The illustrated man by ray bradbury
Tuesday, January 6th
1. vocab: a. veldt b. disgruntled c. sensitize
2. journal: pros/cons of technology
3. Read: “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
4. Analysis of Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt"
- Essential Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with Ray
Bradbury's ideas presented in "The Veldt" about the effect of technology on
humans?
Homework: Complete outline for the essay (follow format below)
A. Thesis: In the story, "The Veldt," Ray Bradbury....
B. Body paragraph 1: THEME 1
- TS: Ray Bradbury argues.....
- 3 CDs: examples from the story that prove TS
C. Body paragraph 2: THEME 2
- TS: Ray Bradbury argues.....
- 3 CDs: examples from the story that prove TS
D. B. Body paragraph 3: THEME 3
- TS: Ray Bradbury argues.....
- 3 CDs: examples from the story that prove TS
E. Conclusion:
- Restate thesis with added information
Essay examples
1. vocab: a. veldt b. disgruntled c. sensitize
2. journal: pros/cons of technology
3. Read: “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
4. Analysis of Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt"
- Essential Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with Ray
Bradbury's ideas presented in "The Veldt" about the effect of technology on
humans?
Homework: Complete outline for the essay (follow format below)
A. Thesis: In the story, "The Veldt," Ray Bradbury....
B. Body paragraph 1: THEME 1
- TS: Ray Bradbury argues.....
- 3 CDs: examples from the story that prove TS
C. Body paragraph 2: THEME 2
- TS: Ray Bradbury argues.....
- 3 CDs: examples from the story that prove TS
D. B. Body paragraph 3: THEME 3
- TS: Ray Bradbury argues.....
- 3 CDs: examples from the story that prove TS
E. Conclusion:
- Restate thesis with added information
Essay examples
FINAL ESSAY OUTLINE:
- Introduction:
A)introduce story (title and author)
B) summarize background and main idea of story
C) State Thesis (answer essential question)
- Body Paragraph 1: THEME 1
A) Topic sentence (Bradbury argues that ........ about technology), while I believe....
B) CDs (quotes or paraphrasing examples from story), CMs (explain how it relates to
your thesis)
C) Examples from modern day/Facts found from online sources
D) CS - Conclude by tying your ideas to Bradbury's in a final analysis of the theme
-Body Paragraph 2: THEME 2
A) Topic sentence (Bradbury claims that ........ about technology), although....
B) CDs (quotes or paraphrasing examples from story), CMs (explain how it relates to
your thesis)
C) Examples from modern day/Facts found from online sources
D) CS
-Body Paragraph 3: THEME 3
A) Topic sentence (Bradbury contends that ........ about technology), while....
B) CDs (quotes or paraphrasing examples from story), CMs (explain how it relates to
your thesis)
C) Examples from modern day/Facts found from online sources
D) CS
-Conclusion:
A) Restate thesis in new words, with added information
B) Summarize all arguments
C) Leave the reader with something to think about
Works Cited:
List of websites/links to sources where facts were found
Thursday, January 8th
1. vocab: assert, contend, citation, cite, paraphrase, integrate
2. Journal: Juxtapose: Technology in 1951 & technology today
3. Research Lesson: Finding Facts/Logos to justify your thesis
4. Easy Bib/Works Cited/Tracking Sources
5. Worktime:
1. Research: Find facts to support each of your points
2. Add 2-3 facts to each of the 3 body paragraphs (minimum 6 facts)
3. Create Works Cited List for the end of your Essay
4. Write draft of your essay, with minimum 2 CDs from the story/2 facts from the
real word for each paragraph
Homework: Work on Essay with all facts added, all parts of essay complete by end of class Friday
Friday, Jan 9th
1. vocab: congruent, conjunction, coincide
2. Conclusion:
4. Worktime:
1. Peer Edit Essay
2. Revise, Edit, Final Draft
Homework: Final Draft of Essay
Tuesday, Jan 13th
1. Vocab: obsolete, disembodied, impassioned, irrevocable, repent, prevalent, proliferate, pivotal
2. Journal: Value of Life: If this were my last hour alive,
what would my life have been worth? How do you determine the
value of one's life? How do you spend the last hour of your life?
What do you think about?
3. Read: "Kaleidescope"
Homework: Chart Ray Bradbury's Life (RECORD YOUR SOURCES!!)
Thursday, Jan 15th
1. Vocab: ethical, bigotry, caste, irony, idiom
2. Journal: Morality: What would you do? (Scenarios)
3. Watch: Michael Sandel Harvard Lecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY
4. Read: "The Other Foot"
Homework: 1. Finish Reading "The Other Foot" and
2. Write a one page response/analysis OR write a creative story that illustrates the theme: "When the Shoe is on the Other Foot"
Tuesday, January 20th
1. vocab: euphemism, agnostic, novelty, fruition
2. journal: A. Mass Mob Mentality: Why do people want to be part of the
group/majority?
B. The Simple Life: How would your life be different if you lived off the grid - no idea
what was going on outside your plot of land & farm?
3. Read: "The Highway"
Homework: Read "The Long Rain" and write a one-page response:
How does faith create security? (respond with a thesis and use CDs from the story and your life and analyze with CMs.)
Thursday, January 22nd
1. vocab: tenacious, lugubrious, malaise, acrimonious
2. Journal: A. Rapid fire - Alliteration
B. How does society influence individual personalities/actions? Use examples from "The Highway" as well as your own life/experience
3. Meditation
4. Read: "The Man" & "The Rocket Man"
5. Write: A. Faith vs. Logic
B. How does faith create security?
C. Why do we always long for what we don't have? Is dissatisfaction a human
quality?
Homework: Complete Reading & Writing Tasks (write a minimum of one page on 1 topic)
(respond with a thesis and use CDs from the story and your life and analyze with CMs)
Tuesday, January 27th
1. vocab: transcendence, transgression, transpire, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify
2. Student examples of Essential Question Responses
3. Journal: Physical Body vs. Soul/Mind: which aspects of our lives are each responsible for?
4. Go over "The Man" & "The Rocket Man"
4. Read: "The Fire Balloons"
5. Write: Can the mind be separated from the soul? Is one better than the other?
More sinful? More important?
Homework: Complete Reading "The Fire Balloons" & "The Last Night of the World" & Write a minimum of one page on one of the following topics, using CDs from the story and also your own life & modern day
A. Can the mind be separated from the soul? Is one better than the other?
More sinful? More important?
B. Faith Vs. Logic
C. Value of Life: What makes value in life?
(1 page: respond to the question with a thesis, CDs and CMs from the stories as well as your own life)
Thursday, January 29th
1. vocab: repertoire, reticent, conundrum, imperturbable, impudent, indignant, blasphemy, dogma
2. Go over Homework: "The Fire Balloons" & "The Last Night of the World"
3. Article: Energy is Everything
4. Meditation
5. Journal: A. Censorship: Why are things censored? Is this good or bad?
B. Logic vs. Imagination
5. Article: Plants have a Powerful Internet Connection
Homework: Find a current event article/short video & write a one-page analysis & discussion questions. Be prepared to present in class FRIDAY
Friday, January 30th
1. Vocab: panacea, predilection, preponderance, plethora, pedantic
2. Current Event Presentations
Homework: Read: "The Exiles"
Write: A. What would happen to humanity if books were banned?
B. What does Bradbury consider to be the dangers of the imagination?
(1-page: respond to the question with a thesis, CDs and CMs from the stories as well as your own life)
Tuesday, February 3rd
1. vocab: omnipresent, ubiquitous, omnipotent, fascism, toil, guise
2. Journal: Is Bradbury Religious? Explain & Give Examples
3. Introducing Quotes
4. Commas & Semi-Colons
Homework:
1. Read: "No Particular Night or Morning" and "The Fox and the Forest"
2. Write: How do these stories illustrate the governments of the times during which Bradbury
lived? (1 page: respond to the question with a thesis, CDs and CMs from the stories as well as your own life)
Thursday, February 5th
1. vocab: deprivation, solace, bereft, imperialism
2. Journal: Isolation: How does isolation affect the individual?
3. Read: "The Visitor" & "The Concrete Mixer"
4. Write: How does imperialism obliterate culture?
Homework: Read "The City" & write an analysis OR a creative version of your own story where the city is is the main character.
Tuesday, February 10th
1. vocab: consternated, resonate, reverberate, reiterate, discern, ambuguity
2. Journal: Critical Review of The Illustrated Man
3. EAP - Early Assessment Program
**explanation/Rubric
** write: 45 minute-In-class-Essay - Bradbury Quote
Homework: Find an article that relates to Censorship of Social Media/Internet & write a reponse that explains how it relates to censorship - does it support censoring the internet or freedom of speech?
Then, Write 3 discussion questions for the class to think about
Thursday, February 12th
1. vocab: imminent, intrinsic, insipid, insidious, intrepid, scruples
2. journal: Should the internet/social media be be censored? What problems/benefits does social media cause?
3. Censorship of the internet/social media -
A> Read Articles
B> Policy Ideas - how can we regulate the internet/social media? Where is the line between freedom of speech and regulating media?
Homework: Brainstorm ideas for a policy to regulate social media
Friday, February 13th
1. vocab: auspicious, prerogative, pejorative, pervasive, eviscerate
2. Finish sharing articles
3. Policy Creation - how can we regulate the internet/social media? Where is the line between freedom of speech and regulating media?
Homework: Create policy to regulate social media OR the internet overall
- Introduction:
A)introduce story (title and author)
B) summarize background and main idea of story
C) State Thesis (answer essential question)
- Body Paragraph 1: THEME 1
A) Topic sentence (Bradbury argues that ........ about technology), while I believe....
B) CDs (quotes or paraphrasing examples from story), CMs (explain how it relates to
your thesis)
C) Examples from modern day/Facts found from online sources
D) CS - Conclude by tying your ideas to Bradbury's in a final analysis of the theme
-Body Paragraph 2: THEME 2
A) Topic sentence (Bradbury claims that ........ about technology), although....
B) CDs (quotes or paraphrasing examples from story), CMs (explain how it relates to
your thesis)
C) Examples from modern day/Facts found from online sources
D) CS
-Body Paragraph 3: THEME 3
A) Topic sentence (Bradbury contends that ........ about technology), while....
B) CDs (quotes or paraphrasing examples from story), CMs (explain how it relates to
your thesis)
C) Examples from modern day/Facts found from online sources
D) CS
-Conclusion:
A) Restate thesis in new words, with added information
B) Summarize all arguments
C) Leave the reader with something to think about
Works Cited:
List of websites/links to sources where facts were found
Thursday, January 8th
1. vocab: assert, contend, citation, cite, paraphrase, integrate
2. Journal: Juxtapose: Technology in 1951 & technology today
3. Research Lesson: Finding Facts/Logos to justify your thesis
4. Easy Bib/Works Cited/Tracking Sources
5. Worktime:
1. Research: Find facts to support each of your points
2. Add 2-3 facts to each of the 3 body paragraphs (minimum 6 facts)
3. Create Works Cited List for the end of your Essay
4. Write draft of your essay, with minimum 2 CDs from the story/2 facts from the
real word for each paragraph
Homework: Work on Essay with all facts added, all parts of essay complete by end of class Friday
Friday, Jan 9th
1. vocab: congruent, conjunction, coincide
2. Conclusion:
- Evaluate the impact of technology over time
- Add an analysis in your conclusion about why Ray Bradbury had the fears he did
- Leave Audience with a BANG
4. Worktime:
1. Peer Edit Essay
2. Revise, Edit, Final Draft
Homework: Final Draft of Essay
Tuesday, Jan 13th
1. Vocab: obsolete, disembodied, impassioned, irrevocable, repent, prevalent, proliferate, pivotal
2. Journal: Value of Life: If this were my last hour alive,
what would my life have been worth? How do you determine the
value of one's life? How do you spend the last hour of your life?
What do you think about?
3. Read: "Kaleidescope"
Homework: Chart Ray Bradbury's Life (RECORD YOUR SOURCES!!)
Thursday, Jan 15th
1. Vocab: ethical, bigotry, caste, irony, idiom
2. Journal: Morality: What would you do? (Scenarios)
3. Watch: Michael Sandel Harvard Lecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY
4. Read: "The Other Foot"
Homework: 1. Finish Reading "The Other Foot" and
2. Write a one page response/analysis OR write a creative story that illustrates the theme: "When the Shoe is on the Other Foot"
Tuesday, January 20th
1. vocab: euphemism, agnostic, novelty, fruition
2. journal: A. Mass Mob Mentality: Why do people want to be part of the
group/majority?
B. The Simple Life: How would your life be different if you lived off the grid - no idea
what was going on outside your plot of land & farm?
3. Read: "The Highway"
Homework: Read "The Long Rain" and write a one-page response:
How does faith create security? (respond with a thesis and use CDs from the story and your life and analyze with CMs.)
Thursday, January 22nd
1. vocab: tenacious, lugubrious, malaise, acrimonious
2. Journal: A. Rapid fire - Alliteration
B. How does society influence individual personalities/actions? Use examples from "The Highway" as well as your own life/experience
3. Meditation
4. Read: "The Man" & "The Rocket Man"
5. Write: A. Faith vs. Logic
B. How does faith create security?
C. Why do we always long for what we don't have? Is dissatisfaction a human
quality?
Homework: Complete Reading & Writing Tasks (write a minimum of one page on 1 topic)
(respond with a thesis and use CDs from the story and your life and analyze with CMs)
Tuesday, January 27th
1. vocab: transcendence, transgression, transpire, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify
2. Student examples of Essential Question Responses
3. Journal: Physical Body vs. Soul/Mind: which aspects of our lives are each responsible for?
4. Go over "The Man" & "The Rocket Man"
4. Read: "The Fire Balloons"
5. Write: Can the mind be separated from the soul? Is one better than the other?
More sinful? More important?
Homework: Complete Reading "The Fire Balloons" & "The Last Night of the World" & Write a minimum of one page on one of the following topics, using CDs from the story and also your own life & modern day
A. Can the mind be separated from the soul? Is one better than the other?
More sinful? More important?
B. Faith Vs. Logic
C. Value of Life: What makes value in life?
(1 page: respond to the question with a thesis, CDs and CMs from the stories as well as your own life)
Thursday, January 29th
1. vocab: repertoire, reticent, conundrum, imperturbable, impudent, indignant, blasphemy, dogma
2. Go over Homework: "The Fire Balloons" & "The Last Night of the World"
3. Article: Energy is Everything
4. Meditation
5. Journal: A. Censorship: Why are things censored? Is this good or bad?
B. Logic vs. Imagination
5. Article: Plants have a Powerful Internet Connection
Homework: Find a current event article/short video & write a one-page analysis & discussion questions. Be prepared to present in class FRIDAY
Friday, January 30th
1. Vocab: panacea, predilection, preponderance, plethora, pedantic
2. Current Event Presentations
Homework: Read: "The Exiles"
Write: A. What would happen to humanity if books were banned?
B. What does Bradbury consider to be the dangers of the imagination?
(1-page: respond to the question with a thesis, CDs and CMs from the stories as well as your own life)
Tuesday, February 3rd
1. vocab: omnipresent, ubiquitous, omnipotent, fascism, toil, guise
2. Journal: Is Bradbury Religious? Explain & Give Examples
3. Introducing Quotes
4. Commas & Semi-Colons
Homework:
1. Read: "No Particular Night or Morning" and "The Fox and the Forest"
2. Write: How do these stories illustrate the governments of the times during which Bradbury
lived? (1 page: respond to the question with a thesis, CDs and CMs from the stories as well as your own life)
Thursday, February 5th
1. vocab: deprivation, solace, bereft, imperialism
2. Journal: Isolation: How does isolation affect the individual?
3. Read: "The Visitor" & "The Concrete Mixer"
4. Write: How does imperialism obliterate culture?
Homework: Read "The City" & write an analysis OR a creative version of your own story where the city is is the main character.
Tuesday, February 10th
1. vocab: consternated, resonate, reverberate, reiterate, discern, ambuguity
2. Journal: Critical Review of The Illustrated Man
3. EAP - Early Assessment Program
**explanation/Rubric
** write: 45 minute-In-class-Essay - Bradbury Quote
Homework: Find an article that relates to Censorship of Social Media/Internet & write a reponse that explains how it relates to censorship - does it support censoring the internet or freedom of speech?
Then, Write 3 discussion questions for the class to think about
Thursday, February 12th
1. vocab: imminent, intrinsic, insipid, insidious, intrepid, scruples
2. journal: Should the internet/social media be be censored? What problems/benefits does social media cause?
3. Censorship of the internet/social media -
A> Read Articles
B> Policy Ideas - how can we regulate the internet/social media? Where is the line between freedom of speech and regulating media?
Homework: Brainstorm ideas for a policy to regulate social media
Friday, February 13th
1. vocab: auspicious, prerogative, pejorative, pervasive, eviscerate
2. Finish sharing articles
3. Policy Creation - how can we regulate the internet/social media? Where is the line between freedom of speech and regulating media?
Homework: Create policy to regulate social media OR the internet overall
- Establish Regulations/Rules
- Who will enforce these/punishments?
- Justify why this policy is needed (CDs & Statistics to back up your ideas)
- Justify why your policy will be effective (Discuss what will change and result due to these regulations - use CDs to prove)
Tuesday, February 17th
1. vocab:
2. Present Social Media Policies & Socratic Seminar Debate on regulating internet as media
3. Vocab Charades
Homework: 1. Study for Vocab Quiz on Thursday
2. Read Life of Pi by Yann Martel p.
1. vocab:
2. Present Social Media Policies & Socratic Seminar Debate on regulating internet as media
3. Vocab Charades
Homework: 1. Study for Vocab Quiz on Thursday
2. Read Life of Pi by Yann Martel p.