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Objective
Bellwork
Classwork
Closure
Monday
Finding themes in Poe’s
works
What do you think
accounts for the nature of
The Black Cat’s narrator?
-Discussion about the
nature of the narrator, and
HW Qs
-Make a Venn diagram on
the narrators we have met
so far.
Exit slips: Give 1 similarity
and one difference in the
narrators so far.
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works
What are your thoughts
on the narrator of the
story?
-Black Cat, Cask quiz
In groups, students will
create a production plan
for the “tell Tale Heart”
play
(due Friday/presented)
Exit slips: Qs about the
production?
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Finding themes in Poe’s
works
How did your group
choose the name of your
production co?
Working on production
plan
Exit slips: Who is playing
the old man in your play?
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works
What is your fave part of
the production plan/why?
Presentations
Exit slips: Which
production was your fave
(not your own) and why?
Homework:
GUTS due Friday(quiz)
Euphony
Felicity
Gossamer
Horticulturist
Imbued
Literary terms: Simile, metaphor,
alliteration, imagery, mood
Standard
Read “The Tell-Tale Heart” journal
due Tuesday- Write on your
responses to the characters, the
plot, as well as a summary, in your
own words.
Tuesday
GUTS due Friday(quiz)
Wednesday
GUTS due Friday(quiz)
Thursday
GUTS due Friday(quiz)
Read “The Fall of the House of
Usher,” Questions due Monday(as a
group)
As you read the story, notice the
details Poe gives about the setting
and complete the following.
1.
“During the whole of a dull,
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_______________________,
and soundless day in the
___________________ of the
year…” (p. 152)
2. “I looked upon the scene before
me- ….- with an utter
_____________________.” (p.
152)
3. “Nevertheless, in this mansion
of gloom I now proposed to
myself a sojourn of weeks. Its
proprietor, Roderick Usher, had
been one of my boon
______________________
in boyhood; but many years have
elapsed since our last meeting.” (p.
152)
4. How does the narrator hear
from Roderick? (p. 154)
5. “The writer spoke of acute
bodily illness – of a
__________________________
_ which oppressed him.” (p.
154)
6. What two things do the
peasantry think the term
“House of Usher” refer to? (p.
154)
7. Describe the room that Roderick
Usher is staying in. Capture
gothic elements here! (p. 154)
8. “Surely, man had never before
so terribly
_______________________ , in
so brief a period, as had
Roderick Usher….a
______________________ of
complexion, an eye large, liquid,
and
__________________________
____ beyond comparison; lips
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somewhat thin and very
______________________.” (p.
155)
9. The narrator is struck by
Roderick’s excessive nervous
agitation. However, he had
been
prepared for
something like this. What had
prepared him? (p. 216)
10. “His action was alternately
____________________ and
___________________.” (p.
156)
11. Roderick describes his illness to
the narrator. What are some of
the things he is bothered by?
(Name at least 3.) (p. 156)
12. “He was enchanted by certain
superstitious impressions in
regard to the _____________
he tenanted, and whence, for many
years, he had never
____________________.” (p. 156)
13. Roderick says that the house
itself has “brought upon the
__________________ of his
existence.” (p. 156)
14. Who is Roderick’s only living
relative? (p. 157)
15. While they speak, this relative
walks through the room,
apparently unaware of the
narrator. The narrator
“regarded her with an utter
astonishment not unmingled
with ___________________.”
(p. 157)
16. Madeline’s long lasting illness
baffled her doctors. She
seemed to lose interest in life
and physically she would
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occasionally experience a
cataleptical seizure. What does
“cataleptical” mean? (p. 157)
The narrator has been
summoned here to help cheer
Roderick. However, after
spending time with Roderick, he
understood “the futility of all
attempt at cheering a mind
from which darkness…poured
forth upon all objects…of the
universe in one unceasing
radiation of
_____________________.” (p.
157)
To pass the time, what does
Roderick do? (Name at least 2
things.) (p. 157-158)
What mood is set in stanzas I-IV
of “The Haunted Palace”? In
stanzas V-VI? (p. 158-159)
What kinds of books did the
narrator and Roderick read? (p.
159)
When Madeline dies, what does
Roderick plan to do with the
body? Why? (p. 159-160)
Describe the vault in which the
narrator and Roderick place
Madeline’s coffin. (p. 160)
As they gaze on Madeline, the
narrator commented on her
resemblance to Roderick. What
does he tell the narrator? (p.
160)
After Madeline’s death, how did
Roderick change? (p. 160)
On the 7th or 8th night after
Madeline’s death, why couldn’t
the narrator sleep? (p. 161)
Roderick is up roaming the
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house and goes to the
narrator’s room. What does he
ask the narrator? (p. 161)
To pass the time and take their
minds off the storm, the
narrator begins to read to
Roderick. What is he reading?
(p. 162)
In the story that the narrator is
reading, Ethelred beats open a
wooden door. What does the
narrator hear in the house? (p.
162)
In the story that the narrator is
reading, the dragon shrieks
when Ethelred kills him. What
does the narrator hear in the
house? (p. 162-163)
How does Roderick react to
these sounds? (p. 163)
What does Roderick say is
causing the sounds in the
house? (p. 163)
How does Roderick die? (p.
164)
The narrator flees from the
house out into the storm. A
wild light appears behind him so
he turns to see what caused it.
What does he witness? (p. 164)
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Friday
GUTS due Friday(quiz)
Read “The Fall of the House of
Usher,” Questions due Monday
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Finding themes in Poe’s
works
Know and use powerful
vocabulary
Qs on GUTS?
-Guts quiz
-Finish reading/Qs for “The
Fall of the House of Usher”
Exit slips: Qs on Usher so
far?
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