Wednesday, October 8, 2014

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 26

 

Listening is the willingness to change.

 

Look over your 11 prefixes for 5 minutes…then…

 

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.

 

·         Looking at this week’s prefixes, create memory tricks for remembering any 5 of the 11 (you may NOT use “hypo”).

o   For example: hypo = under, beneath

§  The toothless hippo (hypo) found his dentures under the water.

 

·         FINISH “cloze” reading (handout 1- 30) of annotated version of first page of “The Cask of Amontillado” - see handout and pg. 286 in Literature book

o   TO BE COLLECTED

 

·         Read “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe (pgs. 286 – 292)

 

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:

 

• 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-