English English-Sept. 15

Freshmen

Agenda

• DOL• Tone/Mood• Read The Raven• Watch Clip• Do questions with partner• Homework

DOL There car would not start irregardless of

what they tried they finally beeped youre friend I think.

Wasnt that a great softball game we seen with Colette and Lou your friends.

Hilarious:amusement::______:joyYear:century:: cent:________

Homework

• R-Role• A-Audience• F-Format• T-Topic

Example: R- ant, A- young boy, F- verbal plea, T- convincing the boy not to step on you.

Homework assignment

• Role-Fortunato• Audience-The other party goers• Format-story follow Poe’s example.

(At least one page)• Topic-Why you didn’t deserve what

happened to you.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Known for his mystery stories.• One of the first short story

writers.• Considered a part of the

Romantic Movement.

Tone/Mood

• ToneThe author’s attitude, stated or implied, toward a subject. Some possible attitudes are pessimism, optimism, earnestness, seriousness, bitterness, humorous, and joyful. An author’s tone can be revealed through choice of words and details.

• Mood The climate of  feeling in a literary work. The choice of setting, objects, details, images, and words all contribute towards creating a specific mood. For example, an author may create a mood of mystery around a character or setting but may treat that character or setting in an ironic, serious, or humorous tone

The Raven

Focus on word choice (tone)First line:Once upon a midnight dreary

What are 3 things you think of when you hear the word dreary?

Who is Lenore?

Why do you think Poe chose to use a raven in this poem as opposed to, for example, a parrot or sparrow?

What, according to the second stanza, is the speaker trying to accomplish by reading “forgotten lore”?

When he peers into the darkness and sees nothing, who does the speaker initially imagine may be trying to contact

him?

What does the narrator mean when, in the eleventh stanza, he says of the raven, “Doubtless...what it utters is its only

stock and store,/Caught from some unhappy master”?

Describe the narrator’s state at the end of the poem.

Why do you think “The Raven” is such a famous poem? Be specific.

Homework:

• Write your own story with the first line:

Once upon a midnight dreary…

Like Poe, focus on creating creepy images.