Thursday, November 14

Monday, November 18 ~ Short Story 3: The Masque of the Red Death

WORD PARTS
Prefixes
  • psyche - mind, soul
  • publicus - people
Roots
  • dura - hard, lasting
  • dynam - power

PROVERB

SHORT STORIES
Story #3: The Masque of the Red Death 
  • EQ: What is allegory?
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Journal 34

A. LIT NOTES ~ Add these definitions to your journals section.
Read this one out loud: "The Masque of the Red Death " by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Discuss: Who was Poe? What other works from Poe have you read?
B. SAT Vocab:
  1. profuse - plentiful
  2. sagacious - wise
  3. voluptuous - characterized with luxury or pleasure
  4. contagion - the spreading of disease
  5. imperial - majestic
  6. emanating - coming forth
  7. sedate - calm; quiet
  8. pervaded - spread throughout
  9. piquancy - a pleasantly sharp or appetizing flavor
  10. phantasm - a figment of the imagination; an illusion
  11. cessation - ceasing or stopping
  12. disapprobation - strong disapproval, usually on moral grounds
  13. propriety - quality of being proper
  14. tangible - something that can be touched
  15. impetuosity - impulsive or rash 
C. Google search: What are the symptoms of the pneumonic plague?
D. Consider the Allegory feature. Define as many symbols as you can, bullet-point style. What is the "story below the surface" if you translate each symbol? Include at least these:

  • Prince Prospero
  • the abbey
  • the gate
  • the masquerade & costumes
  • the music that stops
  • the ebony clock 
  • TIME
  • the winding hallway
  • all the different colors of rooms
  • the intruder

E. Analysis TIEDIED Paragraph: The rich and powerful might build walls around their sprawling estates to block out the upsetting parts of life. What is Poe proving about life, no matter what one's social class may be? 

HW: Complete the story and Journal 34. Don't look up the answers to the allegory!!! Trust yourself as a careful reader.
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