Week+Two

__Week Two__

Day One:

1. Check vocabulary cards and go over BINDER ORGANIZATION

2. check annotations (pick a few passages and see what they picked out and how they identified them) - come up with strategies with effective annotating 3. WHAT IS AN INTERLOPER??? - continue discussing conflict (external vs. internal) and identify specific examples from text

4. Go over Story Summaries - (Characters, Setting, Plot, etc.) --> Plot Diagram

Hw:/ Create an effective Summary Page for "The Interlopers" to be put into binders

Day Two:

1. Check Summary Page for "The Interlopers" 2. Continue to explain variables of a Plot Diagram 3. In-class reading of _ - in-class annotations (individual, partners, group????) - start identifying key vocabulary

Hw:/ Interlopers Handout

Day Three:

1. Wrap up discussion on "The Interlopers" (what is irony? Is there anything ironic about this story?) 2. Introduce class to Edgar Allan Poe (biography???) Who was he? When did he live? What kind of writer was he? Maybe read reviews of peer readers from this site: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261240.The_Cask_of_Amontillado - read a couple of reviews (scroll down to give students idea of what we are getting into)

3. Discuss key vocabulary from the story: precluded, retribution, afflicted, explicit, recoiling, subsided, catacombs, perceive, render, venture, vigorously 4. What are __predictions__?

GRAMMAR FOCUS: CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT NOUNS

Hw:/ Print, read and annotate "The Cask of Amontillado" (can be found in links section of English WIS page) - One Paragraph answering the question: Who is Edgar Allan Poe?