ENGLISH - 1st trimester – Day 24
· Today’s warmups will be collected…
o You’ll need a copy of “Tell-Tale Heart” and your index card from the weekend.
· Re-read the 2 opening paragraphs to “The Tell-Tale Heart” (on center table) and then…
o Write the opening 2 paragraphs of a POE-LIKE story that introduces the disagreeable characteristic that you have tracked/counted these past 24 hours…PLEASE NOTE:
§ Poe does not use ANY violence when setting up his story. What does he do instead?
· Write a personal-journal-style paragraph about the following:
o Like all of us, Poe had unfortunate things happen in his life…abuse, poverty, death of loved ones, loss. And like all of us, he got to choose how he was going to deal with these things.
o Imagine a person who is unpleasant...
§ Do you ever consider someone’s unfortunate past before passing judgment on them?
§ Or do you simply follow your gut feeling about them in the moment?
· Pickup flashcards
o 11 prefixes...
§ hypo- ………pro-
· Read page 286-287 (“…wringing his hand.”) and discussed our understanding
· Finish: Number a paper 1-30.
o Completed “cloze” reading (handout 1- 30) of annotated version of first page of “The Cask of Amontillado” - see handout and pg. 286 in Literature book – TO BE COLLECTED
· Begin reading “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe (pgs. 286 – 292)
ENGLISH homework:
· Study for Friday’s fill-in-the blank Prefix test (the next 11 prefixes from “30-15-10” list) including the following prefixes from your sheet = hypo-, in-, inter-, mal-/male-, mis-, mono-, non-, ob-, omni-, preter-, pro-
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