1. DO NOW Tell a quick story using as many vocab words as possible. Extra points for similes, metaphors and personification.

2. Vocab AFFLICTED – affected by; suffering from CONCEALING – hiding REPRESSION – holding back emotions, suppressing wants, wishes or rights WILD ABANDONMENT – wildness, release of control SUBTLE – faint, barely noticeable ELUSIVE – hard to capture, here one minute, gone the next TUMULTUOSULY – raising a great clatter or commotion; noisily TRIVIAL – unimportant or small ASSERTION – sticking up for oneself and one’s rights IMPLORING - begging

3. Story of an Hour

4. Louise Mallard ACTIONSDIALOGUEQUALITIESMOTIVES - cried with wild abandonment over her husband’s death - locked herself in her room - starred out her window at the “new life” of spring - died of heart disease—of joy that kills - “Free, free free” - “Free! Body and soul free!” - “I’m not making myself ill” - heart trouble - vacant stare and terror left her body as she cried out “free” - triumph in her eyes - she had loved him— sometimes - drinking the elixir of life through the open window Louise Mallard is a woman who is finally freed from her unhappy marriage. Just as she learns of her husband’s death, she weeps over her newly found freedom but when he arrives home, she falls dead from the shock of it all.

5. House on Mango Street Characterization and Talk Back Stations Complete "Geraldo No Last Name "