Fahrenheit 451 Vocab, part I
Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary, part II
Fahrenheit 451 Vocab, part III
Writing assignment (1.25-2 pages handwritten)
In addition to Changing Education Paradigms, we will also watch part of a talk on the idea that
Schools Kill CreativityCiting three examples from the Changing Education Paradigms video,
ESSAY PROMPT: Explain why Clarisse dosn't fit into the world of the novel Fahrenheit 451.
(Hint: she wouldn't fit into the American system of education, according to the video).
She is a free thinker, and in the world of Fahrenheit 451 free thinkers are punished. Interestinly, there are some progressive teachers who feel that our educational system punishes people like Clarisse. Kenneth Robinson expresses this idea in his lecture Changing Education Paradigms. As you write your essay, you are to use the ideas of the video to help me understand why Clarisse doesn't fit into her world.
To write this essay, you will need to start with an introductory sentence that pulls the reader into your essay. Sometimes that sentence is simply a statement of your idea. At other times the opening is an example (from the book or video) that helps us understand the point that you will be making.
Also, you need to make sure that the reader knows what the world of Fahrenheit 451 is like if you are going to discuss the ways that she doesn't fit in.
Find examples that show Clarisse's way of thinking and explain that her view of the world does not fit in with the ways that society wants her to be. You also need to find three examples from the video that will help us understand Clarisse's way of thinking. These examples will show why people like her don't fit into a world that values conformity over creativity.
Remember, Clarisse is very different from most people in the book. Most people are like Mildred (Guy Montag's wife), who anesthetizes herself with sleeping pills and sits in front of the TV like a zombie. Clarisse puzzles her psychologists. She says, "They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think"(20).In the Sparknotes summary of the last part of "The Hearth and the Salamander," we read:
Beatty explains that after all houses were fireproofed, the firemen’s job changed from its old purpose of preventing fires to its new mission of burning the books that could allow one person to excel intellectually, spiritually, and practically over others and so make everyone else feel inferior. Montag asks how someone like Clarisse could exist, and Beatty says the firemen have been keeping an eye on her family because they worked against the schools’ system of homogenization.
One of the criticisms of the educational system in the United States and the U.K. is that schools homogenize the students who are taught in them.
homogenize: to make uniform or similar; to blend and make similar, especially by reducting one element and blending with the other substance
Example sentence: It is nice to attend a school where the students feel like they can dress in their own, unique way rather than becoming homogenized.
Watch the following video on our public educational system. I think that you'll really like it
(Wow, something in my English class that I'll actually like?!!)
Changing Education Paradigms by Sir Kenneth Robinson
paradigm: model or pattern
Example sentence: There is a new paradigm for education: we now feel that different things are important because we now value different things
Writing assignment (2 pages handwritten)
Citing three examples from the Changing Education Paradigms video, explain why Clarisse and her family don't fit into the world of the novel Fahrenheit 451.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
Remember, Clarisse is very different from most people in the book. Most people are like Mildred (Guy Montag's wife), who anesthetizes herself with sleeping pills and sits in front of the TV like a zombie. Clarisse puzzles her psychologists. She says, "They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think"(20).
ESSAY PROMPT: Explain why Clarisse dosn't fit into the world of the novel Fahrenheit 451.
(Hint: she wouldn't fit into the American system of education, according to the video).
She is a free thinker, and in the world of Fahrenheit 451 free thinkers are punished. Interestinly, there are some progressive teachers who feel that our educational system punishes people like Clarisse. Kenneth Robinson expresses this idea in his lecture Changing Education Paradigms. As you write your essay, you are to use the ideas of the video to help me understand why Clarisse doesn't fit into her world.
To write this essay, you will need to start with an introductory sentence that pulls the reader into your essay. Sometimes that sentence is simply a statement of your idea. At other times the opening is an example (from the book or video) that helps us understand the point that you will be making.
Also, you need to make sure that the reader knows what the world of Fahrenheit 451 is like if you are going to discuss the ways that she doesn't fit in.
Find examples that show Clarisse's way of thinking and explain that her view of the world does not fit in with the ways that society wants her to be. You also need to find three examples from the video that will help us understand Clarisse's way of thinking. These examples will show why people like her don't fit into a world that values conformity over creativity.
Remember, Clarisse is very different from most people in the book. Most people are like Mildred (Guy Montag's wife), who anesthetizes herself with sleeping pills and sits in front of the TV like a zombie. Clarisse puzzles her psychologists. She says, "They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think"(20).In the Sparknotes summary of the last part of "The Hearth and the Salamander," we read:
Beatty explains that after all houses were fireproofed, the firemen’s job changed from its old purpose of preventing fires to its new mission of burning the books that could allow one person to excel intellectually, spiritually, and practically over others and so make everyone else feel inferior. Montag asks how someone like Clarisse could exist, and Beatty says the firemen have been keeping an eye on her family because they worked against the schools’ system of homogenization.
One of the criticisms of the educational system in the United States and the U.K. is that schools homogenize the students who are taught in them.
homogenize: to make uniform or similar; to blend and make similar, especially by reducting one element and blending with the other substance
Example sentence: It is nice to attend a school where the students feel like they can dress in their own, unique way rather than becoming homogenized.
Watch the following video on our public educational system. I think that you'll really like it
(Wow, something in my English class that I'll actually like?!!)
Changing Education Paradigms by Sir Kenneth Robinson
paradigm: model or pattern
Example sentence: There is a new paradigm for education: we now feel that different things are important because we now value different things
Writing assignment (2 pages handwritten)
Citing three examples from the Changing Education Paradigms video, explain why Clarisse and her family don't fit into the world of the novel Fahrenheit 451.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
Remember, Clarisse is very different from most people in the book. Most people are like Mildred (Guy Montag's wife), who anesthetizes herself with sleeping pills and sits in front of the TV like a zombie. Clarisse puzzles her psychologists. She says, "They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think"(20).
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