Monday, October 31st:
Not here. A guest teacher will teach the class.
Tuesday, November 1st:
If you STILL have not turned in your animal research paper,
you may e-mail it to me at jkatbridge2004@gmail.com
or turn it into turnitin.com.
Briefly reviewed “The Cask of Amontillado” and finished
reading the story from page 178 to the end.
Write a brief summary of the story.
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.
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.
Fortunato continually put Montresor and his family down for many years.
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.
Wednesday, November 3rd:
Wednesday, November 3rd:
Your second AR book will be due on Friday, November 18th.
Please remember you need to write your reading log, which must have a minimum
of five individual entries with comments and predictions. You must also take
and pass the AR test on your book. (And remember the book must be an AR book,
which you can tell by the white label on the binder marked “AR”.)
Open the literature book to “The Cask of Amontillado” and
write a brief summary of the story.
Please explain how Montresor persuaded Fortunado to go with
him down into the crypt.
Turn in your brief summary of "The Cask of Amontillado".
Discussion of the plot, ironies, manipulations, characters,
etc. in the short story.
Tomorrow please bring the “The Cask of Amontillado” packet
and we will finish the packet in class.
Thursday, November 4th:
AR book check!
Remember:
Your second AR book, reading log (minimum of five entries) and AR test will be due on Friday, November 18th!
Thursday, November 4th:
AR book check!
Remember:
Your second AR book, reading log (minimum of five entries) and AR test will be due on Friday, November 18th!
Get out your “The Cask of Amontillado” packet
Montresor is the unreliable narrator.
Fortunado is the unlucky guy who dies.
Montresor kills him by bricking him up in a crypt.
The Cask of Amontillado
Dramatic Irony:
Dramatic Irony
occurs when the reader or audience knows something that a character does not know.
Verbal Irony:
Verbal irony occurs when the speaker says the opposite of
what s/he intends or means. However, the person to whom s/he is speaking does
not realize he is lying.
2.
Onyx: Fortunato does not realize that Montresor is planning
to kill him and he thinks they are having a good time.
Montresor and we the readers know that Montresor is going to
kill Fortunato, but Fortunato does not know he is about to die.
3.
Dramatic
Rachel: It is dramatic because Montresor tells Fortunato
that those who attack us will go unpunished. Fortunato does not understand that he is saying he is going
to kill him.
4.
Verbal
Because Montresor does not care about Fortunato’s health.
5.
Verbal
Because Montresor is lying to him about caring for his
health and comfort.
Applying Skills:
Fortunato continues insulting Montresor even after they go
into the crypt. Fortunato insists on going down into the crypt to get the
amontillado. Fortunato is drunk. Fortunato is a very bad judge of character for he trusts a man whom he has insulted. Fortunato is also naware of his own behavior and how it might cause someone like Montresor to seek revenge against him.
Reader’s Response:
Eli: We knew Montresor was going to kill Fortunato that
night when Montresor told the
servants “not to leave the house, knowing that that would insure they would leave.”
Sandy: We knew that tonight was the night Montresor had planned
on killing Fortunato because he kept getting Fortunato drunk.
Montresor stated at the beginning of the story that he was
going to kill him. He obviously
had planned on killing Fortunato during the Carnival season for he made sure
the servants would not be home.
For homework tonight:
Please do “For Heightened Style” and “Revising Two
Paragraphs”.
Friday, November 4th:
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Friday, November 4th:
Please bring your packet to class, which we will finish in
class today.
“The Cask of Amontillado” packet will be due on Monday when
you take the test.
“The Cask of Amontillado” reading logs will be due at the
time of the test.
On Monday there will be a test over “The Cask of
Amontillado”
On Tuesday we will meet in 427 to take the CAASPP test, also
known as the Smart and Balance test, which will test your reading comprehension
and vocabulary.
On Friday, November 18th your AR reading log (a
minimum of five entries per reading life) and your AR test will be due.
Open your book to “The Cask of Amontillado”, page 175. Turn
to exercise 2, “Writing in an Ornate Style”.
Carolina found the first quotation from “The Cask of
Amontillado”. It is the first line of the story!
Jasmin found the second one; page 176
Jasmine found the third one; page 176, 3rd
paragraph
Carolina found the fourth one, page 176, 3rd
paragraph
Rachel found the fifth one, page 178, at the top of the page
on the left.
Simile is comparing two unlike objects using like or as.
Metaphor is comparing two unlike objects not using like or
as.
Simile:
You are as blind as a bat.
You are as big as an elephant.
You are as tall as a giraffe.
You are as shady as a tree.
He runs like a cheetah.
He laughs like a hyena.
Metaphor:
It’s raining cats and dogs.
In the water, she is a fish.
Her voice is a thunderclap!
She is a bird when she sings.
Heightened Style:
Here are some features of a heightened, ornate (fancy,
complex) style
1. Words
of many syllables, poetic or uncommon words
2. Allusions
to history, or myths, or literature, or art
3. A
very formal tone
4. Figures
of speech, such as metaphors, similes, personifications
Exercise 1. Identifying Features of a Heightened Style
At the (1)most
remote end of the crypt there appeared (1) another less spacious.
Please turn to Edgar Allan Poe “A Haunted Life”
Another word for tuberculosis is consumption.
