JOURNAL TOPIC:
Describe a time you finished a book. How did the experience make you feel? Proud to have completed it? Sad to say goodbye to the characters? Surprised/irritated at the plot resolution? Please explain.
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Finishing F451
3. (depending on time) preparing for the essay
Monday, April 3, 2017
explain the ending of fahrenheit 451
In a thoughtful comment to this post, please explain the ending of the book. Mahalo.
april 3
JOURNAL TOPIC:
Why are you tested so much/often? What are adults trying to figure out? Why can't they do it another way?
AGENDA:
I have no idea who's going to be smarter, more balanced, or in class today as a result of testing, so we'll pick up where we need to when I see you. Those of us who are here will finish the novel and set the agenda for tomorrow.
Why are you tested so much/often? What are adults trying to figure out? Why can't they do it another way?
AGENDA:
I have no idea who's going to be smarter, more balanced, or in class today as a result of testing, so we'll pick up where we need to when I see you. Those of us who are here will finish the novel and set the agenda for tomorrow.
Sunday, April 2, 2017
fahrenheit 451 essay on medium
I published another, slightly better (IMHO) version of the Fahrenheit 451 essay I wrote.
You can read it HERE.
You can read it HERE.
Saturday, April 1, 2017
the curious case of sidd finch
This story ran in Sports Illustrated on April 1, 1985, when I was fifteen years old. As far as I am concerned it is the greatest April 1 story ever.
happy april 1
Thinking that April Fool's Day 2017 is a remembrance of a time when we
weren't fooled every day. Ask questions and express doubt about what
you see and what you read today-- and then do that every day from now
on.
my thoughts on fahrenheit 451
Thanks in advance for reading and for commenting to this post. Later this weekend I will also publish this on Medium, and I'll share the link when it's available there. In the meantime, here are some suggestions for getting the greatest benefit out of the experience, which continues well after the break:
1. Follow the footnotes
2. Click the links
3. Enjoy getting confused or experiencing questions-- and then ask the author
4. Find something you dis/agree with
5. When you see an argument, ask yourself what makes it in/effective
6. Most importantly, find something about reading this to ENJOY
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As you scroll down, you will get to what I hope are insights on Fahrenheit 451. First you will suffer through my thinking about this topic in general.
We should read the same books more than once, over time. As we change, the way we understand what we read changes. This is important.
The first time I read Hamlet I was in Jerry DeBono's1 AP English Literature class at Cleveland High School in Los Angeles. We read the play in class. Actually, that's a lie. I didn't read the play in class. I was thinking about other things while my unlucky friends who got chosen for the speaking parts tried unsuccessfully to salvage a shred of cool while mumbling and stumbling through their lines. The night before the test I read just enough of the play to write an essay. I understood what my teacher was asking, and I delivered an adequate-enough answer, but I didn't really understand the play-- not just because Shakespeare's iambic pentameter wasn't my native language, or because "To be or not to be" is such a hackneyed cliché, but because I didn't have enough experience to
1. Follow the footnotes
2. Click the links
3. Enjoy getting confused or experiencing questions-- and then ask the author
4. Find something you dis/agree with
5. When you see an argument, ask yourself what makes it in/effective
6. Most importantly, find something about reading this to ENJOY
_________________________________
As you scroll down, you will get to what I hope are insights on Fahrenheit 451. First you will suffer through my thinking about this topic in general.
We should read the same books more than once, over time. As we change, the way we understand what we read changes. This is important.
The first time I read Hamlet I was in Jerry DeBono's1 AP English Literature class at Cleveland High School in Los Angeles. We read the play in class. Actually, that's a lie. I didn't read the play in class. I was thinking about other things while my unlucky friends who got chosen for the speaking parts tried unsuccessfully to salvage a shred of cool while mumbling and stumbling through their lines. The night before the test I read just enough of the play to write an essay. I understood what my teacher was asking, and I delivered an adequate-enough answer, but I didn't really understand the play-- not just because Shakespeare's iambic pentameter wasn't my native language, or because "To be or not to be" is such a hackneyed cliché, but because I didn't have enough experience to
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