Learning Target: Students will review their reading from the previous day. Students will characterize three characters from F451 and track their character development though the entire text.

Bell Work : Granger says, “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies -- a child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall.” What are your thoughts about that? Must everyone leave something? What does your life mean if you don’t? 

Assignment: Play the trailer for the 2018 HBO film version of the text.

• Is this how they imagined the world of the novel? Why or why not?

• How does an author develop character?

Students will complete the “Character Development” worksheet.

Students should be prepared to discuss their work the next day. 

Learning Target: Students will begin exploring how the dystopian society in F451 is similar to our own modern world. 

Bell Work : What are the major similarities and differences between our society and that in F451?

Assignment: Begin by discussing the last couple of questions on the Character Development worksheet.

• How does character development help construct deeper themes?

• What is a deeper theme of the text and how does character development help to construct it? 

Show the video Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”?

• How is society in the novel like or unlike our own society? 

Hand out the “Claim, Support, & Question” worksheet to students and instruct them to complete it individually. 

Study for the unit test. 

Learning Target: Students will evaluate their understanding of F451 by taking the unit test. 

Bell Work: Explain how humankind has something that the legendary, mythological phoenix bird doesn’t have.  

Assignment: F451 Test

Learning Target: Students will compose an essay that analyzes the social commentary Bradbury makes in F451. 

Bell Work: What does this novel mean? What is it saying to readers? What does the world of Guy Montag, Clarisse McClellan, and Captain Beatty have to say about our own world?

Assignment: Introduce F451 Essay Prompt/ Choose a prompt/ Begin paragraph planning

Learning Target: Students will compose an essay that analyzes the social commentary Bradbury makes in F451. 

Bell Work: Describe the progress you have made on your essay. 

Assignment: Finish up paragraph planning/ Conference with teacher/ Begin typing when ready draft is complete