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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.