9 Honors 10/26-10/30

1.
R+ R (20 Mins)
 5-Minute Quick Write:

Is Revenge Ever
Justified?
 AOW Class Discussion-
Revenge
● In your breakout rooms, discuss what you
wrote for your quick write
● Our next short story is
called “The Cask of
Amontillado” by Edgar
Allan Poe

● What might you know

about Poe?
➔ Birth

➔ Death

➔ Famous Works

➔ Marriage

➔ Other/Misc.
 Setting
● Setting is the time and place of a story’s
action.
○ The setting often reveals information
about the characters’ lives, their
occupations, and their beliefs
○ Setting can also create conflict for the
characters and affect the plot
 Imagery
● Imagery consists of descriptive
words and phrases that recreate
sensory experiences for the reader’s
imagination to understand a scene
■ Sight
■ Hearing
■ Smell
■ Taste
■ touch
 Mood
● Mood is the atmosphere an author
creates for a story.
○ Writers use imagery and setting details to
create the mood
○ Whether it is pleasant, suspenseful, or
mysterious, a story’s mood can affect the
reader’s emotional reaction to the
characters and events
 Irony
Verbal Irony-(Sarcasm)
Dramatic Irony :

Situational Irony-
(Unexpected) Edgar Allan Poe
Dramatic Irony
“
. (“The
Necklace”)
 Dramatic Irony
● Example #1
Snow White eating the poison apple: We know the queen
poisoned the apple, but Snow White does not. We also
know the old lady is the queen in disguise but Snow
White does not.
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJG6Yu09KOc
 Dramatic Irony
● Example #2
Michael Myers in “Halloween”. We as the audience know that
Michael is a dangerous murderer. Since it is Halloween night,
no one out trick or treating thinks anything is wrong with
him because he is wearing a mask and people think it is a
costume. We however know he is dangerous and evil.
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy2kMtJa2q8
○ Stop at 50 seconds
 Lit Terms
● Setting
● Imagery
● Sensory Imagery
● Mood
● Irony
● Verbal Irony
● Dramatic Irony
 Vocabulary
● preclude
● impunity
● immolation
● abscond
● repose
● termination
● subside
● aperture
 Due Dates for Homework
★ Do NOT read the story yet
★ Lit Terms and Vocab Due Tuesday
(10/27) at 11:59pm
★ No AoW this week because...one new
choice Kelly Gallagher AoW for +10
points EC due 11/3 by 11:59 pm
Friday 10/30 and Monday 11/2
R+R 20 MINS
 What is THEME?
● THEME IS
○ The central, underlying, and controlling idea of insight of a work
of literature
○ The idea the writer wishes to convey about the subject-the
writer’s view of the world or a revelation about human nature
● THEME IS NOT
○ Expressed in a single word
○ The purpose of a work
○ The moral
○ The conflict
● Title
More Clues to Theme
○ What ideas does it highlight?
● Plot and Conflict
○ What conflicts do the characters face and how are they
resolved?
● Important Statements
○ What ideas do these statements emphasize?
● Characters
○ What lessons do they learn?
● Setting
○ What might the setting represent?
● Symbols
○ What ideas do they communicate?
 How to Identify Theme in 5 Steps
1. Summarize the plot by writing a one-sentence description for the
exposition, the conflict, the rising action, the climax, the falling
action, and the resolution.
2. Identify the subject of the work.
3. Identify the insight or truth that was learned about the subject.
a. How did the protagonist change?
b. What lesson did the protagonist learn from the resolution of the
conflict?
4. State how the plot presents the primary insight or truth about the
subject.
5. Write one or more generalized, declarative sentences that state
what was learned and how it was learned.
 What is a Symbol?
● A symbol is a person, place, object, or activity that
stands for something beyond itself.
○ EX: Star on flag stands for a state
○ EX: White dove stands for peace

● A symbol is a CONCRETE NOUN that stands for an

ABSTRACT NOUN
○ EX: Necklace is a symbol for “status, happiness”
 How to Identify a Symbol in 5 Steps
1. Identify the Symbol
a. Is a certain object, person, place, or activity described in detail?
2. Think about the symbol in context
a. How does a symbol relate to what is happening in the action?
b. How characters react to a symbol
c. What is the symbol’s history?
3. Trace the symbol
a. Does a symbol appear several times? Each time it appears
should provide more detail and understanding.
4. Use what you know
a. Symbols need deeper meaning from your knowledge and
experience
5. Decide what the symbol means
Lets Practice!!

I’ll walk you through one with “The Most

Dangerous Game”

Now you try with “The Necklace”

Pixar Short “La Luna”
https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=vbuq7w3
ZDUQ
 Symbols and Themes in La Luna
● In breakout rooms, practice identifying
theme and symbol
● Use the 5 step system to identify theme
● Remember theme clues
● Use the 5 step system to identify symbol
● We will come back and discuss as a class
● 2nd Hour In Class
● Themes
○ Originality and coming up with you own way of doing
things is important
○ You need to prove yourself in order for people to take
you seriously
○ Find your own way of doing things and what works best
for you
● Symbols
○ Hat- Individuality
○ Tools- Doing it your own way
○ Big Star- Problem that can’t be solved using other
peoples’ methods
● 2nd Hour Zoom
● Themes
○ It is important to find your own way in life, not just follow the path
that other people made for you
○ Try new things even if it’s different than what you have done in the
past
○ If you have a problem, try looking at it through a new lens to solve it
○ Think outside of the box to solve your problems.
○ The choices you make are yours and not anyone else’s.
● Symbols
○ Giant Star- Finding your own way/thinking outside of the box
○ Giant Star- Problem /Hammer- solution
○ Music w the Moon- Bliss/Happiness
○
● 6 Hour in Class
● Themes:
○ Look on the brighter side of things
○ Think outside of the box
○ Spend time in the moment and don’t worry about the past
○ Don’t be afraid to do things your own way

● Symbols
○ Big Star- Problem
○ Hat- People can do the same things differently, becoming an
adult, becoming his own person
○ Brooms/Hammer/Rake- You can have your ideas, being an
individual
○ Stars-Family? (pushing them away, little boy likes them)
6 Hour- Zoom
Themes:
● Break the mold of the old ways
● Don’t be afraid to present a new idea
● Embrace yourself- Find what you like
● Try new things
● Be your own person
Symbols:
● Cap/Hat-Following his own path
● Hammer-New ideas/New ways
● stars- hope, shining brighter
●
5 Hour- Zoom
Themes
● Compromise can get things done faster than fighting and you will reach the same
solution
● Doing things the traditional way isn’t always the right way to do it
● Find your own groove

Symbols
● Son- compromise
● Giant star- Him finding his own way
● Hat-Breaking tradition, finding his own way
● Rake- Doing things his own way
●
5 Hour- In Class
Themes in La Luna:
● Doing things your own way and not following what
others do
● Sometimes you should try and express your own ideas
● Your world’s beauty is what you make it to be
● Arguing doesn’t lead to a solution

Symbols in La Luna:
● Big star--Problem
● Boy’s Hat/Brooms-Arguing over choices and then he got
to do his own thing
● Hat-Becoming an adult
● Hat- Generation
● Hat- People can do the same things differently
 Symbol Practice
Your Family’s Coat of Arms?