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Fahrenheit 451 Book Giveaway & Kickoff!

SKYCTC QEP Book Club is sponsored by the SKYCTC QEP Committee. Their financial contribution provided for the purchase of copies of Fahrenheit 451 to be given away at our kickoff events.

Check out Ways to Participate in the SKYCTC QEP Book Club for the date and location for the book giveaway event on your campus.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Call Number: PS3503.R167 F3 1996
ISBN: 9781451673319
Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television family. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

Listen to Fahrenheit 451 on CD - you can borrow from the SKYCTC Library

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Read by)
Call Number: PS3503.R167 F35 2001
ISBN: 9780694526277
Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published over 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.

Fahrenheit 451 - the movie - you can borrow the DVD from the SKYCTC Library

Fahrenheit 451
Call Number: PN1997 .F26 2003
ISBN: 0783255357
Ray Bradbury’s best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important screen innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Julie Christie stars in the challenging dual role of Oskar Werner’s pleasure-seeking conformist wife, Linda, and his rebellious, book-collecting mistress, Clarisse. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.

Learn more about the SKYCTC QEP

What is a QEP?

QEP: Quality Enhancement Plan

Continual improvement

All colleges develop a project to enhance some aspect of student learning

What are the SKYCTC QEP goals?

To help transitional reading students become academically successful

To help students become better critical readers

To develop a literacy-rich campus culture

To learn more about the SKYCTC QEP visit the Advising for Reading Students webpage

Book Club selections through the years

Ways to Participate in the SKYCTC QEP Book Club

Book Giveaways

Main Campus: Building F | Conference Room | Monday, February 8 at 12:15pm

Franklin-Simpson Campus: LRC Room 233 | Monday, February 8 at 12:15pm

Glasgow Health Campus: LRC B-302 | Monday, February 22 at 12:15pm

Online Discussion

See directions in the box below on how to join the online discussion

Directions on how to join the Online Discussion

Select eCommunity

Type “book club” into the Organization Search box and click Go

Click on the SKYC_QEP_Book_Club link

Click on the Enroll button

Click on Submit

You are now enrolled in the SKYCTC QEP Book Club Online Discussion Board. In the future, when you click on eCommunity you will see the SKYCTC QEP Book Club listed under My Organizations.

As part of this eCommunity, you will receive emails about the new book selected each semester and the book club events on campus. You will also be able to participate in the online discussions, sharing your thoughts about the book and joining the conversation with your fellow students.

If you have any problems with enrolling or participating in the online discussion, please contact Kathryne LeFevre via email or by calling 270-901-4335.

SKYCTC QEP Book Club - Spring 2016 - Fahrenheit 451: Getting Started

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