Agenda 10-7-11

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Agenda 10-7-11

• Good Things
• Reviewing terms
• Finish Visualization chart
• Comprehension Worksheets The Tell-Tale Heart
• Work on your Newspaper article due MONDAY

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Review Matching

• A person telling the story who cant be trusted
• A character who we learn a lot about.
• A representation of a big, abstract idea through
  an object or phrase.
• A genre of writing that relies on fear to suck us
  in.
• The emotional feeling we have as a reader.
• Clues as to the end of the story.
• The manner in which the writer decides to present
  the story.
• A character we dont learn a lot about
• Going back to a time before the current story.

• Mood
• Tone
• Foreshadowing
• Flashback
• Unreliable Narrator
• Round Character
• Flat Character
• Horror Fiction
• Symbolism

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Answers

• A person telling the story who cant be trusted
• A character who we learn a lot about.
• A representation of a big, abstract idea through
  an object or phrase.
• A genre of writing that relies on fear to suck us
  in.
• The emotional feeling we have as a reader.
• Clues as to the end of the story.
• The manner in which the writer decides to present
  the story.
• A character we dont learn a lot about
• Going back to a time before the current story.

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Grammar D.O.L. page 633

• Participial phrases are verbs that end in ing
  and are used with an adjective or adverb to
  describe the action a noun or pronoun is doing in
  a sentence.
• These are used to show that more than one thing
  is happening at a time.
• Turn to page 633
• Write questions 2, 4, and 5 replacing the word in
  the parentheses with a participle phrase.

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D.O.L.

• Listen_____ _____________ he became convinced
  someone was there.
• Work____ _________________I overturned the bed.
• Smile____ _______________I welcomed the officers.

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The Tell-Tale Heart

• By Edgar Allen Poe

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Horror Fiction

• Fiction that plays on our emotions such as fear.
• Good horror makes us think there might be a
  POSSIBILITY of the horrible thing actually being
  true.
• Horror fiction contains a monster
• Someone or something threatening and/or impure
  (evil).
• If the monster is threatening, we feel scared.
• If the monster is impure, we feel disgusted.

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Themes of Horror fiction

• Most of the lessons have to do with discovering
  something about the possibility of bad human
  nature or evil experience.

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Edgar Allen Poe

• Edgar Allen Poe was the first American Horror
  Story author.
• Poes characters experienced much internal
  conflict, which made him a master of
  psychological suspense.

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Story Background

• In The Tell-Tale Heart the narrator insists he
  is not mad (crazy).
• As the story unfolds, we are exposed to the
  darkness of his mind and questionable sanity.

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Types of Characters

• Round characters
• Characters that have a lot of personality and
  development.
• Flat characters
• Characters that we do not know much about at all.

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Symbolism

• Use of a physical item represents a more
  important, abstract idea.
• A dark shadow may represent Death.
• For example, a wedding ring symbolizes the
  unending love of a couple. There is no beginning
  or end to the circle.

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Mood

• The atmosphere or emotional feeling of a story
• Mood is revealed through the description of the
  setting, the characters, and the dialogue.

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Tone

• The authors attitude toward the subject of their
  writing, such as positive/negative
  compassionate/uncaring.
• NOTE the MOOD is something that the reader
  feels. The TONE is something that the writer
  feels. Mr. T.W.

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Example of Tone

• Watch the following two clips. What is the tone
  of each clip? How does changing the way a story
  is presented change the tone?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vL4KQsPnz8Tw
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vfrUPnZMxr08

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Narrator

• Narrator The person telling us the story.
• First Person His own experience and recollection
  of events.
• Unreliable Narrator A narrator that doesn't know
  the truth, or doesn't have a realistic version of
  the true story.
• As readers, we know the truth or otherwise come
  to distrust the words of the narrator.
• As we read, determine whether this narrator is
  reliable or unreliable.
• As we read/listen write down clues to the
  narrator's sanity or insanity.

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Double Climax

• Two moments of intensity in a story.
• This happens when a character has more than one
  conflict to overcome.
• Conflict ? tension ? Climax
• What are two conflicts that the narrator has to
  overcome?
• What events cause the conflict for the narrator?

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Foreshadowing Flashback

• Foreshadowing A technique through which a writer
  provides clues about the outcome of a story
  before the end.

• Flashback A technique through which a writer
  stops the present flow of a story to tell about
  something that happened at an earlier date.

As we read the story, write down clues that
indicate how the story will end.
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Words To Know

• Acute
• Audacity
• Conceived
• Crevice
• Stifled
• Derision
• Hypocritical

• Stealthily
• Vex
• Vehemently
• Suavity
• Sagacity
• Waned

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Types of Context Clues

• Example look for punctuation and words such as
  like, or, for example.
• General Read the whole paragraph for the meaning
  of the word.
• Synonym/Compare using a word with the same
  meaning that you probably know to provide the
  meaning of the context word.
• Antonym/Contrast using a word with an opposite
  meaning you probably know to provide the meaning
  of the context word.
• Restatement the definition is provided in the
  sentence.

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Acute

• Above all was my sense of hearing acute. I hear
  all things in the heaven and the earth.
• Synonym precise
• Antonym dull
• Sharp/keen

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Audacity

• I welcomed them to their seats with a wild
  audacity and triumph.
• Synonym bravado
• Antonym wimpy
• Shameless daring or boldness

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Conceived

• It is impossible to say how first the idea
  entered my brain, but once conceived, it haunted
  me day and night.
• Synonym imagined
• Antonym forget
• Thought of

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vex

• It was not the old man who vexed me, but his
  Evil Eye.
• Synonym bother, bug, irritate
• Antonym ignored
• To annoy or disturb

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stifled

• it was a low, stifled sound that arises from
  the bottom of the soul.
• Synonym quiet, trapped
• Antonym loud
• Muffled

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Crevice

• I opened the lamp to reveal a tiny crevice
• Synonym space
• Antonym seal
• A crack

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Stealthily

• You can not imagine how stealthily and quietly I
  opened the lantern.
• Synonym sneaky
• Antonym clumsy
• Sinister cautiousness

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Vehemently

• I talked more quickly, more vehemently
• Synonym certain
• Antonym insecure
• With intense emotion

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Derision

• They were making a mockery of me! I was tired of
  such derision and joking!
• Synonym make fun of
• Antonym tolerate
• Ridicule

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Hypocritical

• I could bear their hypocritical smiles no
  longer!
• Synonym two-faced
• Antonym honest
• False or deceptive, pretending to be who you are
  not.

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Tell-Tale

• The girls smile was a tell-tale sign that she
  was lying to her mother.
• Synonym tattletale, a symbol of existence
• Antonym secrets
• Something that reveals or betrays what is not
  intended to be known

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Sagacity

• Never before had I known the power of my own
  sagacity, of my own wit.
• Synonym smart
• Antonym dumb
• Intelligent

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Suavity

• There entered three men, who introduced
  themselves with perfect suavity.
• Synonym cool
• Antonym uncool
• Smooth, refined

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Waned

• The night waned, but still I worked hastily and
  in silence.
• Synonym cease
• Antonym begin
• To approach the end of a period of time.

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Story Board

• Fold your paper so that you have 8 squares.
• Number each square. Leave room for writing and
  drawing
• We will stop and visualize what is happening in
  the scene.
• Below each drawing, write a sentence explaining
  what is happening in the frame.

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Copy these onto paper and Answer in complete
sentences

• What terrible thing does the narrator do?
• What drives the man to do the deed?
• Do you think the old-man knew he was going to
  die? How?
• Why does the man confess his crime to the police?
• What does the beating heart represent?
• What is meant by Tell-Tale Heart? In other
  words, what does the phrase symbolize?
• What effect does the repetition of phrases have
  on the mood of the story? with what
  cautionwith what foresightwith what
  dissimulation.
• Where is this man now that he can tell us the
  story?
• Is the narrator reliable? Why or why not? Use
  examples from the story to support your answer.
• Was the narrator sane and just pushed to the
  point of horrible behavior, or was he insane all
  along? Use evidence from the story to support
  your answer.