"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Literary analysis in TMDG, narrative writing

Week # 5 September 24-28, 2012

Literature: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell and "Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
Writing: Literary writing
Vocabulary: "The Most Dangerous Game" additional words: mirage, braggart, pungent, precarious, placid, mystify, anguish, vigor, leer, discern, disarming, ardent, debacle, surmount, grisly, naive, elude, stealthy, futile, pungent, uncanny, precarious, tangible, placid, frantic

"Cask of Amontillado" words: aperture, circumscribe, connoisseur, crypt, distill gesticulate, ignoramus, implore, impunity, insufferable, motley, perceive, recess, redress, repose, termination, vault, vintage, virtuouso

Homework:
- SAT vocab notes on "The Most Dangerous Game" words - due: Sept.24
- SAT vocab notes on "The Most Dangerous Game" additional words - due: Oct.1                                                                                           
- SAT vocab notes on "The Cask of Amontillado" words - due: Oct. 8
- Sentence Homework #1 - due: Sept. 25
- Figurative and Plot Devices assignment - due: Sept. 26

Monday

• Take vocabulary Quiz #3 - "The Most Dangerous Game" words.
• Continue reading "The Most Dangerous Game" and annotate for understanding of literary techniques.

Tuesday

• Warm-up: sentence unscrambling with prepositional phrase. 
• Understand and analyze figurative language and plot devices in "The Most Dangerous Game."
• Prepare to read "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. Review tone and mood in literature.

Wednesday

• Continue to read "The Cask of Amontillado" and analyze tone and mood in the story.
• Annotate the rest of the story for conflict, setting, irony, mood, narrator's purpose, foreshadowing, sound imagery, climax, and resolution.

Thursday - Friday

• Writing workshop.
• Complete narrative outline and write first draft.
• Conference with peers before writing second draft.