Hour 1:
MUN

Hour 2:
Survey for Writing Supports

Censorship Image Poetry

​Worktime for Zine/Presentation

PRESENTATION ON REGIME: May 1st (2 work days left)
DRAFT #1 ZINE: May 2nd (3 work days left) 

Use your time wisely! 

Project Description

ZINE CREATION
Zine time (Project work time)
1. Fill out the graphic organizer with your group
2. Make your link public and submit your group's organizer to this form

Zines:  You will self-publish an 8-page zine that deals with one of the “issues adults argue about.”  Zines need to be black-and-white and reproducible on a copy machine.
1 page: cover art (with authors’ names)
1 page: Balanced, unbiased background information about the issue
3 pages: Persuasive writing about one side of the issue, making use of evidence (your zine must have at least 2 different sides presented).
1 pages: censorship image poetry
2 pages: choice
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Total of 8 pages

REGIME PRESENTATION
Research and present on a totalitarian regime.  Explain the leader’s rise to power and cite at 3+ characteristics of restrictive governments with specific examples from the regime. Be sure to evaluate the extent to which the actions of the government affected everyday life for citizens.  Each partner must speak during the presentation.

*Challenge Option: 
Give an additional example and identify scenes or quotes from Fahrenheit 451 that relate to the regime you study.  Explain how the literature and history connect.

Regime Presentation Rubric

Hour 2: 
Fahrenheit 451 Reading 
​
SHARE Magazine- Karen Friend Smith (11am-11:30am) 

HW: 
Remember, your DO SOMETHING write up is due on May 1st!

Work on your presentations and your zines

Challenge Packet

​Fahrenheit 451 Reading

Hour 1:
Zine/Presentation Work time

Next Project: Challenge Packet

PRESENTATION ON REGIME: May 1st (3 work days left)
DRAFT #1 ZINE: May 2nd (4 work days left) 

Use your time wisely! 

Project Description

ZINE CREATION
Zine time (Project work time)
1. Fill out the graphic organizer with your group
2. Make your link public and submit your group's organizer to this form

Zines:  You will self-publish an 8-page zine that deals with one of the “issues adults argue about.”  Zines need to be black-and-white and reproducible on a copy machine.
1 page: cover art (with authors’ names)
1 page: Balanced, unbiased background information about the issue
3 pages: Persuasive writing about one side of the issue, making use of evidence (your zine must have at least 2 different sides presented).
1 pages: censorship image poetry
2 pages: choice
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Total of 8 pages

REGIME PRESENTATION
Research and present on a totalitarian regime.  Explain the leader’s rise to power and cite at 3+ characteristics of restrictive governments with specific examples from the regime. Be sure to evaluate the extent to which the actions of the government affected everyday life for citizens.  Each partner must speak during the presentation.

*Challenge Option: 
Give an additional example and identify scenes or quotes from Fahrenheit 451 that relate to the regime you study.  Explain how the literature and history connect.

Regime Presentation Rubric

Hour 2: 
Fahrenheit 451 Reading 
​
SHARE Magazine- Karen Friend Smith (11am-11:30am) 

HW: 
Remember, your DO SOMETHING write up is due on May 1st!

Work on your presentations and your zines

Challenge Packet

​Fahrenheit 451 Reading

Hour 1:
MUN

Hour 2:
Next Project: Challenge Packet

PRESENTATION ON REGIME: May 1st (4 work days left)
DRAFT #1 ZINE: May 2nd (5 work days left) 

Use your time wisely! 

Project Description

ZINE CREATION
Zine time (Project work time)
1. Fill out the graphic organizer with your group
2. Make your link public and submit your group's organizer to this form

Zines:  You will self-publish an 8-page zine that deals with one of the “issues adults argue about.”  Zines need to be black-and-white and reproducible on a copy machine.
1 page: cover art (with authors’ names)
1 page: Balanced, unbiased background information about the issue
3 pages: Persuasive writing about one side of the issue, making use of evidence (your zine must have at least 2 different sides presented).
1 pages: censorship image poetry
2 pages: choice
---------
Total of 8 pages

REGIME PRESENTATION
Research and present on a totalitarian regime.  Explain the leader’s rise to power and cite at 3+ characteristics of restrictive governments with specific examples from the regime. Be sure to evaluate the extent to which the actions of the government affected everyday life for citizens.  Each partner must speak during the presentation.

Presentations should be 10-15 minutes long and all group members must speak.
​For an example of a presentation Case Study, see Ms. Johnson's slideshow on Stalin's Russia. 

*Challenge Option:
Give an additional example and identify scenes or quotes from Fahrenheit 451 that relate to the regime you study.  Explain how the literature and history connect.

HW: 
Remember, your DO SOMETHING write up is due on May 1st!

Work on your presentations and your zines

Challenge Packet

Hour 1:
College day permission slips and reminders
College day choices are UCLA and UCI
When you return with your fee and permission slip to us, you will be able to sign up with me or Schwartz. 
​MUN Speech Practicing

Hour 2: 
Please take out your independent reading book and read silently. 

Assessment #1 Answers & Thinking
Re-Do Date: Thursday 27th at Lunch ONLY

Research time (Presentation work time)
Goal: Decide on 3 takeaways for your presentation (what do you want students to know at the end of your presentation?)
Exit Ticket

Zine time (Project work time)
1. Fill out the graphic organizer with your group
2. Make your link public and submit your group's organizer to this form

Zine Feedback Session:
1. Go to this google spreadsheet and look over at least two different groups' organizer. Leave at least one comment on each organizer you look at. 

Homework:
Remember, your DO SOMETHING write up is due on May 1st!

​College Day Permission Slips

​Finish Part II of Fahrenheit 451

Hour 1:
MUN

Hour 2:
Assessment #1 

Fahrenheit 451 Reading

Research Time ~30 min
1) Read summary feedback from yesterday's work
2) Work together to fill in any gaps in your knowledge
3) Begin creating your presentation
4) Goal: Decide on 3 takeaways for your presentation (what do you want students to know at the end of your presentation?)

Exit Ticket

Homework:
Read Fahrenheit through p. 96 in the small edition OR to the line "Any moment, they might hiss a long, sputtering hiss and explode." 

Hour 1:
Please turn in your Fahrenheit 451 worksheet from yesterday.
​
Model UN

Hour 2:
Thinking Tracker~
1. What are some things that contemporary United States has in common with the world of Fahrenheit 451?

2. Ray Bradbury takes technology to the extreme in the world of Fahrenheit 451 with the giant parlor walls, the mechanical hounds, the seeing snake, etc. What is something that you see in the world that, if taken to an extreme, would create a dystopian society for you. I suggest starting out with: Imagine if you were in a world where _____ has taken over. Describe this setting in as much detail as possible.

When you are done, take out your independent reading book and read quietly. 

Discussion

Continue researching your regime/society.

Work time
Research for your regime/society

Exit Ticket

Homework:
Due TOMORROW beginning of class- final draft of MUN position paper

Hour 1:
Model UN

Hour 2:
Please have a seat and silently read your independent reading book. 

Focus Question: ​What similarities does contemporary United States (our here and now!) have with the world of Fahrenheit 451? 
Focus Term: Protagonist

Fahrenheit 451 Reading

Regime Selection

Regime Initial Research Document
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Homework:
Due TONIGHT before midnight- Update your reading log! You should now have THREE reading log entries in the bottom table. At the top table, please keep up with logging books that you've finished.

Due TOMORROW beginning of class- Fahrenheit 451 Part II Worksheet, completed! Read through page 83 ending with the paragraph that starts "So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life." 

Due TOMORROW beginning of class- Rough draft of position paper (WORK ETHIC POINTS!!!)

Due WEDNESDAY beginning of class- Final draft of position paper (WORK ETHIC POINTS!!!)

Humanities:
Model UN
Model UN Position Paper
MUN Resources: http://hthncmodelun.weebly.com/ncvc-resources.html

Homework:
Do an independent reading log update! (the bottom table)
​Finish reading Book 1 in Fahrenheit 451 by Monday! 
Research/Work on your Position Paper (Rough Draft DUE Tuesday the 18th/Final Draft DUE Wednesday the 19th)

Hour 1:
Model UN

Hour 2:
1) Read the response you wrote yesterday
2) Review any comments on your paper
____________________________

3) Decide 1-2 things you did well and want to do again today
4) Decide 1 area you want to improve when you write today
5) Did you have any of the following problems?

• I wrote parts in the first-person
• My claim could have been stronger or more specific
  • try using 'because' in the middle of your claim
• My claim wasn't debatable
• I didn't write enough commentary
• I needed to strengthen my commentary
• Parts of my response conflicted with other parts
• I needed to add data
• I didn't write in an academic tone
  • Psssst - you shouldn't use the F word in your argumentation because it makes you appear less credible to your reader
• I needed to push myself to write a counter claim

Hour 1: 
Thinking Tracker:
1. What happened to Mildred and how was this resolved? 
2. What is different about Clarisse's family? 

Once you finish your thinking tracker, please take out your independent reading book and read. 

Yesterday's Graphic Organizer 

Seating & Grouping
Pinwheel Exhibition Video

Project Description
Reading of Fahrenheit 451
Discussion of Fahrenheit 451

Break

​Hour 2: 
Argumentation Presentation 

Article: Twitter
Article: Wikileaks

Short Response: Security or Liberty?

If you finish your short response early, please take out your independent reading book and read. 

Homework: Finish reading Book 1 in Fahrenheit 451 by Monday​