Chinese Creation Story / "The Wreck of the Hesperus" / "The Cask of Amontillado"

Grade 12

• Read another version of the Haudenosaunee creation story to the classes. (This is a version told by a personal friend, Kay Olan, Deer Clan, Mohawk.) We compared versions.
• Collected story analyses.
• Reread Chinese creation story: seperate the story into discreet parts, identify individual elements and consider symbolic/metaphoric meaning. Share in groups if time.

Grade 10

• Journal: Recall a memory from when you were young. Write it down as if it were a story.
• Read the intro to Longfellow's, "The Wreck of the Hesperus."
• Discuss the title.
• Read through the poem individually, annotate with particular attention to suspense and foreshadowing.
• Discuss the first two stanzas; identify irony between "wintery sea"of line two and the description of the daughter in the 2nd stanza.

Grade 9

• A Part of the Sky, 5 minutes.
• Journal: same as Grade 10
• Continue Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," middle of first column page 32.