Transcript Dark Romanticism Bellringer #1 11/14/12

Dark Romanticism Bellringer #1
11/14/12
Directions: Use the Dark Romanticism book guide
to answer these questions.
1. How did Gothic writers differ from romantic
writers?
2. Who was the master of the Gothic form in
America? What stories by this author have you
read?
Today’s Target: I can identify the historical context
and characteristics of the Dark Romantic era.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #2
11/15/12
Directions: Use the Dark Romanticism notes and
your Poe Biography notes to answer the following
questions.
1. What are the five characteristics of Dark
Romanticism?
2. Why was Poe fated or destined to be a Dark
Romantic writer?
Today’s Target: I can identify the characteristics of the
Dark Romantic era in a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #3
11/16/12
1. How did Prince Prospero decorate the rooms in
the abbey for the masquerade?
2. What was unusual about the windows in the
seventh apartment?
3. What was the giant clock made out of?
4. What happens when the clock chimes?
Today’s Target: I can identify the characteristics of the
Dark Romantic era in a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #4
11/19/12
1. Who arrives at the masquerade at midnight?
2. Why is Prince Prospero mad at this figure?
3. What happened to Prince Prospero?
4. What is ironic about Prince Prospero’s party?
Today’s Target: I can identify diction and its affects on
the mood and tone of a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #5
11/20/12
Complete the chart below in your bellringer section:
Word
Monosyllabic
or
Polysyllabic
Formal or
Informal/
Archaic or
Colloquial
Denotative
Meaning
Connotative
Meanings
Euphonious
or
Cacophonous
1. death
2. madman
****You don’t have to label the chart: just put the
answers in your bellringer.
Today’s Target: I can identify diction and its affects on
the mood and tone of a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #6
11/26/12
Directions: Get out your notes on Theme Topic v.
Theme Statement. Use the list of 101 common
theme topics to help you answer the question
below.
1. List four theme topics that you think can be found
in “The Masque of the Red Death.”
Today’s Target: I understand how the author’s
choice of details support theme in a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #7
11/27/12
Directions: Get out your notes on Theme Topic v.
Theme Statement. Use these notes to help you
answer the following question.
1. Explain the difference between a theme topic and
a theme statement.
Today’s Target: I understand how the author’s
choice of details support theme in a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #8 11/28/12
Directions: Evaluate the following theme statements. Decide
if they are acceptable or not and explain why. Use the
following criteria to help you:
 Can you identify the topic?
 Is it a general statement?
 Is there an argument?
1. In The Last of the Mohicans, following intuition over reason
upholds the survival of the characters.
2. In The Last of the Mohicans, the author illustrated the will to
survive and that’s how the story was a success.
3. In The Last of the Mohicans, heroism shows itself through
characters.
Today’s Target: I understand how the author’s choice of
details support theme in a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #9 11/29/12
1. What does a 3.8 paragraph and an extended
paragraph (what you wrote yesterday) have in
common?
2. What is the difference between these two
paragraphs?
Today’s Target: I can identify diction and its affects
on the mood and tone of a text, and I can
identify Dark Romanticism characteristics.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #10
11/30/12
1. What did the narrator do to the cat after
returning home intoxicated one night (the first
time)? Why did he do this?
2. What are the reasons the narrator gives for
hanging Pluto?
3. List one characteristic of Dark Romanticism from
“The Black Cat.”
Today’s Target: I can identify diction and its affects
on the mood and tone of a text, and I can
identify Dark Romanticism characteristics.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #11
12/3/12
1. What did the narrator do to his wife in the cellar?
Explain how this happened and why it happened.
2. How did he conceal the body?
3. Do you think the narrator regret killing his wife?
Explain why or why not.
Today’s Target: I can identify diction and its affects on
the mood and tone of a text, and I can identify Dark
Romanticism characteristics.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #12
12/4/12
Complete the following chart on your paper. Give an
example of a quote that shows that the narrator is
unreliable. Then explain why you think that
quote shows the unreliability of the narrator.
Example from story
Explanation
1.
2.
Today’s Target: I can identify diction and its affects
on the mood and tone of a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #13
12/5/12
1. Why do you think the narrator of “The Black Cat”
presents so many different moods in one short
story?
Today’s Target: I can identify diction and its affects
on the mood and tone of a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #14
12/6/12
Directions: Open up your literature book to page
516. Read the “Comparing Literature” box and
answer the following questions.
1. William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Truman
Capote wrote in what style of literature?
2. What three traits of this type of literature?
Today’s Target: I can identify diction and its affects
on the mood and tone of a text.
Dark Romanticism Bellringer #15
12/7/12
Directions: Think about “A Rose for Emily.” Use your
knowledge of that story to answer these questions.
1. How do the townspeople feel about Miss Emily?
2. Who is Homer Barron and what eventually happens
to him?
3. Why do you think this story is called “A Rose for
Emily”?
4. In what ways is this story similar in style to those of
Edgar Allan Poe’s? What qualifies it as a Dark
Romantic story?
Today’s Target: I can identify compare and contrast a
story in various mediums.