1. Three Skeleton Key By: George G. Toudoze
First appeared in Esquire Magazine in January 1937.

2. George G. Toudoze
Born in France, George had many interests….he was a playwright, an essayist, and an illustrator. He also had a great interest in the sea and worked on a history of the French Navy

3. SETTING
Background: This story takes place in a lighthouse “newly built off the coast of Guiana”. French Guiana is a non-souvereign overseas département of France, located on the Caribbean coast of South America. Settled by the French in 1604, French Guiana was the site of a notorious penal settlements until 1951.

4. LIGHTHOUSE
For many people, lighthouses represent more than simple aids to navigation. The sight of a lighthouse often conjures up visions of shipwrecks, great storms, brave acts of courage, adventure, and the isolation of some remote lighthouse station. They revive the stories of times past when lighthouses guided fishermen safely back home despite the treacherous storms, fogs, and other dangers encountered by those making their living from the sea.

5. 1st Person Narrator— Name never stated
Characters
1st Person Narrator— Name never stated
Itchoua – a Basque –from the Pyrenees, a mountain range in France and Spain
LeGleo- from Brittany, a region of Northern France

6. VOCABULARY Phosphorescent glowing Hordes (n.) large moving crowd
Receding (v.) moving back
Fathom (v.) understand
Edible (adj.) fit to be eaten
Derisive (adj.) scornful and ridiculing

7. JARGON The special terminology for an activity or a group.
Flying Dutchman a fable
Derelict an abandoned ship
Yards a rod that supports the sails
Poop back deck of a boat
Smack here, small sailboat
Glasses binoculars
Flotilla small fleet of boats

8. SUSPENSE
Suspense is the uncertainty or anxiety that we feel about what will happen next in a story.

9. Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is the use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the story. Foreshadowing often heightens suspense.

10. The Flying Dutchman
A fabled (no one knows for sure) Dutch ghost ship whose captain is said to be condemned to sail the seas until Judgement Day…If you see the Flying Dutchman it is supposed to bring bad luck!

11. Be prepared to identify the events leading up to the climax
Climax: The point in which the main conflict is resolved one way or the other.
Day 11
Be prepared to identify the events leading up to the climax
Exposition: Characters, Setting, Main Conflict
Day 1 Three Skeleton Key

12. Language that appeals to the senses
IMAGERY
Language that appeals to the senses

13. When you finish reading...
4 sounds you would hear…
4 sights you would see
4 odors you would smell
4 images you could almost touch or feel
Identify IMAGERY