Monday, October 20, 2014

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 33

 

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.

1. What other things in the story might be considered symbols?
2. What other “casks” can you think of?
3. What is your “cask”?

                                                              i.      What are your goals? Dreams? What are you willing to risk in order to get it?

                                                            ii.      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?

4. What is Poe trying to warn you about?
5. What does Fortunato’s death suggest about our own casks/focused intents?
6. Fortunato’s PRIDE/EGO is his ultimate downfall.

                                                              i.      What are other downfalls that people initially think are strengths?

3. GRADE 2 tests – vocabulary and “Cask of Amontillado”
4. PREVIEW the story on pages 333 – 338, “The Scarlet Ibis.”
5. Began reading the first half ONLY of “The Scarlet Ibis” pgs. 333 – 338 – paying special attention to the symbols - list 10 things that MIGHT BE SYMBOLS
6. Using the following format, write down 2 predictions about what you think will ultimately happen in “The Scarlet Ibis” (pg. 333) based on what you have read so far. Use this format:
1. Because the story says, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________, I predict __________________________________.

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

·         Finish #5 and 6 (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 = re-, retro-, se-, sub-, super-, trans-, un- (or uni-), un-, bas, cap (or capt), cred