Tuesday, March 19

Objective: SWBAT identify examples of irony from a story and explain how the irony makes the story more suspenseful and interesting.  SWBAT examine connections between a fictional story and a real life story.

Do-Now: 1) Describe what you can do to preclude yourself from getting a cold.

2) Describe a time in your life when someone gave you impunity instead of punishing you.

3) In your opinion, what type of retribution should a student receive for coming late to school?

4) Describe a natural disaster that caused great immolation.

5) Describe a connoisseurship you have. 

Today: 1) Gun Control Essay : Review Guidelines and Grading Rubric

2) Review the THREE Main Types of Irony and First Person Narrator.

3) Class will read "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe, looking for examples of irony.

4) Class will read a news article connecting to "The Tell-Tale Heart" about a man who confessed to a girl's murder.  How does this relate to the story we just read?

Exit Slip: Describe how the irony in "The Tell-Tale Heart" made the story more suspenseful and interesting.

Homework: Vocabulary Quiz #3 on FRIDAY, March 22.  Essay on Gun Control due MONDAY, April 1.