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Technology is advancing at a faster rate than ever before in history. What

technological advancements would you like to see in your lifetime? List and
describe at least three ideas.
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Keep your ideas in mind as we watch a short video clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuKvWEENrpc

After the Clip

Write at least five lines in response to the technology featured in the video
clip.
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As you read and re-read the text, answer the following questions:
1. What unusual qualities and appliances does the house have?

2. What were the five spots on the paint?

3. What can you infer happened to the people?

4. What are some things the house has been protecting itself from? Be specific

5. Why is the dog very thin and covered in sores?

6. What happens to the dogs remains?How does this make you feel?

7. What can you infer the family usually does at 2:35?

8. What did the children usually do at 4:30?

9. What is the name of the family that lived in the house?

10. What are some things the house does to try to save itself?

11. What was the last voice to die saying?

12. Allusion: Explain the significance of this Biblical allusion: "There,downtubes

whichfedintothecellar,itwasdroppedintothesighingventofanincinerator
whichsatlikeevilBaalinadarkcorner."

Howiseachofthesepassagessignificant?Bepreparedtodiscusseach.
The opening line: In the living room the voice-clock sang, Ticktock,seven
o'clock,timetogetup,timetogetup,seveno'clock!as if it were afraid that nobody
would.

The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing,
attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion
continued senselessly, uselessly.

The nursery floor was woven to resemble a crisp, cereal meadow. Over this ran
aluminum roaches and iron crickets, and in the hot still air butterflies of delicate red
tissue wavered among the sharp aroma of animal spoors!

And the voices wailed Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen
voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone.

The concluding line: Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over again and
again, even as the sun rose to shine upon the heaped rubble and steam: "Today is
August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is..."

After reading this story, do you believe that technology has a positive, negative, or
neutral impact on our society? How does Ray Bradburys warning relate to us
today? Use evidence from the text to discuss your response.
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Topic Sentence: Restating the prompt is the easiest way to do this. Use the words

of the prompt to form a topic sentence. It may seem like cheating, but it isnt.

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(E): Explain by further developing your topic sentence and listing your 3 reasons or
examples.

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X1: __________,(X1): Te t Evidence #1:

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X 2__________, (X2): Te t Evidence #2

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X 3__________, (X3): Te t Evidence #3

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(I): Impact Statement: An impact statement is the So What? of your paragraph. It
asks for you to conclude the writing by pulling together the big ideas and wrapping up
the paragraph.

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