Week 1 Work--Due Wednesday, August 30th

Note to parents and students--as I mentioned in the course description, students should anticipate about 4-5 hours outside work weekly.  If you work at these assignments throughout the next several days, you should be able to complete this week's work comfortably with time to spare.  Spread the work out instead of letting it clump up.  Time management is hugely important, especially as you prepare for upper-level coursework and for adult life in general.

1. Complete your Week 1 vocabulary work for the words below.  Click here to review directions.

Week 1 Vocabulary
sycophant
pernicious
ubiquitous
non sequitur
diatribe

2. Watch this video on comma splices.  This is one the grammar errors we discussed at the beginning of class.  Somewhere on your M.U.G. #1 handout, write out the four ways to fix a comma splice.

3. Watch the following Ray Bradbury interviews:

A Conversation with Ray Bradbury  (8 minutes)

Ray Bradbury Interview with Tobias Andersen January 2004 (Watch first 18 minutes only)

After watching both videos, write a paragraph summarizing the videos.  Remember that to summarize is to "SOME-er-ize."   You won't be able to share everything from the videos, so focus on a few highlights you found particularly interesting. Keep this paragraph in your class notes.

4. Finish the third prompt paragraph from class: 

Fahrenheit 451 Prompts

5. In your colored journal (which stays at home) pretend you are creating a work of speculative fiction that will be set 50 years from now.  Title the page In 2067 and write out 10 predictions about how you think life will be different in 2067.

6. Next week, we will spend about half of our class discussing Fahrenheit 451.  Complete this Google Form to suggest two or three questions that will generate good class discussion.

Note--I decided not to introduce Native American literature for this week's work.  We just have too much to think about and discuss with Bradbury first.  Please bring your Fahrenheit 451 book to class and be ready to talk about the book.  You won't need your Prentice Hall book this week either, so it can stay at home.

Questions!  I'm always an email away: elizabethjprice@gmail.com

Mrs. Price

Thought for the week:

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility....In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility."  -Michael Korda, Editor-in-Chief, Simon & Schuster