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Description:

FAHRENHEIT 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden. (© raybradbury.com; )

Booknotes:

• ClassicNote
  Major Themes, Vocabulary, Literary/Historical References, Summary, Characters, Context, Essay Topics, Study Questions
  http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/fahrenheit(GradeSaver; )
  
  
• PinkMonkey® Literature Notes
  Vocabulary, Literary/Historical References, Summary, Characters, Context, Essay Topics, Study Questions
  http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmFar45101.asp
  (PinkMonkey.com; )
  
  
• Novel Guide ® Literature Notes
  Summary, Character profiles, Theme & Metaphor Analysis, Quotes, Bibliography
  http://www.novelguide.com/fahrenheit451/index.html (novelguide.com; )
  
  
• SparkNote
  Summary, Characters, Context, Essay Topics, Study Questions
  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/ (SparkNotes.com; )

Curriculum Resources:

• Fahrenheit 451
  Teacher's Guide; About the book, About the author, Plot summary, Discussion & Comprehension questions, composition, activities, Notes on Censorship
  http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/guides/fahrenheit451.html (High School Teachers @ Random House; )
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451
  Novel Guide: Summary, Theme openers, Crosscurricular activities, Research assignments, Further reading, Related Reading
  http://www.mcdougallittell.com/disciplines/_lang_arts/litcons/f451/guide.cfm (McDougal Littell; )
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451 by Leif Danielson
  Lesson Plan
  http://teacher2b.com/literature/fahr451.htm (The English Teacher; )
  
  
• Contemporary Themes In Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
  Our goal here is to explore briefly these themes from Fahrenheit 451 and to suggest activities which would tie these themes to our modern society and to the students' lives.
  http://www.napanet.net/~aripub/f451.htm (The Hero's Journey in Education; )
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451 Resources
  Censorship, Novel Guides, Chapter Questions, Teacher Resources, Theme Analysis, Activities, Ray Bradbury Resources, Literary Devices, Book Discussion, Review, and Unique Collections
  http://wilmette.newtrier.k12.il.us/wilmette/wjhs/byrne/resources/f451.html (Wilmette Public Schools; )
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451 by by Ron Weightman
  Reader-Response Questions
  http://www.bell.k12.ca.us/BellHS/Fac.Staf/u-z/weightmanron/Free/451.html (Los Angeles Unified School District; )
  
  
• 103 reasons to love hate Fahrenheit 451 by C. Grimaldi
  http://www.njaet.org/OBHS/451.htm (Old Bridge High School; )
  
  
• Study Guide Questions for Fahrenheit 451
  http://www.krucli.com/fahrenheit_questions.htm (Mr. Krucli's English Home Page; )
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451 by Paul Schafer
  Content Questions, Discussion Questions
  http://sched.sbu.edu/faculty/pschafer/read512/451content.html (St. Bonaventure University; )
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451
  WebQuest
  http://www.fsu.edu/~CandI/ENGLISH/webquest2/enter451.htm (Florida State English Education WebQuests; )

Author Biography:

Ray Bradbury is one of the immortals among us, whose classic works of SF, fantasy and horror will be read a thousand years from now by our descendants and the inhabitants of the planets of a thousand distant stars.

Ray is a winner of the Nebula, Prometheus, O.Henry Memorial, Balrog, Bram Stoker, Benjamin Franklin, Aviation-Space Writers and World Fantasy (Lifetime Achievement) Awards. It's surely redundant to say he's a SFWA Grand Master. He has won the Gandalf Award for Lifetime Contribution to Fantasy (in 1980), and published his first story in 1941. A writer for TV, radio, theater and film, his credits including a script for the film Moby Dick. His show The Ray Bradbury Theatre is currently showing on the Sci-Fi Channel. Mel Gibson will star in and direct a new remake of Ray's classic Fahrenheit 451, slated for release in 1999. More... (Dragon*Con; )

Websites about Ray Bradbury:

• Audio Interview with Ray Bradbury by Don Swaim
  Two interviews from 1992 and 1993
  http://wiredforbooks.org/raybradbury/index.html (Wired for Books; )
  
  
• Ray Bradbury
  author website
  http://www.raybradbury.com/ (Ray Bradbury; )