Feb 5 - 3V - P2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

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?

Goals

I can talk about the ideas and background information 

of the book Fahrenheit 451

Programme

America in the 1950s

Links to the book

How would you describe the genre of Fahrenheit 451?

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

America in the 1950s

Post-war America

Business + the economy was growing and booming!

But also....

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

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What audience do you think is targeted with this commercial?

1. Children
2. Adults
3. Elderly
4. Everyone

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How effective do you think it is to duck and cover when an atomic bomb falls?

1. Very effective
2. A bit effective
3. Not effective

Authority: protect and keep it simple....

Link to Nuclear detonation

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

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

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 . . .”

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.”

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. 

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

Thank you for paying attention!