WEEK 9: FAHRENHEIT 451
COURSE BASICS
Three Platforms
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Writing Center: Before School (A266) and During Lunch (A217)
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MONDAY
Discuss: Part One
Fahrenheit 451 (Part Two)
from “They read the long afternoon through” (pg 67)
to “… his lips moving just a trifle” (pg 89)
TUESDAY
Fahrenheit 451 (Part Two)
from “He was eating a light supper” (pg 89)
Finish Part Two
WEDNESDAY
Fahrenheit 451 (Part Three)
from “Lights flicked on and house doors opened…” (pg 107)
to “He ran very fast from the house, down toward the river” (pg 130)
THURSDAY
Fahrenheit 451 (Part Three)
from “Montag ran” (pg 130)
Finish Part Three
Read: Handout 3 (Ecclesiastes)
FRIDAY
Classwork: Decoder Ring
WEEKEND
Monday: Exam (Golden Age and 451)
COURSE OVERVIEW
Syllabus
Class Policies
Final Exam Study Guide
CLASSWORK MATERIALS
Prime Directive
Annotative Bookmark
Decoder Ring
Two Peas in a Pod
UNIT LECTURES
Introduction: What Is Sci-Fi?
Unit 1 Origins: Scientific Revolution
Unit 2 Foundations: Industrial Revolution
A Trip to the Moon: Film History #1
A Trip to the Moon (Full Length Film)
Smashing Pumpkins: “Tonight Tonight”
Metropolis: The Way We See the Future
American Experience: “War of the Worlds”
Unit 3 Golden Age: Technical Revolution
Unit 4 Contemporary: Genre Busting
Space Epic: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Space Western: Star Wars
Sci-Fi Noir: Blade Runner
Cyberpunk and Biopunk
Matrix and Gattaca
NOVELS
Frankenstein
Brave New World
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Lecture
Annotative Bookmark
Guided Reading
Synopsis and Orientation
Handout 1: The Fifties
Handout 2: Science Fiction
Handout 3: Ecclesiastes