Edgar Allan Poe 2.4

Do now: What is a one-sentence synopsis of your story?

Objectives:

• use class time effectively 
• work effectively as a group to draft a short story
• identify Poe's literary techniques and include them in a short story

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Review assignment/task/group 

3. Group work: 

           1) brainstorming sheet, 

           2) draft story, 

           3) edit story

4. Summarizer

HW: Draft of full story due for editing PURPLE: MONDAY, GREEN: TUESDAY

Edgar Allan Poe 2.3

Do Now:  It has been 50 years since the narrator buried Fortunato alive. Why might the narrator be telling his story now?

Objectives:

• identify the use of suspense, imagery, and unreliable narration in Poe's story
• brainstorm topics for creative writing

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) Table groups:
Discussion: "The Cask of Amontillado" uses a first-person narrator (a narrator      that is a character in the story), and, sometimes, first-person narrators can be unreliable.

• How reliable or unreliable do you regard the narrator?

• Are there any ways that the narrator might be manipulating the truth?
• How would you describe the narrator's attitude toward himself and his actions?

3) Introduce the Poe short story assignment

4) Brainstorm topics/complete graphic organizer

5) If time, begin drafting

5) Summarizer:

HW: Complete graphic organizer

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”

Edgar Allan Poe 2.1- GREEN

Do Now: Which of the various tortures is most horrifying- darkness, rats, falling down well, pendulum? Explain your reasoning.

Objectives:

• identify elements of suspense
• analyze Poe's use of human psychology to produce horror

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) In Pairs: complete study guide questions

3) Review answers

4) In table groups: complete an assertion statement connecting a method to a meaning about human psychology

4) Summarizer: What is the most basic human fear? Explain

HW: Read "Cask of Amontillado" for Thursday

Edgar Allan Poe 2.1

Edgar Allan Poe 2.1

Do Now: what would be the worst torture: trapped in darkness, covered in rats, falling down a well (but not drowning), or strapped to a table while a knife is slowly lowered down?

Objectives:

• identify elements of suspense
• analyze Poe's use of human psychology to produce horror

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Active listening: listen to the audiobook of “The Pit and the Pendulum”
3. In table groups: answer the “Pit and the Pendulum study guide questions”
4. Summarizer

HW: Finish the study guide questions for homework

Edgar Allan Poe 1.2

Edgar Allan Poe 1.2

Do Now: What are the seven deadly sins?  What other archetypal things come in 7s (example: 7 days of the week)?

Objectives:

• Identify Poe's use of color imagery, personification, and symbolism in the story
• Use a visual medium to demonstrate reading comprehension
• Connect one of Poe's methods to a central meaning of the work

Agenda:

1. Do Now

2. MAP: Using half a sheet of easel paper, draw a map of the masquerade ball.  Hint: be sure to reread the descriptions of the rooms to get the colors, shape, windows, and objects correct.

3. In each room on your map, write a word or two that is associated with that color.

4. Consider these questions: Why does Poe have 7 rooms for the Masquerade ball?  What is the importance of the number 7?  What is the symbolism of the clock?

5. ASSERTION STATEMENT: In one sentence assertion statement, connect one literary device to  Poe’s central message is in this short story.

Template: Poe's use of [literary device] reveals [central message].

Summarizer: How did drawing the map of the rooms help unlock Poe's meaning?

HW: Read "Pit and the Pendulum” for TUESDAY (GREEN)

Edgar Allan Poe 1.1

Do Now: What is the scariest ghost story you've ever heard?

Objectives:

• Define Allegory, Symbolism, Color Imagery, Personification, and Gothic
• Use close reading to identify gothic elements in a short story

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) Submitting essay via google forms

3) Download “Edgar Allan Poe Literary Terms”

4) Define literary terms

5) Download “Edgar Allan Poe Stories”

6) Listen to audiobook for “masque of the red death”

7) Summarizer: What do you think so far?

HW: Finish reading "Masque of the Red Death"-- annotate the 4th paragraph for: number of rooms, order of rooms, color of rooms, shape of rooms, if there are any additional objects in the rooms.