Agenda 10-7-11

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Agenda 10-7-11

• Good Things
• Reviewing terms
• Finish Visualization chart
• Comprehension Worksheets The Tell-Tale Heart
• Work on your Newspaper article due MONDAY

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Review Matching

• A person telling the story who cant be trusted
• A character who we learn a lot about.
• A representation of a big, abstract idea through
  an object or phrase.
• A genre of writing that relies on fear to suck us
  in.
• The emotional feeling we have as a reader.
• Clues as to the end of the story.
• The manner in which the writer decides to present
  the story.
• A character we dont learn a lot about
• Going back to a time before the current story.

1. Mood
2. Tone
3. Foreshadowing
4. Flashback
5. Unreliable Narrator
6. Round Character
7. Flat Character
8. Horror Fiction
9. Symbolism

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Answers

1. A person telling the story who cant be trusted
2. A character who we learn a lot about.
3. A representation of a big, abstract idea through
   an object or phrase.
4. A genre of writing that relies on fear to suck us
   in.
5. The emotional feeling we have as a reader.
6. Clues as to the end of the story.
7. The manner in which the writer decides to present
   the story.
8. A character we dont learn a lot about
9. Going back to a time before the current story.

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Grammar D.O.L. page 633

• Participial phrases are verbs that end in ing
  and are used with an adjective or adverb to
  describe the action a noun or pronoun is doing in
  a sentence.
• These are used to show that more than one thing
  is happening at a time.
• Turn to page 633
• Write questions 2, 4, and 5 replacing the word in
  the parentheses with a participle phrase.

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D.O.L.

1. Listen_____ _____________ he became convinced
   someone was there.
2. Work____ _________________I overturned the bed.
3. Smile____ _______________I welcomed the officers.

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The Tell-Tale Heart

• By Edgar Allen Poe

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Horror Fiction

• Fiction that plays on our emotions such as fear.
• Good horror makes us think there might be a
  POSSIBILITY of the horrible thing actually being
  true.
• Horror fiction contains a monster
• Someone or something threatening and/or impure
  (evil).
• If the monster is threatening, we feel scared.
• If the monster is impure, we feel disgusted.

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Themes of Horror fiction

• Most of the lessons have to do with discovering
  something about the possibility of bad human
  nature or evil experience.

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Edgar Allen Poe

• Edgar Allen Poe was the first American Horror
  Story author.
• Poes characters experienced much internal
  conflict, which made him a master of
  psychological suspense.

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Story Background

• In The Tell-Tale Heart the narrator insists he
  is not mad (crazy).
• As the story unfolds, we are exposed to the
  darkness of his mind and questionable sanity.

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Types of Characters

• Round characters
• Characters that have a lot of personality and
  development.
• Flat characters
• Characters that we do not know much about at all.

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Symbolism

• Use of a physical item represents a more
  important, abstract idea.
• A dark shadow may represent Death.
• For example, a wedding ring symbolizes the
  unending love of a couple. There is no beginning
  or end to the circle.

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Mood

• The atmosphere or emotional feeling of a story
• Mood is revealed through the description of the
  setting, the characters, and the dialogue.

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Tone

• The authors attitude toward the subject of their
  writing, such as positive/negative
  compassionate/uncaring.
• NOTE the MOOD is something that the reader
  feels. The TONE is something that the writer
  feels. Mr. T.W.

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Example of Tone

• Watch the following two clips. What is the tone
  of each clip? How does changing the way a story
  is presented change the tone?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vL4KQsPnz8Tw
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vfrUPnZMxr08

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Narrator

• Narrator The person telling us the story.
• First Person His own experience and recollection
  of events.
• Unreliable Narrator A narrator that doesn't know
  the truth, or doesn't have a realistic version of
  the true story.
• As readers, we know the truth or otherwise come
  to distrust the words of the narrator.
• As we read, determine whether this narrator is
  reliable or unreliable.
• As we read/listen write down clues to the
  narrator's sanity or insanity.

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Double Climax

• Two moments of intensity in a story.
• This happens when a character has more than one
  conflict to overcome.
• Conflict ? tension ? Climax
• What are two conflicts that the narrator has to
  overcome?
• What events cause the conflict for the narrator?

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Foreshadowing Flashback

• Foreshadowing A technique through which a writer
  provides clues about the outcome of a story
  before the end.

• Flashback A technique through which a writer
  stops the present flow of a story to tell about
  something that happened at an earlier date.

As we read the story, write down clues that
indicate how the story will end.
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Words To Know

• Acute
• Audacity
• Conceived
• Crevice
• Stifled
• Derision
• Hypocritical

• Stealthily
• Vex
• Vehemently
• Suavity
• Sagacity
• Waned

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Types of Context Clues

1. Example look for punctuation and words such as
   like, or, for example.
2. General Read the whole paragraph for the meaning
   of the word.
3. Synonym/Compare using a word with the same
   meaning that you probably know to provide the
   meaning of the context word.
4. Antonym/Contrast using a word with an opposite
   meaning you probably know to provide the meaning
   of the context word.
5. Restatement the definition is provided in the
   sentence.

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Acute

• Above all was my sense of hearing acute. I hear
  all things in the heaven and the earth.
• Synonym precise
• Antonym dull
• Sharp/keen

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Audacity

• I welcomed them to their seats with a wild
  audacity and triumph.
• Synonym bravado
• Antonym wimpy
• Shameless daring or boldness

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Conceived

• It is impossible to say how first the idea
  entered my brain, but once conceived, it haunted
  me day and night.
• Synonym imagined
• Antonym forget
• Thought of

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vex

• It was not the old man who vexed me, but his
  Evil Eye.
• Synonym bother, bug, irritate
• Antonym ignored
• To annoy or disturb

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stifled

• it was a low, stifled sound that arises from
  the bottom of the soul.
• Synonym quiet, trapped
• Antonym loud
• Muffled

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Crevice

• I opened the lamp to reveal a tiny crevice
• Synonym space
• Antonym seal
• A crack

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Stealthily

• You can not imagine how stealthily and quietly I
  opened the lantern.
• Synonym sneaky
• Antonym clumsy
• Sinister cautiousness

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Vehemently

• I talked more quickly, more vehemently
• Synonym certain
• Antonym insecure
• With intense emotion

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Derision

• They were making a mockery of me! I was tired of
  such derision and joking!
• Synonym make fun of
• Antonym tolerate
• Ridicule

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Hypocritical

• I could bear their hypocritical smiles no
  longer!
• Synonym two-faced
• Antonym honest
• False or deceptive, pretending to be who you are
  not.

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Tell-Tale

• The girls smile was a tell-tale sign that she
  was lying to her mother.
• Synonym tattletale, a symbol of existence
• Antonym secrets
• Something that reveals or betrays what is not
  intended to be known

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Sagacity

• Never before had I known the power of my own
  sagacity, of my own wit.
• Synonym smart
• Antonym dumb
• Intelligent

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Suavity

• There entered three men, who introduced
  themselves with perfect suavity.
• Synonym cool
• Antonym uncool
• Smooth, refined

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Waned

• The night waned, but still I worked hastily and
  in silence.
• Synonym cease
• Antonym begin
• To approach the end of a period of time.

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Story Board

• Fold your paper so that you have 8 squares.
• Number each square. Leave room for writing and
  drawing
• We will stop and visualize what is happening in
  the scene.
• Below each drawing, write a sentence explaining
  what is happening in the frame.

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Copy these onto paper and Answer in complete
sentences

1. What terrible thing does the narrator do?
2. What drives the man to do the deed?
3. Do you think the old-man knew he was going to
   die? How?
4. Why does the man confess his crime to the police?
5. What does the beating heart represent?
6. What is meant by Tell-Tale Heart? In other
   words, what does the phrase symbolize?
7. What effect does the repetition of phrases have
   on the mood of the story? with what
   cautionwith what foresightwith what
   dissimulation.
8. Where is this man now that he can tell us the
   story?
9. Is the narrator reliable? Why or why not? Use
   examples from the story to support your answer.
10. Was the narrator sane and just pushed to the
    point of horrible behavior, or was he insane all
    along? Use evidence from the story to support
    your answer.