This is about novel Fahrenheit.
please finish the attached file.
Read instruction in the first page. And finish the rest of pages.
Topic Tracker: Fahrenheit 451
🎯 Learning Objective: I can determine how an author develops themes in a text.
Strategies for Identifying Theme
❏ Make connections between personal experiences and the experiences of the characters. What is relatable? What isn’t? This can help you identify beliefs you and the author might share or not share.
❏ Notice the problems, struggles, and conflicts you see the characters facing. Chances are, these are the seeds of theme.
❏ The Four Types of Conflict
❏ Especially pay attention to the differences between characters’ experiences and struggles. Which characters are struggling more than others and why?
❏ Identify the most prominent literary devices that the author is using [motif, symbolism, allusion, etc.]. Track the appearances, development, changes, etc. in these devices. These figurative choices are often connected to thematic messages.
❏ Ex: The “green light” symbol in The Great Gatsby is intrinsically tied to whatever Fitzgerald wants us to learn about the broad topic of hope.
❏ Identify broad topics that are being explored in the text [ex: hope, greed, power, the American dream, etc.]. Key an eye out for patterns in word choice to help reveal these topics.
❏ Ask questions of the text about these topics
❏ Identify key scenes and lines that seem closely associated with these topics.
❏ Read these scenes more than once. Unpack exactly what these scenes are showing us about the theme topics you are exploring.
❏ NOTE: There will be many, many topics explored in a novel, far too many for us to fully explore. I suggest you use the following criteria to help you focus in one just a few:
❏ Which topics do you think are most important to the author? Which topics are being given the most prominent attention in the novel?
❏ Which topics are most interesting to you, personally?
❏ As the book ends, be on the lookout for what lessons the characters seem to be learning about these broad topics that could lead to thematic statements.
Topic: Surveillance and Privacy
PART 1 – The Hearth and the Salamander
KEY SCENES AND LINES
➔ Identify key scenes and lines that seem closely associated with your topic.
➔ Read these scenes more than once. Unpack exactly what these scenes are showing us about the thematic topic you are exploring.
CHARACTERS
➔ What problems, struggles, and conflicts are characters facing that seem related to your topic?
➔ What are the differences between characters’ experiences and struggles? Which characters are struggling more than others and why?
LITERARY DEVICES
➔ Identify a prominent literary device that the author is using [motif, symbolism, allusion, etc.] that seems like it could be connected to your topic.
➔ Track the appearances, development, changes, etc. in this device. These figurative choices are often connected to thematic messages.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
➔ Make connections between personal experiences and the experiences of the characters. What is relatable? What isn’t? This can help you identify beliefs you and the author might share or not share.
➔ Note: These might not be literal!
PART 2 – The Sieve and the Sand
KEY SCENES AND LINES
➔ Identify key scenes and lines that seem closely associated with your topic.
➔ Read these scenes more than once. Unpack exactly what these scenes are showing us about the thematic topic you are exploring.
CHARACTERS
➔ What problems, struggles, and conflicts are characters facing that seem related to your topic?
➔ What are the differences between characters’ experiences and struggles? Which characters are struggling more than others and why?
LITERARY DEVICES
➔ Identify a prominent literary device that the author is using [motif, symbolism, allusion, etc.] that seems like it could be connected to your topic.
➔ Track the appearances, development, changes, etc. in this device. These figurative choices are often connected to thematic messages.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
➔ Make connections between personal experiences and the experiences of the characters. What is relatable? What isn’t? This can help you identify beliefs you and the author might share or not share.
➔ Note: These might not be literal!
PART 3 – BURNING BRIGHT
KEY SCENES AND LINES
➔ Identify key scenes and lines that seem closely associated with your topic.
➔ Read these scenes more than once. Unpack exactly what these scenes are showing us about the thematic topic you are exploring.
CHARACTERS
➔ What problems, struggles, and conflicts are characters facing that seem related to your topic?
➔ What are the differences between characters’ experiences and struggles? Which characters are struggling more than others and why?
LITERARY DEVICES
➔ Identify a prominent literary device that the author is using [motif, symbolism, allusion, etc.] that seems like it could be connected to your topic.
➔ Track the appearances, development, changes, etc. in this device. These figurative choices are often connected to thematic messages.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
➔ Make connections between personal experiences and the experiences of the characters. What is relatable? What isn’t? This can help you identify beliefs you and the author might share or not share.
➔ Note: These might not be literal!
- Literature
This is about novel Fahrenheit 451. please finish
– page 3 [The direction is in the first page and I finished the second page. Around 180 words will be enough as the answer] and
– page 4 [fill the yellow column] in the ppt file.
ANALYZING CHARACTER CONFLICT & THEME
- You will be assigned one of the main characters from Fahrenheit 451: Montag, Mildred, Captain Beatty, and Professor Faber
- Using your notes on theme development and character conflict, identify a CENTRAL conflict for your assigned character and find supporting evidence
- This is what the character’s main conflict appears to be. It does not mean it is the ONLY conflict.
- NOTE: Whichever group is doing a slide on Professor Faber will need to find two pieces of evidence from Part 2. Every other character will need evidence from parts 1 AND 2
- Using the list below, choose as many broad thematic topics that are relevant to this character’s conflict. NOTE: There may be topics relevant to the character, but not necessarily to your selected conflict. Be intentional with your choices.
- Technology
- Surveillance and Privacy
- Censorship and Access to Information
- Knowledge vs. Ignorance/Complacency
- Loss of Individuality and Social Disconnect
- Then, determine what Bradbury is trying to say about ONE of the topics based on the information you’ve collected. This should be in narrative form.
THEMATIC TOPICS CONNECTED TO THIS CONFLICT:
Based on the conflict you have identified, the evidence you have collected, and the relevant thematic topics, what do you think Bradbury is trying to say about ONE of the topics and HOW does this character’s conflict reveal/support that message?
EG Knowledge vs. Ignorance/Complacency
