College Prep - 12
- Viewed Slideshow: myth defines, myth's four functions, stages of the Hero Journey.
- Discussion
- HW handout: "Just Drawn that Way", by Michael Arthur
- Read in terms of Campbell's work and the slideshow.
- Essay drafts due tomorrow for peer review.
Grade 10
- Students were told that work missed due to absence have 5 school days to be handed in before grade becomes a zero. It is the student's responsibility to ask for missed work.
- Collected HW.
- Went over Lit. Rev. Outline for Masque:
"Masque of the Red Death"
By Edgar Allen Poe
The Big Four
Characters: Prince Prospero, Death, all guests
Theme: Death is unavoidable
Plot Summary: Prospero locks his friends and himself in a palace to avoid a plague; he throws a masque; people freak when the clock chimes, mysterious figure arrives at midnight, everyone follows him into the black room, and dies
Setting: night, in a palace,
Plot Breakdown:
Motivating factor: avoiding the Red Death
Conflict: Man vs. Death
Complication: the Clock, which reminds people of time passing, Death arrives to party
Suspense: is built by description of setting, reads like a nightmare
Climax: Starts at the stroke of midnight
Denouement: everybody dies
Analytical Elements:
POV: 3rd person
Techniques: intense, symbolic imagery, irony, allegory- Intro "The Open Window" by Saki.
- Reading for character development. Read story and highlight or underline clues to each character's nature. Finish for HW.
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