Holiday Work and ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Resources

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Holiday Homework

Your holiday homework is as follows:

 

Must be completed by Term 2 Day 1:

  1. Complete the screencasts/podcasts that you were working on during the final week of term. Upload any videos to YouTube as ‘Unlisted’ and email me the URL.
  2. Read/reread Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

 

Optional Extension Work

  1. Continue to practice text response essay writing with the resources previously provided.
  2. Watch one or more of the following science fiction films in order to further expand your understanding of the Future Worlds context study: Blade Runner, The Matrix (not the sequels!), Dark City, Twelve Monkeys, District 9, Gattaca, V for Vendetta, Minority Report, Avatar and/or I, Robot.

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Fahrenheit 451 Resources

You will need to read Fahrenheit 451 again before returning to term 2. This will be the novel text of our ‘Future Worlds’ context study. We will not be studying it in the specific detail that we did for Inheritance. Rather, we will be looking at the key themes and ideas explored in the novel. This means that you will need to come with a very good understanding of the plot, characters and setting.

If you require assistance with this, or would like to be extended, please use the following resources:

 

Basic

Comprehension questions. Use/answer these if you need something to help guide your reading of the novel and build your comprehension of key aspects of the text.

 

Intermediate

Social and Cultural Contexts: The following study guide extract gives a good overview of the relevant historical contexts of the novel Fahrenheit 451. It will help you identify and make links between some of the key themes of the text.

 

Characters, Motifs and Themes: This guide provides some brief but important analysis of key characters, symbols and ideas from the novel.

 

Advanced

If you what a bit of a challenge, but also the opportunity to unlock some much more complex and detailed ideas, you may want to try tackling the following academic journal articles that discuss the novel in detail: