Tuesday, October 7, 2014

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 25

 

• TAKE open-notes POE TEST
• TO BE COLLECTED…On a separate piece of paper:
  • Write down a guess for each of the following questions:
  1. What do you think was General Zaroff’s “eye?”
  2. What do you think was Ulrich’s “eye?”
  3. Go to http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/tell-tale-heart.html  (“Tell-Tale Heart”)         
     • Re-read the 2 opening paragraphs to “The Tell-Tale Heart” and then…
     • Mimic POE’S STYLE of writing:
       • Re-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?
  4. In your textbook, read page 286 - “…wringing his hand” (STOP after reading the first paragraph on page 288…
     • Then, on your paper, summarize what has happened so far in the story.
  5. TURN YOUR WORK IN FOR CREDIT
• On a separate paper, number it 1-30.
  • Begin “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 TOMORROW

 

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-