Wednesday, October 9, 2013

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 26

 

Listening is the willingness to change.

 

WARMUP: On a clean paper, draw a T-chart with 3 columns (labeled: prefix, meaning, example) and number it 1 - 11…then, from memory, try to fill in all the blanks.

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• This is what your test will look like Friday. The prefixes will not be in alphabetical order! You will be asked to fill in blanks.

 

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) – photograph it with iPad 

 

  

To be collected:

Answer the following questions about “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe

1. Why did Montressor repeatedly offer to let Fortunato leave the catacomb?
2. What did Montressor “dislike” about Fortunato?
3. Why did Montressor keep mentioning the niter?
4. Who was Luchesi and what was his profession?
5. Draw a picture of Montressor’s coat of arms (see pg. 289)
6. List the order of emotions that Fortunato experiences once chained to the wall. (starting on pg. 291) There are 8 total.
7. How does Poe show us that Fortunato is getting more drunk? List 2 examples.
8. Poe uses both Latin and Italian language in this story. Write down one example of each language from the story.
9. Take out your Literary Terms packet and review definitions of: mood, irony, foreshadowing, imagery
1. Write down 8 examples (2 of each) of mood, irony, foreshadowing, imagery from “Cask of Amontillado” (pgs. 286 – 292 in textbook or http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/amontillado.html ) – DIRECTLY QUOTING THE TEXT - WORD FOR WORD for each example – TO BE COLLECTED

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

• Finish “9 examples” assignment above
• 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-