Introduction
This is a WebQuest that will demonstrate what I have learned through out reading the book Fahrenheit 451.
Task
1st Artifact: Option 2: Ray Bradbury wrote this text during the 1950’s, influenced by when the Russian/Soviet and German regimes were burning books. Find 3 informational articles about the rationale, causes, and effects the book burning had on their society. Design and answer the questions that your WebQuest will ask. These questions will ask for citations.
1. What does book burning symbolize?
To get rid of anything unGerman ideas. Germans wanted anything that wasn't their religion burned to get rid of it. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-bookburn.htm
2. Where did they do the book burning?
Berlin, Germany on May 10th, 1933 at night. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005852
3. How many books were burned?
Students had carted over 20,000 books to the public square, including works by famous German authors like Heinrich Mann, Erich Maria Remarque and Joachim Ringelnatz. http://www.dw.com/en/cultural-incineration-80-years-since-nazi-book-burnings/a-16798958?scrlybrkr=88ae1101
Process
Artifact 2: Option 4: Pick a historical event that depicts a change in regime or leadership that is similar to the dystopian society depicted in F451. Write at least two developed paragraphs explaining how the switch of power acted in a similar fashion as the firemen.
Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction story in which Guy Montag, the main character lives in a dystopian civilization where citizens of the society are controlled deeply by an oppressive government. The government can be thought of as a totalitarian in which they have full control over the freedom and will of the society. One of the rules they have is no one is able to read, meaning all books are meant to be burned. This deed is done by the fireman who are able to take a book home at night, but if someone else were to do this then they would be their next victim. Because of this people aren’t aloud to believe in fantasies or have their own opinions about things since everything is based off of facts. In the book, Montag ends up stealing a book to take home in hope to find the mystery behind the text. As the firemen find out they send out the hound which is a killing machine, but once they lose Montag’s scent from chasing him they make it look like they killed him by going after an innocent man. Bombs are then sent out that ended up destroying the whole city, everyone then goes out to find and rebuild a new society in which they are able to have the freedom they deserve.
In America’s history there hasn’t been a time in which there was an identical event that contrasts to the book Fahrenheit 451, but there has been cases where in a society there has been individuals that don’t get the certain freedom as others do in a time period. In the mid 1800’s women all over the world were considered a piece of property by men in their lives. People could almost compare this time zone with slavery in which women were forced to stay inside the house and do all the house chores while their husbands and sons were doing the work that brought home the money. Once the nineteenth amendment was passed it would grant women the right to vote which can also be known as woman suffrage. It was the beginning for women to gain their freedom and soon after would be allowed to do the same part as what men were able to do.
Evaluation
Artifact 3:
Option 13: Find 20-25 words from the text that you are unclear of their definition. Look up their meaning and define the term. Then using the passage from the text we write the passage using your new understanding of the term. Then use the word in 1-2 sentences appropriately to further show your understanding of the term.
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Waft
Definition- to send/carry lightly through the air or across water.
Passage- “Montag lead to the exit of the fire station and as he viewed both ways on the midnight street he looked up toward the subway where the siler, air-propelled train soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air and to the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb. Whistling, Montag let the escalator floated him up into the still night air.”
Sentence- The scent of food wafted throughout the house.
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Refract
Definition- 1. Change in direction when something enters at an angle
2. Measure the focusing characteristics of (an eye) or of the eyes of (someone)
Paragraph- “He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that angled your own light to you? People were more often-he searched for a simile, found one in his work-torches, blazing away until they whiffed out.”
Sentence- The simplest way of showing dispersion is to refract a narrow beam of sunlight through a prism of glass or prismatic vessel containing water or other clear liquid.
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Drone
Definition- a remote controlled airplane without a pilot on board
Paragraph- “The flutter of cards, motion of hands, of eyelids, the sound of the time-voice in the firehouse ceiling”... one thirty five. Thursday morning. November 4th,... one thirty-six . . . one thirty-seven a.m…””
Sentence- A drone of voices was audible through the closed window.
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Proboscis
Definition- 1. The trunk of an elephant
2. Any long flexible snout
Paragraph- “Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the snout of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.”
Sentence- The elephant thrust his proboscis into the lake, which disturbed the reflection.
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Ravenous
Definition- extremely hungry; famished; voracious
Paragraph- “His hands were famished. And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything.”
Sentence- Because bears are likely to be more ravenous after hibernation, campers should be watchful in the early spring.
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Centrifuge
Definition- a piece of machinery that spins rapidly in order to create a force which separates substances
Paragraph-””..............Whirl man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters, that the machine flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!"”
Sentence- When it’s necessary to separate cream from skim milk, a type of centrifuge is used to force the cream to rise.
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Breach
Definition- a violation of an agreement, law, or code of ethics or conduct
Paragraph- “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Violating man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well? Read man? Me?”
Sentence- By not paying your rent each month, you are executing a breach of contract.
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Gorge
Definition- to consume in huge amounts
Paragraph- “"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" It was a plea, a cry so terrible that Montag found himself on his feet, the shocked inhabitants of the loud car staring, moving back from this man with the insane, gorged face, the gibbering, dry mouth, the flapping book in his fist…….””
Sentence- On Halloween night, most children gorge on candy.
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Jowl
Definition- 1. a jaw, especially the lower one
2. a cheek
Paragraph- “Faber examined Montag's thin, blue-jawed face. "How did you get shaken up? What knocked the torch out of your hands?"”
Sentence- Then their noses touched, and he felt the warm little tongue of the puppy on his jowl.
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Profusion
Definition- being in great abundance
Paragraph- “You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite abundance. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more `literary' you are.”
Sentence- In the summer, my dog is always covered with a profusion of fleas.
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Linguist
Definition- a person who is skilled in several languages
Paragraph- “"Aren't there professors like yourself, former writers, historians, people that are able to speak multiple languages . . .?"”
Sentence- At our school we have a linguist to teach the students that aren’t very good with english.
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Homely
Definition- 1. lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive
2. proper or suited to the home or to ordinary domestic life
Paragraph- “"He wasn't much, was he? Kind of small and unattractive and he didn't shave too close or comb his hair very well."”
Sentence- The girl had cried when the boys had told her she was homely.
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Moor
Definition- to tie up a ship
Paragraph- “Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.”
Sentence- There are thousands of yachts that moor at the marina.
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Beatific
Definition- bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness
Paragraph-””.........And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in happy silence, all -dwindled away to peace."”
Sentence- The bride looked angelic and wore a beatific expression as she walked down the aisle.
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Chaff
Definition- of very little value
Paragraph- “the poor women in his parlour tonight, with the kernels blown out from under them by a neon wind, and his silly damned reading of a book to them.”
Sentence- The pawn store owner refused to buy the thief’s chaff because it was worthless.
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Gingerly
Definition- gently
Paragraph- “He sipped it gently and felt them looking at him with curiosity. His lips were scalded, but that was good.”
Sentence- After falling from the horse, he gingerly tried to stand on his throbbing foot, and found that he couldn’t.
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Anesthetize
Definition- to render physically insensible, as by an anesthetic
Paragraph- “Once they had been caught they were tazed and become anesthetize.”
Sentence- They acquired the tools to accomplish the deed, including a stun gun and the chemical means to anesthetize their victims.
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Scythe
Definition- a tool with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole, used for cutting grass or grain by hand
Paragraph- “The bombardment was to all intents and purposes finished, once the jets had sighted their target, alerted their bombardiers at five thousand miles an hour; as quick as the whisper of a scythe the war was finished.”
Sentence- The farmer expertly guided the scythe through the wheat fields, collecting the harvest.
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Oracle
Definition- an individual with great intelligence or a person who speaks for a deity
Paragraph- ““.......'The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.'"”
Sentence- The computer genius is viewed as the oracle of technology who changed the world.
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Fathom
Definition- to penetrate for understanding
Paragraph- “There was a tiny dance of melody in the air, her Seashell was tamped in her ear again and she was listening to far people in far places, her eyes wide and staring at the fathoms of blackness above her in the ceiling.”
Sentence- Since I have always done my work, I cannot fathom why my boss just fired me.
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Pulverized
Definition- to demolish or crush completely; to reduce to powder or dust.
Paragraph- (11) As Montag looked up at the stars he perceived them to have been crushed by the roaring sound of the jets and that as the sun would rise the earth would have been covered with the stars powered like a strange snow.
Sentence- Using the food processor, I am going to pulverize the vegetables in small pieces.
22. Illuminate
Definition- to bring attention to or shine light upon
Paragraph- “The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse.”
Sentence- Hopefully the justice department’s investigation will illuminate the police corruption in the small town.
23. Nectar
Definition- the sweet liquid produced from certain plants and flowers that bees turn into honey
Paragraph- “It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.”
Sentence- Instead of acquiring the nectar from the plant, the farmers knew to wait until the bumblebees would convert it into honey.