9th Grade English

Monday, November 16, 2015

November 16, 2015 - November 20, 2015 Weekly Schedule for 9th Grade English

Monday, November 16th:

1st Period:

BIC:

8:00 – 8:20

Sustained Silent Reading

Work on the reading log

8:20 – 9:11

Work on your essay, which is due tomorrow!!!! Please refer to your notes and/or the blog for information on how to do the essay.

3rd Period:

First ten minutes of class sustained silent reading and work on reading log! Remember the second book is due Monday, November 30th.

Work on your essay, which is due tomorrow!!!! Please refer to your notes and/or the blog for information on how to do the essay.

Assigned Timerica and Cooper "The Necklace" and the vocabulary and literature packet for the short story.

Tuesday, November 17th:

Period 1:

BIC: Silent Sustained Reading and Reading Log

Read the first part of "The Trojan War: Part One", up to "Helen of Sparta".

Acted out part of it.

3^rd Period:

Silent Sustained Reading

Mythology:

Aphrodite: the Greek goddess of Love; one of the most beautiful goddesses of Olympus. The Roman name for the goddess of love was Venus!! Her son’s Greek name was Eros. The Roman name for Eros was Cupid.

Jonathan

Ashley

Tyler

Hera: Queen of the gods, married to Zeus. Zeus was a player! Hera spent most of her time chasing after her husband and punishing the people he played around with.

Hera was the queen of household duties and child bearing.

Kimberly

Isabel - ll

Athena: Goddess of military strategy and wisdom. She was one of the smartest of the gods and goddesses. Her symbol was her spear. Her favorite human was Odysseus.

Asiah

Arisbeth

Paola

Hermes: messenger of the gods. Also known as Mercury, the fleet of foot.

Paris: a mortal who was the son of King Priam. He was a silly young man who liked to chase girls. He was young and superficial. He caused so many problems his father, King Priam, sent him away to tend flocks of sheep. His father figured he couldn’t start problems looking after a bunch of sheep. He figured wrong.

Eris: Goddess of discord and quarreling. Wherever she went arguing and fights would follow. You don’t want HER at your wedding.

Thetis and Peleus: bride and groom who are getting married. The whole Trojan War started because Eris was not invited to their wedding!

Epic Poem: a long narrative poem about a great man, a nation, a people, and featuring great adventures.

Read up to “Helen of Sparta”

Didn’t get to act out.

Wednesday, November 18^th:

1^st Period:

BIC:

Silent Sustained Reading

Reading log

8:15 – 9:11

Arts Integration

Actors give the class a brief synopsis of ARGONAUTIKA

Then the actors perform the scenes “Aphrodite” and “By Moonlight”

3^rd Period:

10 minutes of Silent Sustained Reading

Arts Integration:

Actors give the class a brief synopsis of ARGONAUTIKA

Then the actors perform the scenes “Aphrodite” and “By Moonlight”

Thursday, November 19th:

BIC:

Silent Sustained Reading

Work on reading log

Looking Forward: Your AR reading log and test are due on Monday, November 30^th!

First and Third Period:

Work on the delinquent Edgar Allan Poe essay you were supposed to turn in on Tuesday, November 17^th!

Possible Introductory Paragraph Starters:

It was on an unseasonably cold and rainy October afternoon in Baltimore that Joseph Walker found a drunken man in filthy, odd fitting clothes lying in a gutter. However, the drunk was not just any drunk; the drunk was the one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century. He was Edgar Allan Poe, the great master of horror and mystery stories, whose own mysterious death rivals some of his own greatest mystery stories. The physicians, friends, and family members who were present with Poe at the time of his illness and death, seem to believe that Poe died from his long struggle with alcoholism – a battle he fought long and hard for many years and ultimately lost. However, one hundred fifty years later, a medical doctor working on the test case of a drunken man found in the gutter whose initials were E.P. realized that the case was that of Edgar Allan Poe, and that the great author did not die from alcoholism and its complications, but of rabies.

The last ten days of Poe’s life was baffling. According to documents we know that Poe boarded a steamer on Thursday morning, September 27^th at 4 a.m. from Virginia heading to Baltimore, but after that we know nothing about his whereabouts or what he was doing until he was found, in a drunken stupor in a Baltimore saloon, dressed in an other man’s shabby, cast-off clothes.

Due Friday, November 20th. No exceptions!

Friday, November 20th:

1st Period:

BIC:

Silent Sustained Reading

Reading Log

Mythology:

Hera: Queen of the gods, married to Zeus. Zeus was a player! Hera spent most of her time chasing after her husband and punishing the people he played around with.

Hera was the queen of household duties and child bearing.

Athena: Goddess of military strategy and wisdom. She was one of the smartest of the gods and goddesses. Her symbol was her spear. Her favorite human was Odysseus.

Hermes: messenger of the gods. Also known as Mercury, the fleet of foot.

Eris: Goddess of discord and quarreling. Wherever she went arguing and fights would follow. You don’t want HER at your wedding.

Helen of Sparta: the most beautiful woman in the world. Her mother was Princess Leda and her father was Zeus.

Helen’s step father, Tyndareus, is going to choose a husband from among Helen’s many suitors (a man who is interested in marrying a woman). But because there are so many suitors, King Tyndareus makes the suitors swear an oath that they will respect his decision and not kill or fight the man King Tyndareus chooses as a husband for his stepdaughter.

I, Regineous, promise to abide by King Tyndareus’s decision on the husband for his stepdaughter, Helen. Furthermore, I promise to join in battle along with the other suitors to fight any man who challenges King Tyndareus’ choice of husband.

Menelaus: King Tyndareus chooses Menelaus, who is much older and very boring.

Menelaus’ brother was Agammemnon, a very powerful general.

Graciously: with grace, politeness, with humility

Expedition: is an adventure, usually of an exploratory nature.

Read “The Trojan War: Part 1”

Act out

3rd Period:

Silent Sustained Reading

The Trojan War: Part 1

Review it and act out

Monday, November 09, 2015

November 9, 2015 - November 13, 2015 Weekly Schedule for 9th Grade English

Monday, November 9^th:

BIC:

8:00 – 8:20

Silent Sustained Reading

Work on your reading log

Take the AR Test

Find and check out another AR book!

The due date for the next book is Monday, November 30^th!

1^st Period:

Work on the Edgar Allan Poe packet.

Read and annotate the following:

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

“If Poe Had Succeeded When He Said Nevermore to Drink”

“Rabies Death Theory”

Assignment:

Imagine that you are writing a biography of Edgar Allan Poe. Write the last five paragraphs of your book, in which you tell about Poe’s mysterious death. In your discussion, synthesize (combine) the information from the four sources by paraphrasing the ideas, and comparing and contrasting the points. If you are dismissing the rabies theory, make sure you include the three reasons why the rabies theory does not work. If you are proposing the rabies theory as the cause of Poe’s death, make sure you include the evidence supporting why it is the best reason. Then write a concluding paragraph which sums up Poe’s tragic life and death.

What are the three possible explanations for Poe’s death?

Jelani:

Rabies, alcoholism, cerebral inflammation, exposure,

For homework, create a timeline detailing the last ten days of Poe’s life, starting from 4 a.m. Thursday, September 27^th to the day of his death.

4 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 27^th, Poe is on a steamer to Baltimore ___________

Vocabulary:

Maligned: to cast aspersions on another, to say or write vicious things about another to ruin or tarnish the other person’s reputation.

Malign: to purposely, to intentionally tarnish, to hurt, to damage someone’s reputation.

Comatose: to be in a coma, to be unconscious.

Hallucinate: to see something that is not there.

Belligerent: to be aggressively hostile, looking for a fight, wanting to fight.

The bullying eighth grader became even more belligerent when the frightened younger boy refused to give up his money.

Cardiologist: a doctor whose specialty is the heart.

Perspiring: sweating

Delirious: in a feverish state where one may be hallucinating and speaking nonsense or speaking incoherently.

Hydrophobia: fear of water

Rabid: an adjective describing someone or an animal, which has rabies.

The rabid dog chased the frightened child down the street.

Encephalitic: having to do with the brain.

Write down the main idea of the article, “Poe’s Death is Rewritten as Case of Rabies, Not Telltale Alcohol”; then write the three main points which are used as evidence to support the main idea.

3rd Period:

Sustained Silent Reading for ten minutes!

Kimberly – A+ for answering question!

Kimberly answered the question about what the main idea is, which is “Edgar Allan Poe did not drunk in a gutter in Baltimore, but rather had rabies”.

Evidence:

Lynn: Poe had all the symptoms of encephalitic rabies according to a doctor who specializes in rabies.

Reyna: Poe refused to drink alcohol and could only drink water with great difficulty, which is a classic symptom of rabies.

Ashley: About a quarter of all rabies victims cannot remember being bitten; the incubation period for rabies is about a year before symptoms appear, but when they do appear they can be swift and brutal.

Vocabulary for “If Poe Had Only Succeeded When He Said Nevermore to Drink”

Stupor: in a state where one is not aware of one’s surroundings; the person is drunk; or is physically or mentally ill.

Supplementary: additional, ancillary, not as important as but serves as additional back-up

Chronic: long lasting, some thing lasting on and off for a long time. Example: chronic pain or headaches.

Binge: when one over indulges in something bad.

Strewn: to be thrown about

Periodic: occurring in an irregular but consistent length of time.

Confirm: to verify, to prove correct, to corroborate

Underline the rebuttals offered by Pollin and Benedetto which refute Dr. Benitez’s argument.

Tyler:

Lack of a bite which would show Poe was bitten by an animal.

Josselyn:

Isabel:

Eye witnesses confirm that he was drunk!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, November 10th:

1st Period:

Tuesday, November 10^th:

BIC

Silent Sustained Reading

Reading Logs

8:15 – 9:11

Edgar Allan Poe Handout

“If Only Poe Had Succeeded When He Said Nevermore to Drink”

Vocabulary:

Binge: an intense indulgence in something that is not particularly good for you.

Elizabeth tries to keep a healthy diet but every once in a while she engages in a chocolate binge.

Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet who was as famous for his binge drinking as he was for his brilliant poetry.

Strewn: to be thrown about

Anselmo’s mom got mad at him when she found his clothes strewn about the floor.

Ascribe: to attribute to someone.

The short story was ascribed to Dalicia.

Whitewash: to make someone seem better than s/he is; to paint or gloss over the flaws of someone.

Sentence: To make it seem that Poe died of rabies rather than the chronic alcoholism he suffered from is to whitewash the truth of his life and his death.

What are the names of the writers of this article, “If Only Poe Had Succeeded When He Said Nevermore to Drink”

The writers are Burton R. Pollin and Robert E. Benedetto

The writers are refuting Dr. Bentitez’s claim that Poe died from rabies.

Refuting: rejecting or showing why an argument is incorrect.

They are saying there is no medical evidence to support the rabies argument.

Find their rebuttal and underline it.

Rebuttal of Benitez’s claim that Poe died of rabies:

Jayla: Caterina, Poe’s beloved kitty, died of starvation and not rabies.

Salome: Every person who knew Poe at the time of his death would not have agreed with the rabies explanation. Every person who saw Poe during his last days said he was drunk. Even Poe’s letters were filled with references to his drinking.

According to eyewitnesses, Poe was drunk when he was discovered in a Baltimore saloon three days before his death.

According to eyewitness accounts, Poe was drunk and was suffering from chronic alcoholism at the time of his death.

The eye witnesses were people who knew Poe well. One was a doctor, Dr. John J. Moran, who treated Poe as he was dying; another was an editor, Dr. Joseph Snodgrass, who had worked with Poe and was called to help when Poe was discovered dying; another was a printer, Joseph Walker, who found Poe in what he described as an “alcoholic stupor” outside a tavern in Baltimore.

Furthermore, Dr. John J. Moran, the attending physician at Poe’s death, had corresponded with Poe’s aunt and mother-in-law, Marie Clemm, regarding Poe’s alcoholic condition in the final week of his life. And even Poe’s letters to his wife, and his mother-in-law/aunt confirmed the history of his alcoholic binges.

Incubation: a period during which a disease is asymptomatic. The patient has been exposed to the virus or bacteria, but does not have the symptoms yet – in other words, is asymptomatic. The virus or the bacteria has invaded the body; for example, someone sneezes, spreading the cold virus, and you, unluckily breathe it in, allowing it access into your body. The virus is now spreading throughout the body, invading cells but you are asymptomatic (without symptoms) and are unaware at that point that you are infected.

Read “Rabies Death Theory” by R. Michael Benitez, M.D.

Underline Dr. Benitez’ defense of his theory.

Rabid patients cannot always recall the moment of contact with a diseased animal.

The incubation period for rabies can be as long as a year.

The site of the bite is often small and not detectable by the patient.

Nowhere did Benitez suggest that Caterina, Poe’s beloved cat, was the agent for the transmission of the disease – that she bit Poe and gave him rabies.

Period 3:

Read “Rabies Death Theory”

Find the main idea

Find the evidence Dr. Benitez uses to support his main idea

Circle or underline any words you do not understand.

VOCABULARY:

Incubation: In medicine, the time from the moment of exposure to a disease until the symptoms begin to appear.

Incubation: a period during which a disease is asymptomatic. The patient has been exposed to the virus or bacteria, but does not have the symptoms yet – in other words, the patient is asymptomatic. The virus or the bacteria has invaded the body; for example, someone sneezes, spreading the cold virus, and you, unluckily breathe it in, allowing it access into your body. The virus is now spreading throughout the body, invading cells but you are asymptomatic (without symptoms) and are unaware at that point that you are infected.

Inoculation: A deliberate introduction into a human or animal of serum made with weakened or dead cells from a disease, which causes the white blood cells to fight the disease. This causes the person or animal to then be immunized or protected from the disease.

Rhabdovirus: the active agent in the bodily fluids of a rabid animal or human. It is this virus that causes rabies.

Isabel:

Benitez: He does not admit that the lack of a bite or scratch is a weakness.

Lynn:

The incubation period for rabies may be as long as a year.

Asiah:

The lack of a bite or a scratch does not mean that he didn’t die of rabies.

Kristina:

Just because Poe’s cat, Caterina, did not die from rabies does not mean that Poe didn’t contract it from another sources.

Application:

Imagine that you are writing a biography of Edgar Allan Poe. Write the last few paragraphs of your book, in which you tell about Poe’s death.

Structure of the Essay:

First paragraph:

Set up the tragic circumstances of Poe’s last ten days.

Set up the question regarding the mysterious way Poe died.
Briefly state the two theories regarding Poe's death - he either died from alcoholism and the complications of alcoholism, or he died from rabies.

Second paragraph:

You may want to use the account of Dr. John J. Moran, Poe's attending physician, and the accounts of the eyewitnesses of Poe's death. The information from the time line will be useful here.

Third paragraph:

You need to include Dr. Benitez’ opinion that Poe died from rabies. You MUST USE his evidence.

Fourth paragraph:

You have to show how either Benitez is correct and use evidence to support Benitez’ claim, or show how Dr. Moran’s claim that he died from alcoholism is correct and use evidence to support his claim.

You must use a counter claim to show why your opinion is right and why the other opinion is wrong.

Fifth Paragraph:

Final concluding paragraph in which you restate the main idea, briefly list your arguments, and briefly state why the opposing argument is wrong. The last sentence should be your final thoughts about Edgar Allan Poe and his death.

The essay will be due on Tuesday, November 17th!

Wednesday, November 11th:

No School Today!

Thursday, November 12th:

BIC:

SILENT SUSTAINED READING

WRITE AN ENTRY IN YOUR READING LOG

1^st and 3rd Period:

Start working on your five paragraph “last page of your Edgar Allan Poe biography” essay in which you discuss the various theories of how Poe died. The essay must include the medical and forensic (the letters from Poe to his family, and eyewitness accounts) evidence which suggests he died of alcoholism, cerebral inflammation, or exposure, or all three, and the medical evidence which suggests he died from rabies. Choose one of the theories – alcoholism or rabies – and use the evidence to defend your choice.

Structure of the Essay:

First paragraph:

Set up the tragic circumstances of Poe’s last ten days.

Set up the question regarding the mysterious way Poe died.

Set up the two competing theories of how Edgar Allan Poe died: either from alcoholism or rabies.

Second paragraph:

You may want to use Dr. John J. Moran’s account of how Poe died, and the eye-witness accounts. In this paragraph you may want to refer to the time-line you constructed of Poe’s final days to help you.

Third paragraph:

You need to include Dr. Benitez’ opinion that Poe died from rabies. You MUST USE his evidence.

Fourth paragraph:

You have to show how either Benitez is correct, that Poe died from rabies, and use evidence to support Benitez’ claim, or show Dr. Moran is correct, that Poe died from alcoholism and its complications, and use evidence to support Moran's claim.

You must use a counter claim to show why your opinion is right and why the other opinion is wrong.

Fifth Paragraph:

To help you get started, reread your notes, annotations, and the sources to refresh your memory. Then do a quick write where you quickly, and without regard to punctuation, grammar or spelling, write down everything you know about the topic. Everything - in whatever order the ideas come to you. After you are finished, reread it and then begin organizing the information according to the structure above. The organizing of the information will be your first draft.

Friday, November 13th:

1st and 3rd Period:

In library today to take the Smarter Balanced 9th Grade Reading and Writing Practice Assessment.

Looking ahead:
Your essay on Poe's death will be due on Tuesday, November 17th. Must be typed.

Friday, November 06, 2015

Edgar Allan Poe's Life and Death

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 27^th.

There is no reliable witness or evidence regarding Poe’s whereabouts or activities between September 27^th and October 3^rd, 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 19^th 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 27^th to October 7^th detailing what we know about Poe’s life.

TIME LINE of the LAST TEN DAYS of EDGAR ALLAN 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 27^th.

There is no reliable witness or evidence regarding Poe’s whereabouts or activities between September 27^th and October 3^rd, 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 3^rd.

Poe arrived at the hospital in a stupor. He remained unconscious until three a.m. the next morning, Friday, October 4^th, 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 6^th, when he started deliriously calling out someone’s name until three o’clock, Sunday morning, October 7^th.

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

November 2, 2015 - November 6, 2015 Weekly Agenda

Monday, November 2nd:

1^st Period:

9^th 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 4^th.

3^rd Period:

9^th 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 4^th.

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 4^th:

1^st 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 9^th 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.

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 9^th 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!

Thursday, November 5^th:

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”

Looking ahead:

Work on the Edgar Allan Poe Packet

November 13^th: Assessment

November 18^th:

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 19^th 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.

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.

ASSIGNMENT:

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:

1^st 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 27^th.

Tavern: a bar with a restaurant. In the 19^th 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

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 27^th to October 7^th 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 27^th.

Poe was admitted into the hospital at five in the afternoon of Thursday, October 3^rd.

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 6^th, when he started deliriously calling out someone’s name until three o’clock, Sunday morning, October 7^th.

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 27^th to October 7^th 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 27^th.

Poe was admitted into the hospital at five in the afternoon of Thursday, October 3^rd.

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 6^th, when he started deliriously calling out someone’s name until three o’clock, Sunday morning, October 7^th.

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.27^th at 4 a.m.

Asiah:

Election Day on Thursday, October 3^rd

Poe was at the tavern drunk, and in a state of “vacant stupidity”. Disheveled and wearing the clothes of someone else.

Thursday, October 3^rd at 5 p.m. Poe was admitted into the hospital

Reyna:

Poe was semi-conscious until…..

On 3 a.m., Friday morning, October 4^th, 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 6^th. He raved for forty hours!!!!!

On the evening of Saturday, October 6^th, Poe began calling out someone’s name.

At 3 a.m. Sunday morning, October 7^th, 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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November 16, 2015 - November 20, 2015 Weekly Schedule for 9th Grade English

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November 9, 2015 - November 13, 2015 Weekly Schedule for 9th Grade English

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