1. English 9, Week 3
Fahrenheit 451 excerpts

2. Impact of technology
Monday

3. my friend alex plays tennis
Identify parts of speech:
adjective,
preposition,
noun,
conjunction (type),
pronoun (type and case),
gerund,
verb (type and tense),
participle,
adverb,
infinitive,
article
Complete this exercise in the DGP section of your notebook.

4. 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 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.

5. Warm Up Is technology making us dumb?
Watch the video and answer the question in the warm up section of your notebook.
Complete this exercise in warm-up section of your notebook.
Watch at or

6. Finish Excerpt #1
Read pages 3-13 (or download Excerpt #1)

7. Read Excerpt #2
Read the excerpt and complete the close reading questions
Handout: Excerpt #2 and questions

8. 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.

9. What is normal?
Tuesday

10. my friend alex plays tennis
Identify sentence parts
Prepositional phrase (adjective or adverb)
Gerund phrase
Subject
Infinitive phrase
Verb (transitive or intransitive)
Participial phrase
Direct object
Object of preposition
Indirect object
Object of infinitive
Predicate nominative
Object of gerund
Predicate adjective
Object of participle
Appositive/phrase
Complete this exercise in the DGP section of your notebook.

11. 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 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.

12. Warm Up What defines normal?
Complete this exercise in warm-up section of your notebook.
Watch at Or
What defines normal?
How is this commercial a parallel to Bradbury’s story so far?

13. Finish Excerpt #2
Read the excerpt and complete the close reading questions
Handout: Excerpt #2 and questions

14. Read Excerpt #3
Read the excerpt and complete the close reading questions
Handout: Excerpt #3 and questions

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

16. Grammar and Defining Utopias
Wednesday/Thursday

17. my friend alex plays tennis
Identify clauses and sentence type
Independent
Simple
Adverb dependent
Compound
Adjective dependent
Complex
Noun dependent
Compound-complex
Complete this exercise in the DGP section of your notebook.

18. 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 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.

19. Grammar Exercises Independent and dependent clauses
Simple, compound, complex, and compound/complex sentences.
Handouts: Independent and Dependent Clauses; Sentence Types

20. my friend alex plays tennis
Add punctuation and capitalization
Commas
End marks
Semicolons
Apostrophes
Underlining
Quotation marks
Complete this exercise in the DGP section of your notebook.

21. Catch Up
What do we need to complete from Monday and Tuesday?

22. 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?

23. Exit Slip Don’t forget homework is due tomorrow.
“Harrison Bergeron” and questions.
Exit: Show completed work. Ask questions.

24. Defining Utopias
Friday

25. my friend alex plays tennis
Diagram the sentence
Complete this exercise in the DGP section of your notebook.

26. 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.
Handout: Homework for Week 4

27. 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 Analyze 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).

28. 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?
Watch at or
Handout: Touchscreen

29. Amusing Ourselves to Death
Read the excerpts from this book and complete the close reading questions.
Handout: Postman Excerpts for Close Reading

30. Exit Slip
Show completed work.
Ask a good question.