Review for Feb. 26, 07

After I did the blog, Mrs. Hillestad kinda reviewed what happened last week. Then we talked about Farenheit 415. First, we talked about how the setting of the book is more of a dystopia (like utopia but underneath it's the opposite). Then we started to discuss the major characters of the book. We talked about Guy and how he just does as he is told at first and how later he actually starts thinking. We talked about Mildred and how she is the example of what the people are like in this book. We spoke about how the author was writing this as like a prediction of the future with 3-wall tv's and "seashell" earplugs and that he wasn't exactly right but he came really close.Then we talked a lot about Clarisse and how she feels bored at her school and how some of us felt like that in our government classes this year because there was no AP program for government. And how she is inquisitive and she is supposed to represent what people were like a long time ago. We also talked about what Captain Beatty tells Guy about how the profession of the firemen started and that even though this book talks about censorship, the subtext is telling us to ask questions and be involved (which kinda ties into politics). The period ended with Mrs. Hillestad giving us a poem "The Hollow Men" and we were supposed to read it and make notes on it by Wednesday. xoxoxoxoxox