Monday, October 151. Vocab

2. Ray Bradbury Background3. Read intro to The Illustrated Man4. Tattoo assignment

HW - Tattoo assignment due tomorrow!I CAN:

* personally connect to a piece of literature & use that connection to understand an author's meaning better* use an author's background can help me to understand an author's meaning better

Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.

Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, FAHRENHEIT 451 and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st.

The Illustrated Man

THE ILLUSTRATED MAN is classic Bradbury --a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.

Tuesday, October 161. QW #12 - Tues. Tunes 2. Share tattoos3. Read The Veldt w/ study guideI CAN:* analyze why author's choose specific words to evoke a response from a reader* analyze a text & determine how an author utilizes foreshadowing & irony

QW #12

Stuck?·Have your parents ever made you extremely angry? Explain.·Do you think you are spoiled? Explain.·Can technology be bad for society? explain

Happy life, with the machines Scattered around the room Look what they made, they made it for me Happy technology

Outside, the lions runFeeding on remains We'll never leave, look at us now So in love with the way we are

Every night, they rock us to sleep Digital family Is it real, or is it a dream? Can you believe in machines?

Outside, the beating sun Can you hear the screams? We'll never leave, look at us now So in love with the way we are

HereThe world that the children made Here The world that the children made Here The world that the children made

* Use imagery - your five senses!

Literary Terms

Irony - opposite of what you expect

Diction - word choice - selected painstakingly by authors to elicit a response from the reader

Foreshadowing - clues/hints the author gives you about the end of the story

Tone - attitude of the author toward a subject

Mood - emotion a reader feels in reaction to a passage or entire story

The pictures were moving, each in its turn, each for a brief minute or two. There in the moonlight, with the tiny tinkling thoughts and the distant sea voices, it seemed, each little drama was enacted. Whether it took an hour or three hours for the dramas to finish, it would be hard to say. I only know that I lay fascinated and did not move while the stars wheeled in the sky.

Eighteen Illustrations, eighteen tales. I counted them one by one. Primarily my eyes focused upon a scene, a large house with two people in it. I saw a flight of vultures on a blazing flesh sky, I saw yellow lions, and I heard voices.

The first Illustration quivered and came to life....

1. What is the meaning of neurotic as used on page 6 of the story?

A. crazyB. playfulC. evilD. obsessed

2. On the last page of the story, why did "a shadow flicker over Mr. McClean's hot face"?

A. he was standing under a tree

B. he realized what happened

to Mr. & Mrs. Hadley C. a vulture flew over himD. he realized that he had

given the Hadley's bad advice

3. What is the tone of the story?

A. jovialB. apatheticC. cynicalD. admiring

4. What characterizes Mr. Hadley's initial reaction to the nursery?

A. carelessly nonchalantB. reluctantly committedC. wholeheartedly againstD. enthusiastically supportive

5. When George Hadley tells his family they are going to shut off the house he says,

"Now we're going to really start living."

Explain what he means by this phrase. Provide 3 examples from the story to support your response.