Edgar Allan Poe 2.2- PURPLE

Edgar Allan Poe 2.2- PURPLE

Do now: take out your “Pit and the Pendulum” study guide questions

Objectives:

• identify major plot points of “The Pit and the Pendulum”
• analyze which literary methods Poe uses to build suspense
• identify Poe’s meaning about human psychology

Agenda:

1. do now
2. In table groups: review the study guide questions
3. In table groups: discuss “how does Poe build suspense in the story?” (locate textual evidence to support and “What is the most basic human fear?”
4. In table groups: create an assertion statement connecting a literary device to a meaning about human psychology
5. Upload the study guide questions to Google Drive Student Folder (as a PDF)
6. Silently read “The Cask of Amontillado”
7. Review the Poe Creative short story assignment
8. Summarizer

HW: Finish reading “The Cask of Amontillado”