Name______Hour______F451 Part II P.E.E.

Date______English 9

Your Task: Honor Code Level 2

Practice the Point Example Explanation (P.E.E) format to create a paragraph showing your understanding of an important idea or concept in Fahrenheit451 which will be assessed using the following rubric.

4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Content / -Meets all of the prompts requirements
-Stays fully focused on the topic
-Includes relevant information
-Provides main ideas and specific, elaborated details that move beyond the obvious / -Meets most of the prompt’s requirements
-Stays mostly focused
-Includes mostly relevant information
-Provides main ideas, but details are general or brief or obvious / -Meets some of the prompt’s requirements
-Addresses a broad topic OR focuses on a trivial point
-Provides sketchy information that may be list-like / -Meets few of the prompt’s requirements
-Severely digresses from the topic or is off topic
-Includes much irrelevant information
-Does not provide main ideas or does not support them
-Details may be repetitious

9:

Create 2 separate P.E.E. paragraphs using any 2 examples from your Burn Book to show your understanding of an important idea in Part II of Fahrenheit 451.Remember to address the big question of “SO WHAT?” –why does the author choose to present the character/symbol/image/ etc like this? What does it reveal about the larger ideas this book is about.

9+:

Create 1 P.E.E.E.E paragraph using 2 examples from THE SAME PAGE in your Burn Book to show your understanding of an important idea in Part II of Fahrenheit 451. Remember to address the big question of “SO WHAT?” –why does the author choose to present the character/symbol/image/ etc like this? What does it reveal about the larger ideas this book is about.

Use the examples on the reverse to help guide your writing.


Throughout the story, the author uses imagery to suggest destruction, first of the people, and then of their “monument to technology”, the house. At the end of the story, both are destroyed. The author uses a simile in the line “Deep freeze, armchair, film tapes, circuits, beds and all like skeletons thrown in a cluttered mound deep under”. In this line, the author first lists many conveniences associated with humans – armchairs, beds etc – and then, by comparing them to skeletons, shows how they have met their destruction, and finally lie abandoned to their disorder. It is ironic that the humans in the story tried so hard to manipulate and control their environment, yet in the final analysis, their legacy is reduced to a “cluttered mound” of chaos and destruction.

In the paragraph above, identify each of the elements of PEE (See Imagery notes for explanation).

  1. Circle the point
  2. Underline the example once
  3. Underline the explanation twice

Throughout the story, the author uses imagery to suggest destruction, first of the people, and then of their “monument to technology”, the house. At the end of the story, both are destroyed. The author uses a simile in the line “Deep freeze, armchair, film tapes, circuits, beds and all like skeletons thrown in a cluttered mound deep under”. In this line, the author first lists many conveniences associated with humans – armchairs, beds etc – and then, by comparing them to skeletons, shows how they have met their destruction, and finally lie abandoned to their disorder. It is ironic that the humans in the story tried so hard to manipulate and control their environment, yet in the final analysis, their legacy is reduced to a “cluttered mound” of chaos and destruction.

In the paragraph above, identify each of the elements of PEE (See Imagery notes for explanation).

  1. Circle the point
  2. Underline the example once
  3. Underline the explanation twice