Day 17

Objective:  The students will complete the assignment for "Long Way Home."

Get your graded Pedestrian assignment  from then back folder.  Be NEAT!

1.  WP #7

2.  Complete "Long Way Home" assignment.  For the Venn Diagram, I want to see 15+ bullets for each story and at least 5 things in the middle that they have in common.

3.  We start Monte Cristo on Friday, so if you want to buy it to close read for extra credit, make sure you buy the correct abridged version (the one that has 71 chapters).  See the link on warrenmlk.com

WP:  Write an intro paragraph using sentences below that follows the inverted triangle format.

Essay prompt:  After reading “The Pedestrian,” discuss what the overall theme to the story is in detail.

 

Write the following in proper Inverted Triangle Format.

 

1.  Many of these authors paint a gloomy picture of future society.

 

2.  The overall theme of “The Pedestrian” is that the use of too much technology makes people easily controlled.

 

3.  Writers of science fiction often focus their writing on what they think future society will be like.

 

4.  Ray Bradbury, one of America’s most prolific writers, wrote a cautionary tale in 1963 called “The Pedestrian.”

 

5.  The story presents a world where individual choice is against the law.

 

 

 

Day 16

Objective:  The students will read their second short story.

1.  WP #6

2.  Turn in "The Pedestrian" close reading, questions and romantic writing.

3.  Question:  How does "The Pedestrian" answer the question:  How much of people's lives do they actually control?

4.  Close Read "Long Way Home." 

 

WP Activity:  The Pedestrian Activity

 

     Ray Bradbury suggests in his story, The Pedestrian, that television can be used to control society.  Many people feel that the stories theme is not applicable to society today.  People are used to many different forms of entertainment and technology.  Today people have computers cell phones and video games that distract more then television, so they can’t be distracted very easily.

1.                        2.                3.                     4.                    5.             6.

 

Day 15

Objective:  The students will do a bit of creative writing.

1.  WP #5

2.  Discuss "The Pedestrian" assignment and questions.

3.  Creative Writing:  Rewrite the first paragraph of "The Pedestrian" but change its tone to a romantic one.

 

To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do. He would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference; he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.