6th hour: All About Ray Bradbury by Hunter Jackson https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb Author Study en-us 2022-09-15 15:27:52 UTC 2026-01-12 04:54:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Izzy https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328157177 In 1979, Bradbury hosted and cowrote an ABC news special on space exploration, “Infinite Horizons: Space Beyond Apollo,” for which he won an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.]]> 2022-10-05 19:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328157177 Alivia https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328158267 Ray Bradbury had a deep concern for the welfare and destiny of his fellow humans. ]]> 2022-10-05 19:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328158267 The Artist https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328159278 Not only was Bradbury highly creative with language—he was also an exceptional visual artist He would use the basement office as his studio, doodling, sketching, and painting. He especially loved to draw devil faces, pumpkins, cats, and monsters, and even painted a Halloween Tree]]> 2022-10-05 19:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328159278 Maggie https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328160954 During the 1960s, he became a frequent speaker at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and his award-winning articles on the Gemini and Apollo missions for Life magazine were read by millions.]]> 2022-10-05 19:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328160954 Kerry Brown https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328162334 The book Dandelion Wine was made in 1957, it is about "Vacation beginning with great promise for 12-year-old Douglas Spaulding. It’s 1928, and all the summer joys of Green Town, Illinois, are ready to be savored"  This book is one of his favorites.

]]> 2022-10-05 19:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328162334 Marissa https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328163410 During a career that spanned seventy-plus years, he wrote more than 400 short stories and nearly fifty books across a variety of genres. "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.”]]> 2022-10-05 19:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328163410 Brody, Joel, Alex, Rahsann https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328164390 Bradbury, the man of many words, stories, books and ideas offers some inspirational and practical advice to jump-start your daily writing practice. Here’s some of Ray’s tips. Start short. Don’t start out writing novels—they take too long—“write a hell of a lot of short stories,” he said.

]]> 2022-10-05 19:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328164390 RJ Leon https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328164743
The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere.
The collection was published in numerous editions by Ballantine Books. The 1955 hardcover and 1956 and 1962 softcover versions featured artwork by Joseph Mugnaini that was replaced in 1971 by an entirely different Bob Pepper illustration. It was again published in 1996, by Del Rey Books, a branch of Ballantine Books; the illustrations within were drawn by Mugnaini. In this edition there was a foreword written by Bradbury himself, called "May I Die Before My Voices" in Los Angeles, California, on April 24, 1996.

]]> 2022-10-05 19:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328164743 Anthony Bratko https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328165471 One of his books was A Sound Of Thunder. This Book was made in 1952 By Ray Bradbury. It is about A man who joins a hunting expedition to the past. In the year 2055, time travel has become a practical reality, and the company Time Safari Inc. offers wealthy adventurers the chance to travel back in time to hunt extinct species such as dinosaurs. A hunter named Eckels pays $10,000 to join a hunting party that will travel back 66 million years to the Late Cretaceous period, on a guided safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus rex. ]]> 2022-10-05 19:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328165471 Daisy romero https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328165663 Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.]]> 2022-10-05 19:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328165663 Amelia https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328165703 Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers and viewers to dream, think, and create "I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it."

]]> 2022-10-05 19:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328165703 Myles Walden https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328166746 This book was made in 1950,it is about a  colonization of mars opening with rocket's flaming heating up Ohio winter in january 1999 and closing with a family fishing trip to mars in october in 2026.]]> 2022-10-05 19:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328166746 Gavin K. gkilstrom https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328168730 Ray Bradbury Did a ton of work for the history of authors and writers. He mostly did Short Stories and Sci-Fi/ Horror. He was a big figure in the American history of authors and writers.]]> 2022-10-05 19:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328168730 Fahrenheit 451 - Aidan https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328168873 Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, Fahrenheit 451 presents an American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.]]> 2022-10-05 19:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328168873 https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328169006 1. "When people ask me where I get my ideas, I laugh. How strange—we are so busy looking out, to find ways and means, we forget to look in."

]]> 2022-10-05 19:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328169006 His Type of Technology https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328169291 In 1932, Bradbury received a toy dial typewriter for Christmas. Five years later, he bought his first real typewriter for $10. Despite his forecasts of some of the great technological developments of the 20th and 21st centuries, the typewriter remained one of the few innovations Bradbury was really comfortable with. In Fahrenheit 451 and a number of short stories, he predicted radiotelephone “ear thimbles”—what we today call Bluetooth headsets and EarPods—which he depicted as cacophonous, isolating, and socially disastrous.]]> 2022-10-05 19:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328169291 Important legacy https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328169704 one important legacy he left behind was that ,him As a writer and editor, he continues to explore how the lessons woven through Bradbury’s works are reflected in current events. His recent article, ]]> 2022-10-05 19:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328169704 https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328170245 2. Step away from your computer and expose yourself to new books often. There are numerous worlds to discover beyond your screen. I think this is important because it is telling us to get of electronics and go live a life in the outside world. ]]> 2022-10-05 19:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328170245 https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328170807 In 1932, Bradbury was captivated by the performance of Mr. Electrico, a carnival magician. At the end of the act, Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury and commanded, “Live Forever!” Bradbury later said, ”I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.”]]> 2022-10-05 19:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328170807 Izzy https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172251 He also had an asteroid, a moon crater, and Martian terrain features named in his honor. ]]> 2022-10-05 19:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172251 https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172385 3.  Then write about the former, and “kill” the later—also by writing about them. Do the same with your fears. I think this is important because he is saying that you should get over your fears and forget what will happen after. ]]> 2022-10-05 19:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172385 The Reader https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172662 Bradbury’s family ignited his love for reading at an early age. When he was four, his parents taught him how to read newspaper comics. A year later, on Christmas day, his Aunt Neva (short for Nevada) gave him his first book of fairytales, Once Upon a Time, and soon after, she started reading him the Oz books by L. Frank Baum.]]> 2022-10-05 19:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172662 https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172689 “Grandfather’s been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you’d find the big ridges of his thumbprint.”]]> 2022-10-05 19:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172689 Izzy https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172883 Decades later, in 2007, a digital copy of his novel The Martian Chronicles would make its own journey into space to the Red Planet, transported by the Phoenix Mars Lander. And on August 22, 2012, just ten weeks after Ray’s death, the rover Curiosity’s touchdown point on Mars was renamed “Bradbury Landing.”]]> 2022-10-05 19:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hjackson104/qfv3tvgz4xj883lb/wish/2328172883