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Monday, June 9

Students had the opportunity to look at their Fahrenheit 451 tests and answer sheets. They had to turn these back in but have the opportunity to get them after school today or before school tomorrow.

Students were given a final exam review and a works cited practice sheet. A key to the works cited practice sheet is on the Y-Drive in the "FINAL EXAM REVIEW" folder.

Students were directed to go to the following website and watch the 3 videos for a review on plagiarism: http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/

The final exam will include: Julius Caesar, Fahrenheit 451, a new reading selection with questions, MLA format, plagiarism, and vocabulary.

Items students should be able to identify on a Works Cited Page include:
∞ URL
∞ Webpage title
∞ Publisher
∞ Date accessed
∞ Author
∞ Date published
∞ Publication title (i.e. magazine, newspaper, including online periodicals)
∞ Book title
∞ Date the Webpage was last updated
∞ Place of publication
∞ Website Title
∞ Title of an online newspaper or magazine article

Vocabulary to study

∞ odious
∞ diversion
∞ mores
∞ discourse
∞ litany
∞ imperatives
∞ concerted
∞ trivial
∞ canonical
∞ coherent
∞ ascent
∞ entreat
∞ visage
∞ emulation
∞ frivolous
∞ aesthetic
∞ eulogize
∞ marshal
∞ ascend
∞ digress
∞ puissant
∞ solipsistic
∞ emulation
∞ appertain
∞ stolid
∞ proclivities
∞ manifested
∞ juggernaut

Thursday, June 5

Afterword & Coda vocabulary

•Stacks: the area or part of a library in which the books and other holdings are stored or kept.
•Tiffin – midday meal; luncheon
•Litany – liturgical prayer/recitation
•Uncle Tom: a black man considered by other blacks to be subservient to or to curry favor with whites. ("curry favor” - to seek to advance oneself through flattery)
•Blanc-mange – “white food” or bland food
•Aesthetics – study of mind and emotions in relation to beauty
•Imperatives – commands, authorities
•Digress – deviate or wander away from the main topic

Afterword Questions:

•Have you ever finished a book (or movie) and wanted to know more about the characters? Wanted to know more about what was happening while the story was taking place or before the story took place? (If you watch the movie instead of read the book, you will have these questions!)
•What does Bradbury tell us in the Afterword?
•Why did Beatty choose to be a fireman?
•How does Bradbury feel about Clarisse’s character?

Grade sheets were given to students. Final grades were written on the bottom. These will change after the final exam is entered.

2nd and 4th returned books. I will take 6th's books on Monday. Replacement cost for textbooks is $65.05 and must be paid through the front office.

Brief Exam Review:
•Julius Caesar
•Fahrenheit 451
•MLA format
•Plagiarism
•Vocabulary – Julius Caesar, “Can U Read Kant?” & Afterword/Coda.

Detailed review will be given on Monday.

Tuesday, June 3

• Students took the test over Fahrenheit 451.
• Students turned in the writing assignment (worth 20 points on the test).
• Students turned in optional journal and any late projects that were due last class.
• Students turned in books they purchased for an extra 10 test points.

Homework: Read the Afterword and Coda from Fahrenheit 451. (copies were given to each student). Notes and assignment are as follows:

Afterword - a concluding section, commentary, etc., as of a book, treatise, or the like; closing statement
Coda - anything that serves as a concluding part
1.Read the afterword and coda.
2.Highlight unfamiliar words.
3.Make notes in the margins as you read.
4.Summarize the afterword in 2 paragraphs.
5.Summarize the coda in 1 paragraph.
Due next class.

Textbooks will be turned in next class (and following class days). Students may turn in their books to my office AFTER school (while space permits. I don't have room for all 80 books!)

Additional Test Review

Quotes. Who said it? Of what is s/he speaking?

“I must admit that your blind raging invigorated me. God, how young I felt! But now – I want you to feel old, I want a little of my cowardice to be distilled in you tonight.”

"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense."


“The show’s got to have a snap ending, quick! If they started searching the whole damn river it might take all night. So they’re sniffing for a scapegoat to end things with a bang. Watch. They’ll catch Montag in the next five minutes!”

Do you remember the toothpaste jingle?

What is the allusion to Alice in Wonderland?