ENGLISH - 1st trimester – Day 32
Shortened day – Homecoming Pep Assembly - 2013
1. Number a paper 1-20 (for today’s vocabulary test)
1. Using your Literary Terms packet, review the definitions of symbols and inferences
2. Write down what you think the cask in “The Cask of Amontillado” symbolized.
- Noted the symbols in “The Cask of Amontillado”
- What is the “Cask of Amontillado” symbolic of in the story?
i. What other “casks” can you think of?
ii. What is your “cask”
1. What are your goals? Dreams? What are you willing to risk in order to get it?
2. What if you find out that, like the Amontillado, your dream doesn’t exist? What if it will cost you your life to get it?
iii. What is Poe trying to warn you about?
iv. What does Fortunato’s death suggest about our own focused intents?
v. Fortunato’s PRIDE/EGO is his ultimate downfall.
vi. What are other downfalls that people initially think are strengths?
- Find your poster and hang it with tape on the string.
- Using the Symbolism overhead, review definition of symbol and how symbols play into literature.
ENGLISH homework:
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