Agenda for November 20th to 22nd Mr. Burns English 11

Monday, November 20th, 2017 Discuss what was read last week. Text dependent questions over pages 403 to 408.  Independent Reading Project: Read/Annotate the article Mob Mentality: The Brain Suppresses Personal Moral Code When In Groups. Due Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017.  Discussion Questions Explain mood and how it's created by the author's tone.  Vocabulary to know before we read Audio of The Fall of House of Usher pages 408 to 413

Read and Annotate Article To keep in mind as you read and annotate: What are the causes of mob mentality and explain the effects of the phenomena on society as a whole? Support your argument with evidence from the text. This article can be used on the Final Writing Exam which will be December 6 and 7. December 6th: 2nd 6th Periods December 7th: 1st and 5th Periods

Text Dependent Questions pg. 404-408 1. Poe begins his personification of the House of Usher when he has the narrator observe a certain detail of the house when he first sees it. What is it? 2. What is the narrator's relationship to Roderick Usher?  3. What did Roderick Usher write about in the letter to the narrator?  Write your answers in notebook and support your answers with evidence from the story. 

Discussion Questions Imagine yourself as the narrator and you are walking up into a dilapidated, haunted house. Would you have been brave enough to walk up to the house? How would you feel upon looking at this house?  Think of a time when you walked into a dilapidated haunted house or walked into an unsafe or unfamiliar house before how did you feel and why? 

Author's Tone Tone is similar to an author's "tone of voice." It is the attitude that the author has toward his or her readers. Examples of tone could be serious, playful, mocking, and so forth. Pinpoint the tone Poe is using in this piece.  On a new piece of paper in your notebook. Choose what you believe is the "mood" of the piece, and write it in the center of their paper. Like an idea web, you will circle the mood and create 10 bubbles stems from that center circle. Fill in 5 of those bubbles with specific words Poe has used thus far to create that mood. 

Tuesday, November 21st, 2017 Independent Reading Project: Read/Annotate the article Mob Mentality: The Brain Suppresses Personal Moral Code When In Groups. Due Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017.  Text-Dependent Questions Tension and Suspense Quotations Assignment Finish The Fall of the House of Usher Notebook check tomorrow! Text dependent questions Idea web (5 bubbles stems filled out) Tension and Suspense Quotations  Read/Annotated Mob Mentality Article

Text-Dependent Questions 408-412 1. What did Roderick Usher fear and why did he fear the decease of lady Madeline? Page 409 2. What is afflicting Madeline Usher on page 410? 3. The narrator describes a painting on page 412 that Roderick Usher did. What is the painting of?  Write your answer in your own words and support your answer with evidence from the text. (Poe Line #)

Suspense and Tension Quotations Directions: describe what that line makes you think of, how it makes you feel, and how it creates tension or suspense. 1. "Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth." It makes me think of... It makes me feel like... It creates tension or suspense by... 2. "I shall ever bear about me a memory of the many solemn hours I thus spent alone with the master of The House of Usher." Write your responses in your notebook.  Tension-mental or emotional strain Suspense-a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.

Thug Notes: The Fall of the House of Usher

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 Notebook check while watching The Fall of the House of Usher animated movie (15 minutes) Put your signature on the rubric. I will call you up alphabetically to check your notebook and to check if you read and annotated the Mob Mentality article. 16 points for Notebook check 10 points for Reading/Annotating article. 0 if you did not read/annotate.  Jeopardy/Trashketball?

The Fall of the House of Usher animated movie