• Identify and analyze setting and its impact on conflict and character

• Identify and analyze imagery

• Identify mood and analyze ways in which writers convey mood

• Analyze details

• Paraphrase

• Make inferences

• Identify author’s perspective

• Distinguish between primary and secondary sources

• Bring immediacy to writing by choosing an effective verb tense

• Write concisely by using compound predicates

•Summary writing

• View and interpret a film production

• Analyze how film and design techniques convey meaning

• Use context clues to unlock meaning

• Understand and use connotative and denotative meanings of words

See Handout

Inaugurate Sever Suffuse

Exhilarates Cavort Prosaic

Paraphernalia Goad

Squander Potent

From p. 343

Preclude Aperture

Impunity Subside

Immolation Termination

Abscond Repose

1) Read the section on the literary analysis workshop and answer the questions in your notebook.

2) Preview vocabulary and read Truman Capote’s "A Christmas Memory" pp. 308-322

***Finish reading for hw for Tuesday. Available on CZ (classzone.com).

C/C Papers Due Tuesday

Hard copy (no email)

Teacher edit

Tuesday, October 20 –Setting and Mood

1) Selection quiz on "A Christmas Memory"

2) Discuss the role of setting in the Capote piece; small groups develop textual evidence to evaluate

Capote’s depiction of setting, characters, and imagery.

3) Preview vocabulary and begin reading Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado."

**HW: Annotate Poe using the handout. Due Wednesday

Media study on Poe; discuss

Grammar: Grammar Handbook, p. 101, 102 – Compound/Complex sentences (A).

1) Finish discussion of Poe with focus on the development of mood and of the dramatic irony

2) Read and discuss "The Story Behind the Story" p. 352

3) HW: Read Doris Lessing "Through the Tunnel" beginning on page 328 (available on CZ). Mini essay (about 2 paragraphs): Explain how the setting in the story serves as a symbol. Type and double space your response. Please include proper citation of any sources, including the short story.—25 points. Due Friday.

1) Discuss the setting as symbol and Doris Lessing’s story

2) Mini lesson about connotation and denotation

Bring Grammar Books: In class exercise, semicolon and colons, pp. 258-259

Continued focus on Imagery and Mood

Read "The Peace of Wild Things" and "Sharks"

1***Finish reading for hw.

3) Selection test on "Cask," "Tunnel" and "Woods." Remember to review vocab.

1) Selection Test

2) Read the prompt on p. 377; you will be doing step 1, 2, 3 only.

Use Cornell notes for step 3 with the left hand column being the place where you "evaluate each item’s usefulness."

Read through the literary analysis workshop beginning on p. 490

Choose one of the following stories as your target:

"A Christmas Memory," "Through the Tunnel," "Cast of Amontillado."

You will be doing an analysis based on your reading of the "Literary analysis Workshop" on pp. 302-307

Formulate writing plan and begin work on rough draft

Rough Draft Work in computer lab

Email drafts to mhansen@mccsc.edu at the end of class

Print out a hard copy for peer editing

Bring a printed (hard copy) of your paper to class.

Peer editing

Conferencing as needed