October 23, 2017 - October 27, 2017 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English

Monday, October 23rd: 
Work on the Vocabulary Packet for The Cask of Amontillado 
 Read The Cask of Amontillado 
Reading log

Page 175 – The Cask of Amontillado

Milan updated us on the story.

The Narrator has told Fortunato that he has bought a cask of very expensive wine called Amontillado. It is during Mardi Gras, when that kind of wine is hard to come by. The Narrator HATES Fortunato!!!! Do we know why the Narrator hates Fortunato? No! The only thing we know is that the Narrator says that he has endured a thousand insults at the hand of Fortunato and he cannot bear it any longer. Is the Narrator reliable? No, he is a little crazy.

The Narrator wants revenge and the prediction is that someone is going to die!!!!

Why do you think the Narrator told Fortunato the story about the Amontillado?

What do we know about Fortunato?

He is a man to be respected.

He loves wine. He is a connoisseur of wine!

Who is Luchesi? He is the arch nemesis of Fortunato! They are rivals in their knowledge of wine!!!!

Finished reading the short story!

Go over tomorrow~

Tuesday, October 24th: 
The Cask of Amontillado vocabulary, grammar, and literary packet:
Went over the vocabulary:

Absconded: past participle of abscond which means to run away and hide.

Bianca: After Amy got into an argument with her mom, she absconded from the situation.

Alejanda: My friend had absconded from her family for two days.

Obstinate: Stubborn; to stand against

Alejandra: I am very obstinate when it comes to racism.

Jose: My ex-best friend said I was really obstinate which is why we are not best friends any  more.

Jose is very obstinate when it comes to eating in Ms. Bridges’ class.

Gesticulation: a motion having to do with the hands to add force to a speech.

Bianca: The director told Oliver to use more gesticulation when speaking as the character.

Julian: My dad uses a lot of gesticulation when he scolds me.

Melanie: The poet uses gesticulation to add meaning to the words.

Crypt: a burial chamber, usually under the floor of a church.
Diego read the definition of crypt.

Bianca: Florence went to jail for kidnapping a child and holding him hostage in a crypt.

Salamata: Last week my mom and I discovered a crypt under the church.

Trenton: I absconded from the crypt where he held me hostage.

Jestice: I buried my grandma in a crypt.

Circumscribing: to limit, to restrict the action of.

Bianca: I circumscribed my kids from playing too many video games because I am worried about their health.

Trenton: The police started to circumscribe the man’s movements as they arrested him.

Alejandra: My mother is circumscribing my activities every time I want to hang out with my friends outside of Highland Park.

Endeavored: tried or tried to do something.

Jestice – read the definition

Jasmine: My brother endeavored to do his homework.

Bianca: Billy endeavored very hard to raise money for the school; he raised $24, 000 more than he needed.

Lisbeth: All babies endeavor to walk when they learn how to stand.

Exercise 2: Writing Sentences in an Ornate Style:

Find the original sentences in the short story The Cask of Amontillado 
"I put up with Fortunato's many injuries, but I was determined to revenge myself when he dared to insult me. 

1.     The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.  Lizbeth – bonus points!
FFinally, we reached the bottom of the stairs. 

2.     We came at length to the foot of the descent and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs. – Julian
"" I didn't want to frighten you, but you should be careful!"

3.     “True – true,” I replied; “and indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily – but you should use all proper caution.” – Lizbet
""A drink of this medoc will warm us up!"
"   “A draft of this medoc will defend us from the damps!”

Tomorrow finish the packet.
Act out the scenes from the story
Do a kahoot as a review! 

Wednesday, October 25th: 

You are going to turn in your packet when you take the test on The Cask of Amontillado!!!!

Please get out your packet and your book. Please turn to page 238 in the packet and finish #5 in Exercise 2:

 5. We could not see the back wall of the recess by the weak light of Fortunato’s torch.

Hint: pages 178

“It was in vain that Fortunato, uplifting his dull torch, endeavored to pry into the depths of the recess.

You are going to turn in your packet when you take the test on The Cask of Amontillado!!!!

Verbal Irony: when someone says something he or she doesn’t mean.

Milan and Julian demonstrate verbal irony. The difference between verbal irony and sarcasm is with sarcasm you want the person to know you are being snarky. With sarcasm the person wants the other person to feel silly or dumb or hurt. With verbal  irony you do not let the person know you don’t mean what you are saying.

Situational Irony: when a scene has an unexpected outcome. When the audience expects the scene or the play to turn out a certain way, but it turns out in a completely different way than the audience expected.

Dramatic Irony:

Melanie, Trenton, Bianca – when the audience and the other characters know something that another character doesn’t know.

Bianca gives an example of dramatic irony from a film entitled “Streets”. A girl is talking to a boy whose brother has just been shot. It turns out that she used to talk to the dead brother, but the boy doesn’t know that.

3. Dramatic irony:  Montresor means it when he says his family motto – No one attacks me without being attacked. However, Fortunato doesn’t realize he is about to be attacked!!!!

4. Verbal Irony: Montresor doesn’t care about Fortunato; in fact, he intends to kill him!!!!!  Montresor is pretending to care so that Fortunato won’t suspect his true motive – which is murder!!!!!

5. Verbal Irony: Montresor is saying things that would suggest he cares about Fortunato. But in fact, as he is saying to Fortunato, “Let me first render you all the little attentions in my power”,  Montresor is actually killing him!

Thursday, October 26th: 
Go over The Cask of Amontillado vocabulary, grammar, and literary packet:

Heightened Style:

Bianca, David, Jestice

Syntax is how words are put together to make a sentence.

Heightened Style uses unusual words, similes and metaphors, complicated syntax.

Heightened Style:

It was about dusk, one evening  during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend.

Plain style of the same sentence:

I met my friend just before nightfall during the carnival season.

Here are some features of  heightened style:

1.     Words of many syllables, poetic, or uncommon

2.     Allusions to historical or literary persons.

3.     A formal tone

4.     Figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors

Jestice, David, Bianca

At the end of the crypt, there was another crypt that was smaller.

Bianca, David:

Skeletons were laying against the wall to the vaulted ceiling, similar to the catacombs of Paris.

Bianca:

Three sides of the crypt were still “ornamented” in this fashion.

Alejandra:

Against the fourth wall, a huge pile of bones had fallen down, forming a huge mound of bones.

Diego, Bianca:

Because the bones had fallen, we could see a small room in the fourth wall. The smaller room was four feet in depth, three feet in width, and about six or seven feet in height.

The smaller room did not seem to have been built for any specific reason. It was just the space between two huge columns to support the ceiling of the crypt and the wall of solid granite.

Unusual Words:

Lizbeth:

Promiscuous

Lizbeth:

Circumscribed

Bianca:

Interval

Diego:

Especial

David:

Ornamented

Alejandra:

Constructed

Bianca:

Merely

Allusions to Historical Periods:

David:

Paris catacombs

Figures of Speech:

Cierra:

Its walls had been ornamented with human remains.

For homework:

Reader’s Response

“Revising Two Paragraphs”:

Please rewrite it on a separate sheet of paper and staple it to the packet.

The packet will be due when you take the test!!!!!

Played “Kahoots” – The Cask of Amontillado”

Class Notes for November 6th; Essay Format for "The Cask of Amontillado"

From the beginning we know that Montresor plans revenge on Fortunato, however, we never really  know why he hates Fortunato so much – aside from the insults he supposedly has given him. It is during Carnival, a time of great celebration and gayety, that Montresor decides to lure Fortunato by the promise of amontillado into the catacombs to kill him.

The name of the narrator is Montresor; Mon tre sor  sounds a bit like “monster”.

In the first paragraph, please include:

The title of the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and the name of the author, Edgar Allen Poe.

A brief synopsis of the story – no more than three or four lines.

The thesis statement so that we know what your essay is going to be about.

A reference to Poe’s use of irony, setting, and the unreliable narrator to create the mood of “The Cask of Amontillado”.  Example: Poe’s use of irony, the eerie setting and Montresor’s unreliability as a narrator helps to create the gothic dark mood of his “The Cask of Amontillado”.

In the second paragraph, or the first body paragraph, please include:

A thesis statement so that the reader knows what the paragraph is about.

If you are discussing irony, be sure to develop the thesis of Poe’s use of irony.

Give specific examples of irony from the story either through quotation or by paraphrasing.

Then explain or discuss the quotation or the paraphrase to show how it is ironic.

Example: Poe uses situational irony from the very beginning of the short story, from the title – the word casket derives from the word cask – to the setting – Carnival is a time of gayety and not one normally associated with a murder – and the name of the victim, Fortunato, who is clearly not fortunate.

If you want to do more paragraphs on the various ironies Poe uses, you may; you might do one paragraph on the many examples of verbal irony:

Examples of verbal irony:

Montresor tell Fortunato that they must go back for Fortunato is sick and he cannot be responsible if anything happens to him.

Montresor “implores Fortunato to turn back as they descend deeper into the catacombs.

There are many, many more examples of verbal irony in “The Cask of Amontillado.”

Please mention briefly the examples of dramatic irony.

Examples:

Fortunato says that he will not die of a cough, which is true, he won’t die from a cough.

Montresor tells Fortunato the family’s Latin motto, which is "No one attacks me without punishment. Dramatic irony is displayed because Fortunato fails to understand  how Montresor intends to apply that motto to him. 

Montresor pulls out a trowel, a mason's tool, and tells Fortunato that he is a member of  the Masons, a secretive and exclusive organization; Fortunato, unaware of Montresor's true intentions toward him, fails to grasp the sick joke. 

In the final paragraph, briefly go over the main points in your essay, and then write your concluding thought. 

Do not include new information in your final paragraph. 

IRONY CHART FOR THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

IRONY CHART for “The Cask of Amontillado”

Situational Irony:

1. The title itself - "The Cask of Amontillado". A cask is a barrel of wine but it is also the root word for casket.

2. Setting: The story takes place during Carnival, which is supposed to be a time of great happiness and joy and celebration, not murder.

3. Fortunato is  dressed in motley, which is how a clown or a court jester dresses.

4. The name, Fortunato,  is ironic because the name means fortunate and clearly, Fortunato is not.

Look for three more examples of situational irony:

Verbal Irony: When a character says one thing but means the opposite.  It is different from sarcasm because in verbal irony, the speaker DOES NOT WANT the listener to know he is not telling how he really feels or what his intentions are. 

Look for three examples of verbal irony.

Dramatic: When a character does not know something in the story but other characters and the audience know.

Look for three example of dramatic irony. 

October 28, 2015 The Cask of Amontillado Notes

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

CASK is a barrel.

AMONTILLADO is a very fine Spanish wine.

Catacomb: is an underground place where wine and bodies are buried.

Carnival: Mardi Gras. We celebrate Mardi Gras in February or March. It is usually the five days leading up to  the beginning of Lent.  Lent begins forty days before Easter. During Lent the devoted give up something they love in order to experience the suffering Christ endured during the crucifixion.

During Mardi Gras – WE PARTAY!!!!!!!!!!!

During Mardi Gras we wear masks and we SINNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We drink and we dance and we smoke and we eat too much, and we kiss random people.

Fortunato is a man at whom the narrator is mad.

Injuries: bruises, pain, suffering

Borne: to endure, to suffer, to put up with

Ventured upon insult: Fortunato began to insult the narrator.

Utter: to say a word

Utterance: the things you say.

The narrator never uttered a word of a threat to Fortunato.

Definitiveness: definitely

Avenge: payback

Precluded: action taken before hand to prevent something from occurring.

Redress: to right a wrong

Unredressed: to not be avenged.

Redresser: someone who rights a wrong.

Impunity: without punishment; to get away with something and not get punished for it.

Retribution: punishment; the act that avenges the wrong committed against another.

Fortunato: he  prides himself on his connoisseurship in wine.

The narrator didn’t care how long it took to take revenge on Fortunato

As long as he did not get punished.

If the redresser gets punished then the wrong still remains unpunished.

It remains unpunished if the punisher (the avenger) does not make the wrongdoer feels (realize) the same amount of pain as he did when he was hurt.

Quack: a rip-off artist; a fraud

Luchesi: a rival with Fortunato in his knowledge of fine wines.

The name of the narrator and his family is the Montresors. Montresor is very similar to the word monster. 

Orbs: round spheres or globes. It refers to Fortunato’s eyes.

Rheumy: watery discharge

Intoxication: a state of drunkenness.

“My poor friend”  Montresor calling him “my poor friend” would suggest sympathy or friendliness.  Do you think Montresor, the narrator, likes him?  What kind of irony might this be – saying something that might not reflect how you’re really feeling?

Puns and Irony: A bricklayer is not always a Mason. 

Mason: a secret organization open only to Christian men. It is very exclusive and not open to everyone who  applies for admission. Women are are not allowed in the Masons. 

Mason: also a brick layer.

A trowel: a tiny hand shovel used by masons to lay brick and mortar.

The Unreliable Narrator:

The narrator is unreliable. This technique is used a lot by Poe.

Can we trust the narrator, Montresor, in “The Cask of Amontillado”?

Going beyond the story: 

There are a few clues that hint at the reasons Montresor hates Fortunato. They are:

Montresor: “You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as I once was. You are a man to be missed.”

What is implied  when he says he was once admired and respected?

“You will become sick and I cannot be held responsible.”

Why is it important that he not be held responsible for Fortunato’s ill health?

“The Montresors were a great and numerous family.”

What do you think happened to his family?
"You? A mason? Impossible!" 
Why would Fortunato expressed incredulity at Montresor being a member of the exclusive and secretive Masons?

 Assignment: 

Write down a brief story, description or scenario explaining Montresor’s hatred for Forunato.  Use the limited information given or implied by Montresor to explain what possibly may have happened.

Marina, Anna, Sergey: Fortunato continually put Montresor and his family down for many years.

Why would Fortunato express incredulity at Montresor being a mason?

Fortunato: “You? Impossible! You’re a mason?”

What do you think happened in the past to Montresor and his family?

Vocabulary: 

Crypt: an underground vault where dead people are buried.

Recess: a shallow closet or depression in a wall without a door.

Explain the visual pun Montresor does when he holds up a trowel to Fortunato’s question,”Are you a mason?”  Why is this ironic?

Puns: 

What’s a pun? It is a play on words. Example:  That was very punny!

A penny saved is a penny earned.  A benny shaved is a benny urned.

Why cantalope with me? Because the celery won’t lettuce.

Assignment: 

 Draw a picture of the crypt to which Montresor leads Fortunato. (The description is on page 177.)

Vocabulary: 

From one of these (iron staples) depended a short chain, from the other (chain) a padlock.  The word “depend” comes from the Latin word for “hang down.”

Fetter: to chain up or to tie.

Assignment: 

Read the story from page 178, “He is an ignoramus…” all the way to the end of the story.  While one of you reads the story, the other two people in the group will act it out.