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.
