Feb 5 - 3V - P2

To do:
  • Keep all but your laptop, notebook and pens in the bag
  • Air pods/head phones/etc + phone in the bag


Assignment:
1. Sit next to your Speaking partner(s)

2. What do you know about the 1950s in America?
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This lesson contains 30 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 3 videos.

time-iconLesson duration is: 50 min

Items in this lesson

To do:
  • Keep all but your laptop, notebook and pens in the bag
  • Air pods/head phones/etc + phone in the bag


Assignment:
1. Sit next to your Speaking partner(s)

2. What do you know about the 1950s in America?

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Goals
I can talk about the ideas and background information 
of the book Fahrenheit 451

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Programme
America in the 1950s
Links to the book

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How would you describe the genre of Fahrenheit 451?

Slide 4 - Open question

America in the 1950s,
What do you know about this specific time?

Slide 5 - Open question

America in the 1950s

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Post-war America
Business + the economy was growing and booming!

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Slide 9 - Video

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But also....

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If an atomic bomb were to fall and you had a 10 minute warning, what would you do?

Slide 17 - Open question

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Slide 19 - Video

What audience do you think is targeted with this commercial?
A
Children
B
Adults
C
Elderly
D
Everyone

Slide 20 - Quiz

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Slide 21 - Video

How effective do you think it is to duck and cover when an atomic bomb falls?
A
Very effective
B
A bit effective
C
Not effective

Slide 22 - Quiz

Authority: protect and keep it simple....

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Book - reality/history
What: with a partner, write down what elements you recognize from this history lesson and what elements from the book might look similar?
Think events, inventions, fashion, etc. 
Tools: your notebook + pen
Time: 5 minutes
timer
5:00

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Do you worry about the future?
Why (not)?

Slide 25 - Open question

The nearsighted
writer who saw far
into the future
“really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together . . .”

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The nearsighted
writer who saw far
into the future
“And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind.”

“. . . he had visited the bank, which was open all night every night with robot tellers in attendance.”

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Think like Bradbury
To think like Bradbury is to dream and to be aware of possibilities
What lies ahead and how can we best prepare for it?

Which socially unhelpful innovations he foresaw decades ago could be reversed or how could they be changed?

How can we protect the freedom of the imagination/ free speech?

How can we all start believing that anything is possible?
With your partner pick 1 question and try to apply it to this day and age and try to anwer it. 
timer
8:00

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Homework
1. Continue with preps for your Speaking test
2. Go to this list and see how many things you may have read by banned book authors

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Thank you for paying attention!

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