Monday, October 10, 2011

1^st trimester – Day 22

WARMUP:

1.      Pick up this week’s vocabulary words (Lesson 3 – edifice, ambidextrous, etc.)

2.      Using a dry-erase board and the story “The Cask of Amontillado” (p. 286), create a DETAILED plotline (including exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)

Reviewed “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe - Why did Montressor repeated offer to let Fortunato leave the catacomb? What did Montressor “dislike” about Fortunado? Etc.

COLLECTED: Follow up on “eye” – Write the opening paragraph of a POE-LIKE story that introduces the disagreeable characteristic that you have tracked/counted these past few days…

Reviewed definitions of: mood, irony, foreshadowing, imagery

More sentence structure unit – DWL: Lesson 5, 6

REMINDER: tomorrow: Open-notes quiz (10 questions) on Edgar Allan Poe (pgs. 276 – 285) – including “Letter to John Allan” and “Alone”

Homework:

Found and wrote out 8 examples (2 of each) of mood, irony, foreshadowing, imagery from “Cask of Amontillado” (pgs. 286 – 292 in textbook or The Cask of Amontillado) – DIRECTLY QUOTING THE TEXT for each example – TO BE COLLECTED

Open-notes quiz (10 questions) tomorrow on Edgar Allan Poe (pgs. 276 – 285) – including “Letter to John Allan” and “Alone”

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 3 – edifice, ambidextrous, etc.)