ENGLISH - 1st trimester – Day 23
1. Check classwork:
o 6 examples of irony from Tell-Tale Heart (or a PINK sheet )
2. Using your Poe notes from yesterday, write down 7 questions that you think will be on tomorrow’s test.
o (This is the best way to study.)
3. REMINDER: 2 tests tomorrow…vocabulary and OPEN NOTES test on the life of Poe
4. Review answers to vocabulary sheet
5. Return homework
6. Watched an Encore introduction to Poe and a “The Tell-Tale Heart” animation and film
7. Having just watched “The Tell-Tale Heart,” I want the class to think about the “eye” in the story.
o The killer in the story didn’t actually hate the man’s eye…but rather, the eye stood for something the man hates.
· On a separate piece of paper:
o Write down a guess for each of the following questions:
§ What might the eye represent to the killer?
§ What does the character do because of the eye?
§ What is the “eye” in your life…that when you see it, you have strong, negative feelings?
ENGLISH homework:
Study for Friday’s vocabulary test
ADD to your Edgar Allan Poe notes: (pgs. 276 – 285) including “Letter to John Allan” and “Alone” for an open-notes test on Friday
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