 Teacher
Preparation Page
and Links to Curriculum
Teachers have two options with
these pages in The English Room. The pages for Fahrenheit 451 can
be accessed by students directly on the web or teachers may download the pages and take
them into the class. This will work for every page except the Links to Research
page.
The materials you will need are:
access to the Internet for all
students (the ideal); at least access for the teacher
copies of Fahrenheit
451 for all students
access to computers, word
processors, or typewriters for the writing of the papers required by this unit
multimedia authoring programs
such as PowerPoint or Hyperstudio
The unit will take 4 weeks for
the reading and working on projects. An additional day for each 5 students will be
needed for oral/visual presentations.
The unit is designed to
accomplish goals and objectives in several areas of the English/Language Arts
curriculum. The student activities in the long-term projects and short-term
projects, and reading logs are designed to reach the following goals:
In READING, students will:
demonstrate an understanding
of plot;
demonstrate an understanding
of characterization;
demonstrate understanding of
theme;
demonstrate making inferences;
demonstrate predicting;
demonstrate understanding mood
and motif; and
demonstrate grade-appropriate
comprehension
In WRITING, students will:
demonstrate the elements of a
persuasive essay;
demonstrate the elements of a
comparative essay;
demonstrate skills in writing
a brief research paper;
demonstrate knowledge and use
of writing traits; and
demonstrate writing to learn
In SPEAKING, students will:
demonstrate appropriate
methods to communicate to an audience, all of which depends upon the mode they choose; and
demonstrate their
understanding of public speaking rubrics
In TECHNOLOGY, students will:
demonstrate understanding of
doing an Internet search;
demonstrate basic knowledge of
word processing programs; and
demonstrate knowledge of
citing Internet sources
The above objectives presuppose
students have had prior instruction in the basic skills of Reading, Writing, Speaking, and
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