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”