1. Happy Monday! Please answer the following for Bell Work 5…
Q1:
Define “motif” & state what the motif is in “The Scarlet Ibis,”
Q2:
Why does the author choose to use this as the motif? In your opinion, is it effective? Explain.

2. “The Scarlet Ibis” Follow-up
Part 1: Tracking
* Motif (red)
* Figurative Language (underlined)
* Setting (green)
Part 2: Important Quotes
* Explain what it shows about the
narrator
* Connect the quote to your own
life or real events
Part 3: Symbolism
Interpretation
Connotation
What’s going on in the story
Your thoughts, reactions, etc.

3. The Scarlet Ibis Doodle
On the topmost branch a bird the size of a chicken, with scarlet feathers and long legs, was precariously. Its wings hung down loosely, and as we watched, a feather dropped away and floated slowly down through the green leaves. Doodle's hands were clasped at his throat, and I had never seen him stand still so long.
"What is it?" he asked. At that moment the bird began to flutter, but the wings were uncoordinated, and amid much flapping and a spray of flying feathers, it tumbled down, bumping through the limbs of the bleeding tree and landing at our feet with a thud. Its long, graceful neck jerked twice into an S, then straightened out, and the bird was still. A white veil came over the eyes and the long white beak unhinged. Its legs were crossed and its clawlike feet were delicately curved at rest. Even death did not mar its grace, for it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers, and we stood around it, awed by its exotic beauty.
"Go bring me the bird book," said Daddy. I ran into the house and brought back the bird book. As we watched, Daddy thumbed through its pages. "It's a scarlet ibis," he said, pointing to a picture. "It lives in the tropics--South America to Florida. A storm must have brought it here." Sadly, we all looked back at the bird. A scarlet ibis! How many miles it had traveled to die like this, in our yard, beneath the bleeding tree.
Doodle
Doodle said he was too tired to swim, so we got into a skiff and floated down the creek with the tide. Doodle did not speak and kept his head turned away, letting one hand trail limply in the water.
As I waited, I peered through the downpour, but no one came. Finally I went back and found him huddled beneath a red nightshade bush beside the road. He was sitting on the ground, his face buried in his arms, which were resting on his drawn-up knees. "Let's go, Doodle," I said.
He didn't answer, so I placed my hand on his forehead and lifted his head. Limply, he fell backwards onto the earth. He had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red. Doodle! Doodle! I cried, shaking him, but there was no answer but the ropy rain. He say very awkwardly, with his head thrown far back, making his vermilion neck appear unusually long and slim. His little legs, bent sharply at the knees, had never before seemed so fragile, so thin. I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar.
"Doodle!" I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain.

4. The Ibis Doodle Directions:
Using the extracted paragraphs, pull out specific words, phrases or sentences that show how the Ibis and Doodle are alike
Symbol:
Something that stands or represents something else.
The Ibis
Doodle

5. Exit: Why does Doodle have to die? (why did the author make that choice?)
On your post-it note, think of one reason the author chose to make Doodle die in the story.
When directed, add your post-it to the back board.

6. Happy Tuesday: Please do the following on your BW 5 paper:

7. More Literary Terms Metaphor Climax Resolution Hyperbole Rising Action
Setting
Point of View
Personification
Rising Action
More Literary Terms
Plot
Resolution
Falling Action
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Allusion
Characterization
Simile
Conflict
Theme
Figurative Language
Motif
Situational Irony

8. Style
Suspense
Mood
Theme

9. Style
“The Most Dangerous Game”: use of semicolons
Example:
Definition:
The particular way in which a piece of literature is written
Style is not what is said, but how it is said

10. Suspense
“The Most Dangerous Game”: When Rainsford steps out from behind the curtain
Example:
Definition:
Excitement or tension that readers feel as they read
“On the edge of your seat”…

11. Mood
Definition:
The feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader
Ex: Dread, horror, humorous, romantic…
“The Most Dangerous Game”: Tense, Eeiry
Example:

12. Theme
Definition:
The main idea, the message, the life lesson of the story
Not directly stated, but must be inferred
“The Scarlet Ibis” = Pride can be wonderful or terrible depending on your intentions.
Example:

13. Edgar Allen Poe

14. Edgar Allen Poe

15. Share with class; highlight & label elements
“The Raven”
Directions:
Listen & Read through the poem “The Raven”
Identify Mood, Suspense, Style & Theme
By door: Identify things related to the Theme
Middle by door: Identify Mood elements
Middle by window: Identify Suspense elements
4) By window: Identify Style elements
Share with class; highlight & label elements
Theme:
* Message of the story
Mood:
* Feeling or atmosphere
Suspense:
* Excitement or tension
Style:
* Way it is written; How

16. “The Raven”
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more.“
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore,.
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore,
Nameless here forevermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me---filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
" 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door,
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
This it is, and nothing more."
Theme:
Message of the story
Mood:
Feeling or atmosphere
Suspense:
Excitement or tension
Style:
Way it is written; How

17. “The Raven” Theme: Message of the story Mood: Feeling or atmosphere
Suspense: Excitement or tension Style: Way it is written; How

18. “The Raven” (Tiny Toons!)

19. Please copy the following on your BW 5 paper:
Happy Wednesday…
Please copy the following on your BW 5 paper:
Sentence Fragment: an incomplete sentence
missing the subject or missing the verb
Ex: Driving in the city during rush hour.
Fix:
Ex: A large Elm tree that was shattered by lightening.

20. Please copy the following into your WNB:
Happy Wednesday…
Please copy the following into your WNB:
Sentence Fragment: an incomplete sentence
missing the subject or missing the verb
Ex: Driving in the city during rush hour.
Fix: The man was driving in the city during rush hour. (add subject)
Ex: A large Elm tree that was shattered by lightening.
Fix: A large Elm tree that was shattered by lightening fell on the house.
(add verb phrase)

21. Degrees of Evil Read through the list of TRUE events of evil
Rank them 1 through 12
1 = most evil
12 = least evil
Justify your ranking of #1 and #12…
I ranked _______ as the most evil because ________________. I ranked ____________ as the least evil because ________________.

22. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe
“I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.”

23. Please copy the following on your BW 5 paper:
Happy Thursday…
Please copy the following on your BW 5 paper:
Sentence Fragment: an incomplete sentence
missing the subject or missing the verb
Ex:. PHHS offers many science classes. Such as Biology, Chemistry, and
Physics.
Fix:
Ex: I need to find a new roommate. Because the one I have now isn’t
working out too well.

24. Please copy the following on your BW 5 paper:
Happy Thursday…
Please copy the following on your BW 5 paper:
Sentence Fragment: an incomplete sentence
missing the subject or missing the verb
Ex: PHHS offers many science classes. Such as Biology, Chemistry, and
Physics.
Fix: PHHS offers many science classes, such as Biology, Chemistry…
Ex: I need to find a new roommate. Because the one I have now isn’t
working out too well.
Fix: I need to find a new roommate because the one I have…

25. Today’s Work: Part one: * Independent Reading for 20 minutes
* Novel Response
On index card:
1) List the characters in your novel
2) Give a description of each of your characters
3) Explain how the characters are related or how
the interact
Part two:
* “The Cask of Amontillado” work
* Complete all: Insult, Soundtrack, Scene

26. ELA 9 Vocab 1:4 Example Word POS Def. 1 Preclude V
To make possible by taking measures; to prevent 2
Impunity N
Freedom from punishment, penalty or harm 3
Virtuoso
ADJ
Characteristic of a person with masterly knowledge or skill 4
Accost
To approach or speak to in an aggressive or hostile manner 5
Repose
To lie dead or at rest 6
Termination
The end of something; limit or edge 7
Fetter
To restrain with chairs or shackles 8
Implore
To beg; to earnestly ask for 9
Subside
To lessen; to become less agitated or active 10
Destined
Determined beforehand; fated

27. “The Cask of Amontillado” Follow-up
Part 1: Poe’s Sinister Style
Part 2: Revenge Quotes
Part 3: Examples of Mood
Part 4: Examples of Suspense
Directions:
In groups of 3 work together to complete each task
* Turn in before the end of the hour