Tuesday, March 4

Objective: Students will be able to evaluate instances of situational and dramatic irony in a story in order to determine whether the irony is being used effectively.  Students will be able to evaluate the first-person narration in a story in order to determine if the narrator is unreliable.

Do-Now: 

Copy New Vocab Words on pg. 172: precluded, impunity, retribution, immolation, connoisseurship, impose, recoiling, endeavored, obstinate, succession

Today: 1) Quiz on Subjects/Verbs

2) Note-taking: Dramatic Irony: When we know something someone in the story doesn't know.  Dramatic irony is used to create suspense.

First-Person Narrator: Someone who is a character in the story and tells what happens from his/her point of view.  WARNING: First-Person narrators can be unreliable!  (You can't believe everything they tell you.)

3) Class will read "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Exit Slip: Describe the situational irony in the ending of "The Tell-Tale Heart."  Describe the dramatic irony in "The Tell-Tale Heart."  How can the story's narrator be viewed as unreliable?  If the story were  told by an omniscient narrator, what information might we learn about the narrator?

Homework: Vocabulary Quiz #3 on Monday, March 10!!!