Monday, November 2nd:
1st Period:
9th Grade English
8:00 – 8:15: BIC
8:15 – 9:11: The students may either do silent sustained
reading, work on their reading log for their AR book, or they may work on their
grammar packet which will be due on Wednesday, November 4th.
3rd Period:
9th Grade English
The students may either do silent sustained reading, work on
their reading log for their AR book, or they may work on their grammar packet,
which will be due on Wednesday, November 4th.
Tuesday, November 3rd:
1st Period:
BIC: 8:100 - 8:15
Silent Sustained Reading or work on your reading log
Reading log is due today
Go over the grammar packet
3rd Period:
Silent Sustained Reading or work on your reading log
Reading log is due today
Go over the grammar packet
Wednesday, November 4th:
1st Period:
BIC:
Things to do during BIC:
Silent Sustained Reading and your reading log
Work on the grammar packet
Work on “The Cask of Amontillado”
What is due today:
Your grammar packet
Your “The Cask of Amontillado” packet
You still need to take your AR test, turn in your reading
log and your AR weekly reading log
Things that will count during this grading period:
Everything having to do with the 9th Grade
Interim Assessment
Graphic Organizer
Five Evidence Based Questions
Your essay and the rewrite
Everything having to do with “The Cask of Amontillado”
The Packet for “The Cask of Amontillado”
“The Cask of Amontillado” Test
The Grammar Packet
Grammar Review:
Participle is a verb that has an “ed” or an “ing” attached
to it and is used as an adjective.
To whine is a verb that Anselmo and Regina do exceptionally
well!!!!!
The dog whined at the door.
Dalicia says: The whining dog pawed at the door. The participle “whining” is used to
describe the dog!!!!
I folded the paper.
I threw away the folded paper.
There are two kinds of participles: present and the past.
Zippy, Regina’s puppy, chased the rolling ball. Rolling is present
The doghouse -
which Anselmo is going to be in if he doesn’t do his homework - painted
blue, sat under a tree.
The participle is a verb with an ed or an ing attached to it
and is usually placed before a noun, making it work as an adjective.
Participles can also be used in verb phrases.
Zippy had been
playing with a ball. Playing is
a present participle. Had Been are
auxiliary or helping verbs.
Example: The ball slipped past the first puzzled batter.
Puzzle is a verb; add “ed”; place it before the noun and presto! You have a
participle!
Directions:
Draw a line under the participle and then draw an arrow to
the noun it modifies or describes.
Phrase is a group of words that are related but are not a
full sentence.
Jelani put the invitations, written on red paper, in his
friends’ lockers.
Four recently built aircraft are ready for
flights.
Build Built
Was
built, Have been Built, Had been built
Directions for “Participial Phrases”:
Underline the noun and draw an arrow from the participial
phrase to the noun it is describing.
For homework: Finish the packet.
Looking ahead:
What state was Poe in when he was carried into the carriage? Insensible and muttering.
ASSIGNMENT:
3rd Period:
Silent Sustained Reading and your reading log
Work on the grammar packet
Work on “The Cask of Amontillado”
What is due today:
Your grammar packet
Your “The Cask of Amontillado” packet
You still need to take your AR test, turn in your reading log and your AR weekly reading log
Things that will count during this grading period:
Everything having to do with the 9th Grade Interim Assessment
Graphic Organizer
Five Evidence Based Questions
Your essay and the rewrite
Everything having to do with “The Cask of Amontillado”
The Packet for “The Cask of Amontillado”
“The Cask of Amontillado” Test
The Grammar Packet
Grammar Review
Went over participle and participial phrases in the grammar packet.
Packets due at the end of the period!
Packets due at the end of the period!
Thursday, November 5th:
1st Period:
BIC:
8:00 – 8:25
Silent Sustained
Reading and/work on your reading log
Read “The Other Man in the Wall”; page 236
Read the biography of Edgar Allan Poe; page 240
Discussion
Period 3:
Edgar Allan Poe Packet
Elements of Literature
Pages 236, “The Other Man in the Wall”
and 240, “The Biography of Edgar Allan Poe”
Work on the Edgar Allan Poe Packet
November 13th: Assessment
November 18th:
THE ODYSSEY
The Edgar Allan Poe Packet:
Heroin: is a drug, an opiate
Heroine: is a female hero
Tavern: a bar with a restaurant. In the 19th
century, many taverns also had room to rent.
Watering Hole: a slang term for a bar where many people,
particularly locals, go to drink, socialize, and find out the latest
gossip.
Polling Place: where one votes
Dire: serious, urgent, darkly urgent
Vacant stupidity: when one is not feeling well and is
sitting staring, unfocused.
Dingy: dirty
Snodgrass thought that Poe had been robbed, robbed of his
clothes, and that Poe was wearing the
clothes belonging to someone else.
Muddy was Poe’s mother-in-law
Why did Herring refuse to take care of Poe? Reyna: He was
ungrateful, and when drunk he was abusive to Herring.
What state was Poe in when he was carried into the carriage? Insensible and muttering.
Insensible means not aware of your surroundings.
Stupor: Unaware of his surroundings, semi-conscious.
Tremor: a trembling or a shaking of the limbs
Delirium: a feverish hallucination
Spectral: ghostly
Why does Poe not like his cousin, Neilson?
Reyna said Poe believed Neilson was jealous of Poe’s
literary reputation.
Nicole: Neilson offered a home just for Poe’s wife and mother-in-law so that they could get away from Poe.
Nicole: Neilson offered a home just for Poe’s wife and mother-in-law so that they could get away from Poe.
Isabel: Poe thought Neilson was bitter.
Incoherent: unintelligible; not making any sense
Degradation: decline
Feeble: weak
Exertions: extreme physical efforts
Euphemism: a phrase used to hide the unpleasant nature of
something. An example would be using the term “cerebral inflammation” to hide
the fact that the cause of death was alcoholism.
Cerebral: having to do with the brain
Inflammation: swelling
Cerebral inflammation: swelling of the brain.
1. What are two possible causes of Poe's death that have been offered by doctors?
2. What is the time line of the last twelve days of Poe’s life - from September 27th to October 7th?
Friday, November 6th:
1st
Period:
BIC:
8:00 – 8:15
Silent sustained
reading
Work on your reading
log
Pass out the Edgar Allan Poe packet
Annotate the essays.
Annotating means to underline important ideas, write
comments, or definitions.
Edgar Allan Poe:
Heroin: is a drug, an opiate
Heroine: is a female hero
Poe set off for Baltimore on the four a.m. steamer on
Thursday, September 27th.
There is no reliable witness or evidence regarding Poe’s
whereabouts or activities between September 27th and October 3rd,
when he is found sitting in a stupor at Gunnar’s Hall, a Baltimore tavern,
strangely dressed and semi-conscious.
Tavern: a bar with a restaurant. In the 19th
century, many taverns also had rooms to rent.
Watering Hole: a slang term for a bar where many people,
particularly locals, go to drink, socialize, and find out the latest
gossip.
Polling Place: where one votes
Dire: serious, urgent, darkly urgent
Onlookers: people who are standing around looking at or
watching the event that is taking place.
Vacant stupidity: when one is not feeling well and is
sitting staring, unfocused.
Dingy: dirty
Cast off clothing: Snodgrass thought that Poe had been
robbed, robbed of his clothes, and that Poe was wearing the clothes that had been “cast off” or
thrown away by someone else.
Muddy was Poe’s mother-in-law
Why did Herring refuse to take care of Poe?
He was ungrateful,
and when drunk he was abusive to Herring.
In what state was Poe in when he was carried into the
carriage?
Insensible means not aware of your surroundings. Poe was insensible and muttering when he
was put into the carriage.
To Adorn means to decorate or to make more beautiful.
Stupor: Unaware of his surroundings, semi-conscious.
Tremor: a trembling or a shaking of the limbs
Delirium: a feverish hallucination
Spectral: ghostly
Why does Poe not like his cousin, Neilson?
Poe believed
Neilson was jealous of Poe’s literary reputation.
Neilson offered
a home just for Poe’s wife and mother-in-law, so they could get away from Poe.
Poe thought
Neilson was bitter.
Incoherent: unintelligible; not making any sense; crazy
Degradation: decline
Rouse: to raise up; to cheer up; to uplift someone’s
spirits;
Feeble: weak
Exertions: extreme physical efforts
Euphemism: a phrase used to hide the unpleasant nature of
something. An example would be using the term “cerebral inflammation” to hide
the fact that the cause of death was alcoholism. We use euphemisms every day.
We say,” I have to go powder my nose” or “I have to see a man about a horse”
when we have to leave to go to the restroom. Even the word “restroom” is a
euphemism for it disguises what we are actually doing there. We don’t “rest” in
the restroom.
Cerebral: having to do with the brain
Inflammation: swelling
Cerebral inflammation: swelling of the brain.
What are the three explanations given for Poe’s death?
Create a time line from September 27th to October
7th detailing what we know about Poe’s life.
After his engagement
was broken off with Elmira Shelton, Poe left Richmond, Virginia, for Baltimore on the four a.m. steamer
on Thursday, September 27th.
There is no reliable
witness or evidence regarding Poe’s whereabouts or activities between September
27th and October 3rd, where he is found sitting in a
stupor at Gunnar’s Hall, a Baltimore tavern, strangely dressed and
semi-conscious.
Poe was admitted into
the hospital at five in the afternoon of Thursday, October 3rd.
Poe arrived at the hospital in a stupor. He remained unconscious until three a.m.
the next morning, Friday, October 4th, when he developed tremors and
became violently delirious, resisting the efforts of two nurses to keep him in
bed.
Poe violently raved
from 3 a.m. Friday, to Saturday evening – approximately, thirty hours.
Saturday evening he
began to call out someone’s name until three o’clock Sunday morning, when he
expired or died. He was deliriously calling out someone’s name for nine hours.
Poe raved a full day
or more, through Saturday evening, October 6th, when he started
deliriously calling out someone’s name until three o’clock, Sunday morning,
October 7th.
Period 3:
Finished reading “Poe’s Final Days”
Discussion
Vocabulary for “Poe’s Final Days”:
Inflammation: swelling
Cerebral inflammation: swelling of the brain.
Exposure: Being exposed to the harsh conditions of the
outside without appropriate clothing, food, or shelter.
Create a time line from September 27th to October
7th detailing what we know about Poe’s life.
Asiah:
After his engagement
was broken off with Elmira Shelton, Poe left Richmond, Virginia, for Baltimore on the four a.m. steamer
on Thursday, September 27th.
There is no reliable
witness or evidence regarding Poe’s whereabouts or activities between September
27th and October 3rd, where he is found sitting in a
stupor at Gunnar’s Hall, a Baltimore tavern, strangely dressed and
semi-conscious.
Poe was admitted into
the hospital at five in the afternoon of Thursday, October 3rd.
Poe arrived at the hospital in a stupor. He remained unconscious until three a.m. the
next morning, Friday, October 4th, when he developed tremors and
became violently delirious, resisting the efforts of two nurses to keep him in
bed.
Poe violently raved
from 3 a.m. Friday, to Saturday evening – approximately, forty hours.
Saturday evening he
began to call out someone’s name until three o’clock Sunday morning, when he
expired or died. He was deliriously calling out someone’s name for nine hours.
Poe raved a full day
or more, through Saturday evening, October 6th, when he started deliriously
calling out someone’s name until three o’clock, Sunday morning, October 7th.
Assignments:
What are the two
explanations given for Poe’s death?
Reyna:
Alcoholism
Brain Inflammation
Kimberly:
Encephalitis
Isabel:
Congestion of the brain
Too drunk to care
Asiah:
Cerebral Inflammation
Johan:
Exposure
Isabel:
Fall
Thursday, Sept.27th at 4 a.m.
Asiah:
Election Day on Thursday, October 3rd
Poe was at the tavern drunk, and in a state of “vacant
stupidity”. Disheveled and wearing the clothes of someone else.
Thursday, October 3rd at 5 p.m. Poe was admitted
into the hospital
Reyna:
Poe was semi-conscious until…..
On 3 a.m., Friday morning, October 4th, Poe was
violently delirious, and resisted the efforts of two nurses to keep in him in bed.
He raved for forty hours until the evening of Saturday,
October 6th. He raved
for forty hours!!!!!
On the evening of Saturday, October 6th, Poe
began calling out someone’s name.
At 3 a.m. Sunday morning, October 7th, Poe’s
condition changed to a feeble, weakened condition. At the end, he said, “Lord have
mercy on this poor soul!” And then he died.
Lynn read “Poe’s Death is Rewritten as Case of Rabies, Not
Telltale Alcohol”
Vocabulary:
Participation Points:
Belligerent:
Kristina: belligerent means hostile and aggressive!!!!!
Maligned:
Asiah:
Kristina: maligned means to speak of another in a spiteful,
disparaging, mean way meant to make that person look bad.
Cardiologist: a doctor whose specialty concerns the heart.
Kristina:
Comatose is to be in a deep unconscious state; to be in a
coma
Hydrophobia: fear of water
Succumbed: failure to resist pressure, or temptation, or
negative forces.
Poe succumbed to rabies, according to Dr. Benitez.
Asiah read “If Only Poe Had Succeeded When He Said Nevermore
to Drink”.
ASSIGNMENT:
Reread the article, “If Only Poe Had Succeeded When He Said
Nevermore to Drink”.
Highlight or underline the main idea and then underline or highlight
the supporting evidence, which refutes the premise that Poe died of rabies.
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