November 6, 2017 - November 9, 2017 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English

Monday, November 6th:

In #233

9^th grade IAB Informational Reading Test

Tuesday, November 7th: 

In room #223 to finish testing

IAB 9^th Grade Informational Reading

For those who are finished with the test, read Maya Angelou’s “Woman Work” and answer those questions that are circled: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and then write a short poem that is modeled on Woman Work but it’s going to be about your life: “I’ve got homework to do….”
This will be due tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 8th: 

Please turn in your reading log (notes) for The Cask of Amontillado

For extra credit, you may type it and submit it to schoology.

For extra credit, you must bring a signed ticket to dance show.

For extra credit, you must bring a signed ticket to the Halloween show.

Answer the circled questions:

1. Name the five activities listed by the speak of "Woman Work".

3. What does the catalog of images in "Woman Work" tell you about the life of the speaker? Where do you  think she lives?

4. What is the tone of the poem "Woman Work"? What is the woman's attitude towards her life? Cite details to explain the tone of the poem.

5. Look at the second through fifth stanza. Who is the woman addressing? What are the things the woman is asking for?

7. How would the poem be different if it were written by a man?

Writing "My Day"

Using the poem "Woman Work", write a poem about your day.

Start the poem off with "I've got  - " and then list the things you have to do during the course of the day.

Posted Tue Nov 7, 2017 at 1:04 pm

If you have not already, you need to turn in your packet for The Cask of Amontillado

Poe's Last Days

Page 185

Bottom of the left hand column

“According to Moran and his wife….”

Milan:

Drenched in sweat, pale, delirious

Spectral: ghostly and unreal

Thursday, November 9th: 

Finished reading "Poe's Last Days" 
Reading Log 

Began reading "A Case of Rabies" 
Reading log 

Top of page 186  of “Poe’s Final Days” 

Finish reading "Poe's Last Days" 

Reading log 

 Incoherent:

Trenton: speech that suggests the speaker is not in a sane state.

Taylor: Expressed in an incomprehensible state.

When Moran questions Poe, his answers are incoherent. He did not know what happened to his trunk. He also said that he left his wife in Richmond – but Poe’s wife was dead, and he had broken up with his fiancée.

What were Poe’s last words?

Trenton: “Lord help my poor soul.”

And when did he expire?

October 6^th at 3 a.m.

Expires means to die.

Diego: the only family members who visited Poe were the two daughters of his uncle-in-law, Henry Herring.

Diego: Poe became violent and had to be held down by two nurses.

Do we know how and why Poe died?

Moran reported that Poe’s heavy perspiration, trembling, and hallucinations suggest that  he died of delirium tremens, mania a potu.

Profuse: heavy, a great deal of

Lethal:

Milan – deadly

What do most of the people, including the doctors, think Poe died from?

From heavy alcoholism.

Congestion of the brain is what doctors referred to as alcoholism. Congestion of the brain is a euphemism for death by alcoholism

Euphemism: a more polite expression for an embarrassing thing, situation, or event.

“I have to powder my nose” is a euphemism for going to the bathroom.

Cerebral refers to the brain

Inflammation: inflamed, swollen, infected

Vigorously:with great energy, with great strength

Disputed: argued

Poe’s immune system was already weakened by years of alcoholism. He was already sick with a fever, and he was simply too drunk to care for himself.

“Poe’s Death is Rewritten as Case of Rabies, Not Telltale Alcohol”

Page 187

Cardiologist: a heart doctor

Reading: Diego

Lizbeth:

Maligned: falsely accused, slandered

Comatose: in a coma

Belligerent: angry and aggressive, ready to start a fight

Reading:

David

Hydrophobia: fear of water

Many people do not know that they have been bitten by a rabid animal. It can take a year for the symptoms to appear.

Dr. Benitez believes that Poe had died from encephalitic rabies.

Temperance advocate: someone advocates that no one drinks.

Dr. Benitez believes that Dr. Moran had become a temperance advocate and had changed the detail of Poe’s death to convince people that drinking was dangerous and should be banned.