had things different. They believed in responsibility, my uncle says. Do you know, I'm responsible. I was spanked when I needed it, years ago.

Book Excerpt "But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you?" "But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another" They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball. My Example In my science class, we're not allowed to talk at all. We only take notes and we have to be quiet. News stories of kids playing the "knockout game" where they go up to people not paying attention and punch them to knock them out, or kids filming fights and putting them on Youtube Parents have their children involved in so many extra curricular activities (sports, music lessons, dance lessons, computer clubs, Girl/Boy Scouts, etc.) that children can only release this stress by playing video games or going to Frankie's Fun Park or Velocity Sports.

PP. 29 65 22. What sort of change is Montag going through on page 29? 23. What does Beatty say concerning the man and the library they burned the previous week? 24. What might Montag be giving away on page 31? 25. What does Beatty tell the woman concerning books? 26. What does Montag do on page 35? 27. Who sets the fire? Why is the fire department only called at night? 28. Coming home from the fire, what does Montag ask Mildred? 29. According to Montag, what one reason has driven him and Mildred apart? 30. What has Mildred forgotten to tell Montag? 31. Why is Montag sick? What does he consider doing? 32. On page 49, what does Montag realize about books? 33. Summarize Beatty s interpretation on the history of the fire department. Why are sports important? 34. How did censorship come about? 35. How is the Constitution being interpreted now? 36. What happens to firemen who keep books? 37. What does Montag get from inside the ventilator grille? 38. What does Montag think should happen to firemen?

Part II: The Sieve and the Sand 1. On page 68, what is it about Clarisse that appealed to Montag? What is at the door? 2. What is Mildred afraid will happen if Beatty finds out Montag has books? 3. From whom does Montag want to get help? 4. What book does Montag have that may be the last in the world? 5. What physical characteristic present in the beginning of the novel is now lost? 6. What is the significance of the sieve and the sand story? 7. According to Faber, what are three things necessary for happiness? 8. What joke does Montag say to Faber concerning firemen? 9. Why does Montag give the book to Faber? PP. 68 85

Part II: The Sieve and the Sand PP. 90 106 10. What does Montag want to do with his wife and her guests? 11. Why did the women vote for President Winton Noble? 12. What happens to Mrs. Phelps after Montag reads Dover Beach? 13. What is Beatty trying to do to Montag from 103 105? 14. Where is the fire department going at the end of this section?

Part III: Burning Bright PP. 107 158 1. Who put in the alarm? 2. Who torches the house? What does he use? 3. What does Beatty discover when he starts beating Montag? 4. What does Montag do in retaliation? 5. What does Montag realize as he is gathering the remaining books from his bushes? 6. Who does Montag frame by calling in an alarm? 7. How does Montag expect to throw his scent? 8. On page 139, what does Montag realize about fire? 9. What kind of men does Montag meet at the river? 10. How do the police convince the public that they have captured Montag? 11. Where do the men keep their books? 12. How does Montag feel about his wife? 13. What happens to the city? 14. Why does Granger mention the Phoenix? 15. What does Montag remember at the end of the story?

During an interview with Ray Bradbury, conducted by a Del Rey publisher, Bradbury is asked to expound on the character of Captain Beatty. Bradbury states, You have to understand how Beatty became a burner of books. He has a history. He was a book reader, but after various crises in his life his mother died of cancer, his father committed suicide, his love affair fell apart when he opened the books, they were empty. They couldn t help him. So he turned on the books and burned them.

A nonprofit public interest law firm is demanding that the White House withdraw a citizen snitch program that seeks to collect information on those who make fishy statements about President Obama s health care reform. As WND reported, the White House announced the program Aug. 4, pleading with people around the nation to forward to a White House e mail address anything they see about health insurance reform that seems fishy. In his post on the White House blog, Macon Phillips, White House director of new media, wrote: Scary chain e mails and videos are starting to percolate on the Internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to uncover the truth about the president s health insurance reform positions.

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e mails or through casual conversation. Since we can t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we re asking for your help. If you get an e mail or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov. The American Center for Law and Justice, or ACLJ, sent a letter to President Obama today, warning, This citizen reporting program raises significant First Amendment concerns. For what purpose is this information being gathered? the ACLJ letter asked. To whom will the information be disseminated? Is the intent of the program to stifle free and open debate on the serious policy issues raised by health care reform? Will you flag media outlets that publish articles critical of your health care plan? However, the ACLJ attorneys warned the president, Creating a program that requests individuals to report on their neighbors, co workers, family members and friends who express personal opinions in opposition to your policy choices is not the way to encourage openness and transparency. It is tantamount to policing ideas. Such a program will only stifle free and open debate among the citizens of this great country.

Part III: Burning Bright 10. How do the police convince the public that they have captured Montag? 11. Where do the men keep their books? 12. How does Montag feel about his wife? 13. What happens to the city? 14. Why does Granger mention the Phoenix? 15. What does Montag remember at the end of the story? PP. 107 158

Clarisse A FOIL CHARACTER is a minor character which has traits that are in contrast with another character. It is used to make the traits of the other character emphasized. Discuss Mildred and Clarisse as foils. Explain how each character is a force of change for Montag. Mildred Physical Description Behaviors Interests Associated Images/Symbols

Discuss three technological tools from the novel. What are their functions (what do they do) and what is their greater purpose in society (what do they help to achieve)?