10TH GRADE ENGLISH

AGENDA• Journal

• Vocabulary

• Work on project

Analyses Grading is as follows:

6 – lacks effort or following directions 7 – has some inferences and some effort

8 – good inferences, following directions, and pretty good effort 9 – Great effort and inferences/some analysis

10 – Great effort, strong analysis/close reading

If one or both are missing check with who emailed it to me to make sure your name was on it.

VOCABULARY

Emergency words:

• Juggernaut

• Diatribe a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.

• Skepticism a skeptical attitude ,doubt as the truth of something

• Proclivities the tendency to choose or do something regularly

• Fervor

• Proboscis

Look the word up, write a definition, put it in a sentence, and draw a picture

AGENDA

• Fahrenheit test

• Journal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1S3E7Q5u38

• F. 451 Youtube film and talk about clips from film

• Start watching film

ADAPTATIONS OF F. 451

• The feature length film was made in 1966 and directed by Francois Truffaut. The actors are often British and the main actor who plays Montag is German.

• Major changes: Mildred’s name is Linda, Clarisse doesn’t die and she’s actually a school teacher, there’s no Faber and Clarisse takes his place, no atomic bomb, and no mechanical hound.

• While we watch the film, take down details that you think are important in figuring out what makes the film good or bad. A detail would not be: the music was bad. A detail would be that the music is repetitive in such and such scene.

QUESTIONS ABOUT FILM

• How are small children portrayed in the film?

• What does using the same actress for Clarisse and Mildred/Linda do? Additional meaning?

• How is Clarisse shown to be more innocent/childlike and Linda/Mildred as more adultlike/womanlike?

• What does the fireman’s salute remind you of?

• How does the modern meet the 1960s here? What’s modern from even now?

• Where does the reference to meeting Faber come into the film?

• Does the film stay true to the book’s intentions and themes?

• Do Linda (Mildred)/Montag love each other at all as shown in the film?