English 9, Week 3

Fahrenheit 451 excerpts

MONDAYImpact of technology

my friend alex plays tennis

Identify parts of speech:

• noun, • pronoun (type and

case), • verb (type and tense), • adverb,

• adjective, • preposition, • conjunction (type), • gerund, • participle, • infinitive, • article

Target for Monday• Target: I will analyze the development of the

story of Fahrenheit 451 and identify how details impact this development– Conditions: I will finish Excerpt #1 and begin

reading Excerpt #2 of F451.– Criteria: I will complete the reading questions on

the Excerpt #2 sheet.Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

Warm Up

• Is technology making us dumb? • Watch the video and answer the question in

the warm up section of your notebook.

Finish Excerpt #1

Read Excerpt #2

• Read the excerpt and complete the close reading questions

Exit Slip

• Identify the main characters in F451 and be able to give an example of at least one detail and its impact on the message of the story.

TUESDAYWhat is normal?

my friend alex plays tennis

• Identify sentence parts– Subject– Verb (transitive or

intransitive)– Direct object– Indirect object– Predicate nominative– Predicate adjective

– Appositive/phrase– Prepositional phrase

(adjective or adverb)– Gerund phrase– Infinitive phrase– Participial phrase– Object of preposition– Object of infinitive– Object of gerund– Object of participle

Target for Monday• Target: I will analyze the development of the

story of Fahrenheit 451 and identify how details impact this development– Conditions: I will finish Excerpt #2 and begin

reading Excerpt #3 of F451.– Criteria: I will complete the reading questions on

the Excerpt #3 sheet.Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

Warm Up

• What defines normal?• How is this commercial a parallel to Bradbury’s story so far?

Finish Excerpt #2

• Read the excerpt and complete the close reading questions

Read Excerpt #3

• Read the excerpt and complete the close reading questions

Exit Slip

• Be able to give an example of at least one detail from Fahrenheit 451 that demonstrates what it means to be normal.

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAYGrammar and Defining Utopias

my friend alex plays tennis

• Identify clauses and sentence type– Independent– Adverb dependent– Adjective dependent– Noun dependent

– Simple– Compound– Complex– Compound-complex

Target for Wednesday/Thursday• Target: I will learn how to identify the different

types of sentences and what independent/dependent clauses are.

• If time, target #2: I will consider what makes a utopia.– Conditions: I will complete grammar worksheets to

help my understanding of sentence types and clauses.

– Criteria: correct completion of the grammar worksheets.

Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

Grammar Exercises

• Independent and dependent clauses

• Simple, compound, complex, and compound/complex sentences.

my friend alex plays tennis

• Add punctuation and capitalization– Commas– Semicolons– Apostrophes– Underlining– Quotation marks

– End marks

Catch Up

• What do we need to complete from Monday and Tuesday?

Utopias

• If time, create a utopia. Draw a picture of what it looks like.

• What are the rules of your society?• What makes it perfect?• What are the potential problems of your

utopia?

Exit Slip

• Don’t forget homework is due tomorrow. – “Harrison Bergeron” and questions.

• Exit: Show completed work. Ask questions.

FRIDAYDefining Utopias

my friend alex plays tennis

• Diagram the sentence

Homework Turn In/Homework Assigned

• Turn in the “Harrison Bergeron” Questions.• Quiz over this short story and over our reading

of Fahrenheit 451 on Monday.• Homework: Finish the creation of your Utopia.

Target for Friday• Target: I will learn to annotate a poem and

nonfiction text.– Conditions: I will read/watch a poem and show its

connections to our reading. I will read a nonfiction text and make connections.

– Criteria: successfully complete the close reading activity

Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

Warm Up

•Watch the presentation.•Annotate the poem.•What is the message of this poem?•How is it related to the reading we’ve been doing this week?

Amusing Ourselves to Death

• Read the excerpts from this book and complete the close reading questions.

Exit Slip

• Show completed work.• Ask a good question.