What Are We Reading?
Quarter 1: We begin the school year with a focus on the short story. Ask us about....
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
...and how plot and characterization is created in this suspenseful story. Poor Fortunato does not understand how or why Montresor smiles.
...How does an unreliable narrator influence our understanding of the story? How does irony add to the suspenseful mood?
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
...and how setting enhances this conflict of man versus man story. Are the weak here to provide pleasure for the strong? Are there only two types of people: the hunters and the huntees?
"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier
...and what motifs reinforce the danger of animals towards humans who are unprepared. How does Alfred Hitchcock keep the suspense and theme in his version of The Birds? How does survival lead to actualization (looking at Maslow's hierarchy of needs)?
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"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
...and how plot and characterization is created in this suspenseful story. Poor Fortunato does not understand how or why Montresor smiles.
...How does an unreliable narrator influence our understanding of the story? How does irony add to the suspenseful mood?
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
...and how setting enhances this conflict of man versus man story. Are the weak here to provide pleasure for the strong? Are there only two types of people: the hunters and the huntees?
"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier
...and what motifs reinforce the danger of animals towards humans who are unprepared. How does Alfred Hitchcock keep the suspense and theme in his version of The Birds? How does survival lead to actualization (looking at Maslow's hierarchy of needs)?
Also ask us about...
Cerca
Newsela
Readworks
Pearson Online