Bellringer and SOTW Practice
• If you were a detective investigating a crime, what type of
details would you want to focus on as you investigate?
Develop a specific list of details such as “conversations the
perp had with the victim,” or “a timeline of the perp’s
locations the night of the crime.” Once you have your list,
explain which details are the most important to an
investigation. In this explanation, write at least two complex
sentences using your AAAWWUBBIS words.
The Catacombs of Paris
“The Cask of Amontillado”
by Edgar Allan Poe
• Read like an investigator.
• Annotate the details that would be
important to an investigator solving a
crime. Use your journal entry as a
guide.
• Make marginal notes as you read and
mark passages that are unclear.
• Links:
• Audio and Text
• Text
Homework Assignment
• 1) Montresor tells us, “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed whn
the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.” In your own words, explain what this
means.
• 2) Fortunato, who has been out drinking and enjoying Carnival, is wearing a clown’s hat. Symbolically, why is this an
interesting- and appropriate- costume choice by the writer, Poe?
• 3) To whom, do you suppose, is Montresor telling this story? Upon what evidence do you base your assumption? Use
textual evidence, correctly embedded, to support your answer.
• 4) Name three of the many clever things Montresor does to lure Fortunato into his trap. Use textual evidence, correctly
embedded, to support your answer.
• 5) Poe uses several elements of foreshadowing. Write down (or paraphrase) two lines that foreshadow the grisly event
at the end of the tale.
• 6) Is Montresor a reliable or unreliable narrator? Use textual evidence, correctly embedded, to support your answer.
• 7) Montresor acts ad judge, jury, and executioner of Fortunato. Is there any crime/offense that Fortunato could have
unwittingly committed that would make Montresor’s rage seem reasonable to you? Do you think individuals are ever
justified in taking justice into their own hands? Explain your thoughts.
BELLRINGER DAY 2
• Please have your completed homework on your desk. I will
come around and collect it. Also, have a paper set up for
Cornell Notes. Title it “Irony and Foreshadowing.”
• In your writer’s journal, describe the following elements
from “Cask of Amontillado.” Be sure to use your
AAAWWUBBIS words and complex sentences.
• Elements?
• Motive
• Conflict
• Cause of Death