The Devil and Tom Walker

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The Devil and Tom Walker

• By
• Washington Irving
• Presented
• By
• Mrs. Gana Harris

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Lesson Objective

• To analyze and respond to literary elements
• -third person omniscient point of view
  
• -characterization
• To read, comprehend, analyze, and critique
  
• a short story
• To develop work analysis skills, fluency,
  and systematic vocabulary
• To understand and apply written and oral
• language conventions

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General Objectives

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  tions/honengIII.htm

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Concept Map
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Specific Objectives

• District CurriculumGasconade County R-2 Schools

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The events in such stories are often unrealistic
or unlikely, however, they teach a lesson or
express a general truth about life.

• Characters tend to be stock character, embodying
  a single trait.

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Folk Tales

• Folk tales are stories of a particular culture,
  handed down orally from generation to generation.

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Cultural Attitudes

• This story reveals the cultural attitudes of New
  Englanders during the 1720s.
• Irving suggests these attitudes through
  descriptive details, the narrators comments, and
  dialogue, and leaves it up to the reader to make
  inferences or draw conclusions, based on these
  elements.
• For example, the colonists belief in the Devil
  and the reference to Native Americans as
  savages reveal cultural attitudes.

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Third-Person Omniscient Point of View

• An all-knowing narrator relates the events of the
  story.
• Stories are told using the perspective have the
  following characteristics
• a narrator who stands outside the
  action
• details about the thoughts and
  feelings of all
• the characters
• the narrators commentary about the
  events
• of the story

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Literary Elements

• Irving uses characterization to reveal the
  personality traits of his characters. In stories
  told using the third-person point of view,
  characterization is achieved in two primary ways
• Direct characterization
• the narrator tells the
  reader what
• the character is like
• Indirect characterization
• personality traits are
  revealed through
• the words, thoughts, and
  actions of the
• characters

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The Devil and Tom Walker
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Review

• 1. The Devil offers Tom _______________
• in exchange for his soul.
• 2. Toms name for the Devil is ___________
• 3. Tom finds __________in his wifes apron
• as it hangs from a tree.
• 4. Tom refuses to become a ______________
• as part of his deal with the Devil.
• 5. Tom attempts to protect himself from the
  Devil by
• always carrying the __________with him.

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Understanding Literary Stereotypes
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Journal Response

• Do you think that some people today sometimes
  become so concerned with acquiring money and
  power that they forget to be sympathetic and
  compassionate toward other people? Explain your
  answer.

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Recognizing Folk Tales

• Directions on the line under each passage,
  write stereotyped character, unlikely event,
  or lesson.
• 1. Tom shrunk back, but too late. He left his
  little Bible at the bottom of his coat pocket,
  and his big Bible on the desk buried under the
  mortgage he was about to foreclose never was
  sinner taken more unaware. _______________

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• There lived near this place a meager, miserly
  fellow, of the name of Tom Walker. He had a wife
  as miserly as himself they were so miserly that
  they even conspired to cheat each other.
• ___________________________________________
  __
• There was one condition in the deal between the
  Devil and Tom Walker which need not be
  mentioned, being generally understood in all
  cases where the Devil grants favors. . .
• ___________________________________________
  __
• Tom seized the check apron, but woeful sight!
  Found nothing but a heart and liver tied up in
  it!_________________________

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• Using Subordination
• Directions Underline the subordinate clauses in
  the following sentences.
• As he turned up the soil unconsciously, his staff
  struck against something hard.
• The old stories add that the Devil presided at
  the hiding of the money and took it under his
  guardianship, but this it is well known he always
  does with buried treasure, particularly when it
  has been ill-gotten.
• When the clerks turned to look for their boss, he
  had disappeared moreover, he never returned to
  foreclose the mortgage.

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He shrugged his shoulders as he looked at the
signs of a fierce clapperclawing.5. If he
really did take such a precaution, it was totally
superfluous.
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Scoring Guide

• The folk tale has a clear introduction, body, and
  conclusion.It contains a strong controlling idea
• The stock characters are used in the story.
• Third person omniscient point of view is used.
• The language is precise and vivid.
• Sentences are strong, have clarity and are varied
  in structure
• Effective use of literary and stylistic
  techniques
• The writer is in control of the task and clearly
  demonstrates a focused awareness of audience and
  purpose.
• There are very few errors in grammar/usage,
  punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

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Lesson Summary
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Literature The American Experience Upper
Saddle River, New JerseyPrentice Hall, Inc
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