How can literature help us explore our hopes and fears?
Objective: Students will be able to monitor their own reading to identify points of confusion and ask clarifying questions.
1. Word of the Day #2: sundry
2. Video clip and Writer's Notebook #2: The Future
3. Overview of how people have written about the future throughout history (utopian literature, science fiction, the development of dystopian literature).
4. Video clip and class brainstorming of features of the dystopian genre.
5. Visit writing lab to check out Fahrenheit 451 and set up our student computer accounts.
6. Video clip and discussion of how asking questions helps us identify points of confusion and make progress in figuring out new worlds.
7. Read together the first page of Fahrenheit 451 and discuss how we are thrown into a confusing world that will prompt lots of questions.
8. Exit slip: a question you had while reading the first page of Fahrenheit 451.
For next time: Read through page 21 of Fahrenheit 451 and make a list of twenty questions you have as you read.
Objective: Students will be able to monitor their own reading to identify points of confusion and ask clarifying questions.
1. Word of the Day #2: sundry
2. Video clip and Writer's Notebook #2: The Future
3. Overview of how people have written about the future throughout history (utopian literature, science fiction, the development of dystopian literature).
4. Video clip and class brainstorming of features of the dystopian genre.
5. Visit writing lab to check out Fahrenheit 451 and set up our student computer accounts.
6. Video clip and discussion of how asking questions helps us identify points of confusion and make progress in figuring out new worlds.
7. Read together the first page of Fahrenheit 451 and discuss how we are thrown into a confusing world that will prompt lots of questions.
8. Exit slip: a question you had while reading the first page of Fahrenheit 451.
For next time: Read through page 21 of Fahrenheit 451 and make a list of twenty questions you have as you read.