Agenda 10-10-12

1. Agenda 10-10-12 • Good Things • Literary elements review • Continue reading “The Tell Tale Heart” • Storyboard • Vocabulary Charts

2. Review: Matching • Mood • Tone • Foreshadowing • Flashback • Unreliable Narrator • Round Character • Flat Character • Horror Fiction • Symbolism • A person telling the story who can’t 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 don’t learn a lot about • Going back to a time before the current story.

3. Types of Context Clues • Example: look for punctuation and words such as “like”, “or”, “for example.” • General: Read the whole paragraph for the meaning of the word. • Synonym/Compare: using a word with the same meaning that you probably know to provide the meaning of the context word. • Antonym/Contrast: using a word with an opposite meaning you probably know to provide the meaning of the context word. • Restatement: the definition is provided in the sentence by reusing it in another manner • Definition: The word is actually defined

4. Brainteasers • Where do baby ghosts go during the day? • Why was the skeleton afraid to cross the road? • What kind of streets do zombies like best?

5. What are the scariest things to go bump in the night? • What are you afraid of lurking in the dark?

6. The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe

7. Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849

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

9. Horror Fiction Characteristics • 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. • Horror fiction contains a realistic threat

10. Themes of Horror fiction • Most of the lessons have to do with discovering something about the possibility of bad human nature or evil experience. • Horror Fiction also highlights choices and temptations, good versus evil, plans versus fate, and consequences of actions.

11. 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.

12. Symbolism Use of a physical item represents a more important, abstract idea. A “dark shadow” or a raven may represent Death.

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

14. Tone • The author’s 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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?

18. Words To Know • Acute • Audacity • Conceived • Crevice • Stifled • Derision • Hypocritical • Stealthily • Vex • Vehemently • Suavity • Sagacity • Waned

19. 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

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

21. 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

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

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

24. Crevice • “I opened the lamp to reveal a tiny crevice…” • Synonym: space • Antonym: seal • A crack

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

26. Vehemently • “I talked more quickly, more vehemently…” • Synonym: certain, with conviction • Antonym: insecure • With intense emotion

27. Derision • “They were making a mockery of me! I was tired of such derision and joking!” • Synonym: make fun of • Antonym: tolerate • Ridicule

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

29. Tell-Tale • The girl’s 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

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

31. Suavity • “There entered three men, who introduced themselves with perfect suavity.” • Synonym: cool • Antonym: uncool • Smooth, refined

32. 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.

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. Copy these onto paper and Answer in complete sentences • What terrible thing does the narrator do? • What drives the man to do the deed? • Do you think the old-man knew he was going to die? How? • Why does the man confess his crime to the police? • What does the beating heart represent? • What is meant by “Tell-Tale” Heart? In other words, what does the phrase symbolize? • What effect does the repetition of phrases have on the mood of the story? “with what caution—with what foresight—with what dissimulation.” • Where is this man now that he can tell us the story? • Is the narrator reliable? Why or why not? Use examples from the story to support your answer. • 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.

36. Someone I Admire • Think of a person, real or fictional, who you think is admirable. • Write down details about each of the following: • Name of the person (real or fictional, living or deceased). • How you know or know of this person; • What the person looks/looked like; • What the person does/did in his or her life that was cool enough to admire; • Why you think of this person as a positive person in your life; • Things about the person you would like to have within yourself.

37. Answers • A person telling the story who can’t 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 don’t learn a lot about • Going back to a time before the current story.

38. 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.

39. D.O.L. • Listen_____ _____________ he became convinced someone was there. • Work____ _________________I overturned the bed. • Smile____ _______________I welcomed the officers.