In #233
9th grade IAB Informational Reading Test
Tuesday, November 7th:
Tuesday, November 7th:
In room #223 to finish testing
IAB 9th 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:
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
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 6th 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.
