English 11 Homework for Monday, Dec. 1 and the rest of the week:

1. F451: Clean up/Develop your LC#3 notes so that you can use them next week when you develop your Essay Outline.

2. Kohlberg' Stages of Moral Development: Take some time to study this handout over the next few days, so you can apply it to your essay. You will be applying these stages to Montag, through concrete examples, but also to a few other important characters to show comparison or contrast to his development. Start thinking about it and building ideas and references from the novel.  You will be writing this Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

3. F451 and "The Tiger"Paragraph to be written on Monday: Bradbury chose to use William Blake's poem for his title for Part 3 of his novel. How does the imagery, the symbols, and theme of Blake's poem illuminate Part Three of F451? 

The poem explores a spiritual and moral problem: the tiger is both beautiful and destructive, made from the "forges" or fire of the creator, and becomes a symbol for the presence of evil-destruction in the world, but also of purification- fire). Only a powerful being, an artist, could create and destroy so well.  How does the presence of both goodness and evil, and of destruction and purification, help us understand Part Three of Fahrenheit 451? You will not have notes for the in-class writing of the paragraph, so develop your ideas over the weekend.