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Get a textbook from the shelf.Have a sheet of loose leave out on

your desk.

Warm-up (in your notebook) Have you ever sought revenge

against someone who wronged you? Does revenge solve the problem? Explain.

What are we doing today?

Students will read and evaluate major plot events in the story The Cask of Amontillado in order to make inferences about characters and character actions.

The Cask of

Amontillado -Setting-Vocab-Purpose for Reading

Setting: Italian Carnival

Carnival is a secular holiday but it involves the Christian observance of lent.

Lent is a forty-five period of fasting before Easter.

Carni/val = “flesh” (meat) + Farewell

Traditionally, people abstained from eating meat during lent. However, modern fasting often involves giving up something one enjoys.

Carnival

Carnival is a time of excess and indulgence. Excessive drinking

and eating is common at Carnival.

People often wear masquerade style costumes as part of the festivities.

The combination of alcohol and masks tends to create an atmosphere where people tend to let down their inhibitions.

How might you describe the mood of Carnival or Mardi Gras just based on these pictures?

The Cask of Amontillado

• Cask =A large barrel like container, used for storing liquids, typically alcoholic drinks.

Amontillado = A Spanish wine.

Catacombs- underground burial grounds.

-Crypt? Niche?

Mason – A stone worker.

Trowel- A small flat tool used to spread mortar.

Language and Diction

Written in 1846. Use your text tools!

Footnotes Words to Know Re-read if necessary

ClassworkReading for Comprehension

The Cask of Amontillado p.209 While you are reading:

Write a 2-3 sentence summary of plot events at the end of each column.

After reading: Be prepared for a group discussion.

IF YOU FINISH EARLY…study your vocab words.

Column 1: Redressed = remedy or set right. Retribution = revenge; punishment that is deserved.

“A wrong is unredressed (not remedied) when retribution (revenge) over takes its redresser (the one seeking revenge)” (209).

>Revenge is not as sweet if the one seeking revenge becomes obsessed with revenge. Does Montressor become obsessed with revenge?

The Cask of AmontilladoBy Edgar Allan Poe

Column 1:Fortunado has offended the narrator so deeply, that the narrator has spent a long period of time plotting his revenge against Fortunado. In order to consummate his revenge, the narrator has created two conditions under which this revenge must take place, which are…What terms does Montressor set up for his revenge? 1.)2.)

Turn and Talk – Discuss your notes with your neighbor.

Class Discussion

In literature, Montressor would be called an unreliable narrator. Why would Montressor be considered unreliable?

Closer

Some readers feel that Montressor suffers for his crime, feeling haunted by guilt. Others see him as a criminal for seeming to gloat about his evil act. What do you think will happen to Montressor?

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Get a textbook from the shelf.Pick up a handout from the front

desk.Copy your homework. Have out your Cask of Amontillado

notes.

Warm-up

Listen to the following sound clips. What emotional reaction does the

music produce? How do you feel while you are

listening to the music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LZcMv0H1bIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSRm80WzZk

What are we doing today?

Students will analyze literary and stylistic elements in the short story The Cask of Amontillado in order to determine how these elements create mood.

What is mood?

Click icon to add picture Mood: The feeling or

atmosphere the writer creates for the reader.

What are some words that describe mood?

What is the effect of mood in literature?

Authors use mood to create an experience for the reader. Mood allows the reader to connect to the

text on an emotional level. Builds a bond between reader,

characters, and events in the text. – Brings the reader into the text.

Helps reinforce the author’s purpose

How do writers create mood?...Style!

Turn and Talk – What are some stylistic elements that create a mood, or emotion, in the text?

Mood in The Cask of Amnotillado1.) Identify the mood on each page

of the story. You may not use the same mood

word twice!

2.) Identify two stylistic elements on that page that create the mood.

3.) Explain the effect the mood has on the story.

What is the mood of the following picture?

What are some ways directors create mood in film?

What is the mood in the following clip?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBQYAE-pMk (1:30-5:55)

The Cask of Amontillado Film version

1.) Identify the mood of a scene.2.) Identify the stylistic element that created this mood.3.) Explain the effect of the mood on the scene.

Answer the following questions on a piece of scrap paper.

1.) What is one reason writers create mood in literature, film, etc.

2.) What is the mood in the following situation?

In the disarray of the building evacuation, the little girl was separated from her mother. Incarcerated by the mass of people, the little girl tried desperately to find her way out of the crowed.