Core 3 Irony Examples

Situational Irony:

Irony: The popular quote "Nothing is written in stone" is itself, written in stone.

Irony: The beach is no longer hidden because there is a sign pointing to it.

Irony: The board is using a ton of paper to promote paper saving.

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Verbal Irony:

Irony: What she said to that girl was exactly what she said to her earlier.

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Dramatic Irony:

Irony: The love of her life has "exploded"

(died). This happened shortly after she warned him that he should

not love her because she was going to "explode". The word grenade

is just how she referred to herself  because she new her death would

injure to the people around her.

Core 3 Vocab List #3

1. Redeem

Compensate for the faults or bad aspects of (something).: “a disappointing debate redeemed only by an outstanding speech."

2. Disdain

Verb: look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn 
Noun: a feeling of contempt for anything regarded as unworthy; haughty; contempt; scorn

3. Immoderate

not sensible of restrained,excessive” immoderate drinking

4. Askew

not in a straight or level position

5. Perceive

become aware or conscious of something

6. Delicacy

the quality of being delicate

7. Anguish

Severe mental or physical pain of suffering.

8. Coquettish

Flirtatious

Core 3: The Necklace Illustrations

The ball that she goes to

lady once all money is gone

The Necklace

Core 5 Vocab List #2 (REMAINING 3 WORDS)

Dissolution

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: the closing down or dismissal of an assembly, partnership, or official body.

In the Story: “ there were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores with dissolution.” (pg. 45)

Eccentric

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: unconventional and slightly strange.

In the Story: “This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince’s own eccentric yet august taste.” (pg. 45)

Provisioned

Part of Speech: verb

Definition: supply with food, drink, or equipment, especially for a journey.

In the Story: “The abbey was amply provisioned.” (pg. 45)

Core 6 MoRD Notes & Research

The Masque of the red death is set during the time of the red death. During that time the prince has a big masquerade party in the creepy rooms that have a specific color one is green one is glue and one is red. No one goes in the red room because there is creepy grandfather clock and every hour is rings and every body stops dancing but when the ring  stops the start dancing again. When the clock strikes 12 every body dies.

Setting: Time and place

Atmosphere: The mood of the story

Images: When the author is descriptive    

• Who was Edgar Allan Poe?  What genre of writing did he mostly work in?
• Research the theme of MoRD; what point was Poe trying to make?  What's the message?
• Post a summary of your findings on the blog titled "Core # MoRD Context"

Edgar Allen Poe was an American poet, literary critic, editor, and author. He is best known for his mystery stories. He is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre and the emerging of the genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living by writing alone, and that lead to a financially difficult life and career.  

He mostly worked in the Gothic genre, because this appeased the public. his most recurring theme is on questions of death.  

The point that Poe was trying to make was that you can't escape from death.

 The fact that the rooms were arranged from east to west, from sunrise to sunset, and, essentially, from life to death, is extremely symbolic. At midnight, the point at which there is no sunlight, and no life, the Red Death appeared. He traveled from east to west, and when he got to the very end, again, at midnight, the Death began, and Prince Prospero was killed. The theme of the story was fear- from the very first sentence to the final words ( pun intended ) of the story, the reader has a growing sense of fear. Every time the clock strikes, the party-goers are also frozen.

Core 6 Vocab List #2

Dominion:

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: The power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority.

In the Story: “When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and and dames…”

Dauntless:

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: not to be daunted or intimidated; fearless; intrepid; bold

In the Story: ”But, the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.”

Pestilence:

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: A deadly or epidemic disease

In the Story:  “No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.”

Buffoon:

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: a person who amuses other people with tricks, jokes, odd gestures, etc.

In the Story: “There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers…”

Countenance:

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: appearance, especially the look or expression in the face.

In the Story: “ … and produced so wild a look upon the countenances, of those who entered…”

Dissolution: noun

Part of Speech:

Definition: The breaking up of an assembly or organization; dismissal; dispersal. Death; decease.

In the Story: “There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.” page 45

Voluptuous:

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: Full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous   enjoyment.

In the Story: “It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade.” page 46

Emanating: verb

Part of Speech:

Definition: to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin;come forth; originate.

In the Story: “There was no light of any kind emanating from the lamp or candle within the suite of   chambers.”  page 46

Core 3: The Masque of the Red Death

The Red Death 

The Masque of the Red Death is about prince prospero and avoiding the plague of the “Red Death” a twist on the Bubonic Plague also known as the black death.

This is the author Edgar Allen Poe

During the book Prince Prospero throws a party and as soon as the guests arrive they close everything so no red death gets in. Later the clock strikes midnight and everyone freezes. Later in the middle of the dancing they realize someone is there who wasn’t in the beginning. He was dressed in very scary clothes and the Prince is very scared so he runs behind the man with a knife to kill him and he pulls back as soon as the Prince does that the Prince dies.

Poe wrote mostly gothic horror and fiction. The genre of this book is gothic horror with a twist on the black death. The point of this book is that death comes to everyone and you cannot escape it as hard as you try

Poe was a poet and was a very famous poet after he died too. Poe went to UVA but later left school because he was unable to pay for school.
Poe was Born: January 19, 1809, Boston, MA and Died: October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Md

The Green Room

The Room of Death

The Setting Of The Masque of the red death takes place in a castle with many different colored rooms.

The Orange Room

The atmosphere is dark, and creepy, just like many other Edgar Allen Poe poems.

The White Room 

The Violet Room

The Blue Room 

Core 4 Vocab List 2

                                           Vocab List # 2

Dominions

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: The power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority.

In the Story: “When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and and dames…”

Dauntless

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: not to be daunted or intimidated; fearless; intrepid; bold

In the Story: ”But, the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.”

Pestilence

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: A  deadly or epidemic disease

In the Story:  “No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.”

Buffoon

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: a person who amuses other people with tricks, jokes, odd gestures, etc.

In the Story: “There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers…”

Countenance

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: appearance, especially the look or expression in the face.

In the Story: “ … and produced so wild a look upon the countenances, of those who entered…”

Delirious

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: In a state of wild excitement or ecstasy.

In the Story: “There were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions.”

Grotesque

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: having an “odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.

In the Story: “Be sure they were grotesque.”

Ruddier

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: Having a fresh healthy red color.

In the Story: “There flows ruddier laughter…“

Core 4 Setting & Atmosphere Notes

*The Setting of the story The Masque Of The Red Death takes place in a castle that has 7  apartments during the red death in the country of Prince Prospero. The specific setting of the story is during a Masquerade.

*The Atmosphere of the story The Masque Of The Red Death is very creepiness, bleakness, and (like all Edgar Allen Poe stories) death.

*The image created by The Masque Of The Red Death is a country ridden with blood disease that has one prince who had the foresight to build a castle to protect him from people who had it.

Core 3 Masque of the Red Death Vocab

1. Dominion

Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: sovereignty, control
In the story: "When his dominions were half depopulated…"

2. Dauntless

Adjective

 Showing fearlessness and determination
But the Prince of Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.

3. Buffoon

noun

A ridiculous but amusing person,a clown

They were buffoons…..

4. Pestilence

Noun

A fatal epidemic disease,especially bubonic plague...

And while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad.

5. Countenance  

Noun

a persons face or facial expression

the mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat. 

6. Prevailing

Adjective

existing at a particular time; current.: "the unfavorable prevailing economic conditions".

"These windows were of stained glass whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of…"

7. Seclusion

Noun

The state of being private and away from other people

And with these retired too the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.

8. Jest

noun

A thing said or done for amusement

Even with the utterly lost,to whom life and death are equally jests,there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Masque of the Red Death Lit Circles

An illustration for the story by Harry Clarke (1919)

Table #1: Vocab

• Open the Vocab List #2 in your English folder on Drive.
• For the first 5 words: find them in the text and copy the sentence they appear in (include page numbers) 
• Look up parts of speech and definitions for first 5 words
• Choose 3 more words from the text and complete the same task
• Post the complete list on the blog & title "Core # MoRD Vocab"

Table #2: Setting & Atmosphere Notes

• Read the section in front of MoRD in Little Worlds on Setting & Atmosphere
• Create our notes for these terms: give basic definitions for the following:
• Setting (General & Specific)
• Atmosphere
• Imagery

• Then, identify the setting and atmosphere of MoRD
• Post to the blog, title "Core # Setting & Atmosphere Notes"

Table #3: Illustration

• Come up with 3-4 images that capture the essence of the story.
• They must be either created by you (drawn, photographed, etc) -OR- from a free image site like unsplash.com, New Old Stock or via Creative Commons.
• Create a blog post titled "MoRD Illustration: Core #"
• Insert the photos!
• Be sure to give credit in the captions!

Table #4: Context

• Answer the following questions:
• Who was Edgar Allan Poe?  What genre of writing did he mostly work in?
• Research the theme of MoRD; what point was Poe trying to make?  What's the message?
• Post a summary of your findings on the blog titled "Core # MoRD Context"

Creating a Criterion Account

Leonid Pasternak

Criterion is an online writing evaluation software tool.  Basically, it will make writing and revising your work very quick and easy.  I'd like you to set up your accounts so we can begin working in the program by our next class.

Step 1: Read

Read through the following documents:
Quick Access Guide
Beginning Criterion

Step 2: Get Your Access Code

This should be in your email.  If you didn't receive an email from Criterion, please contact me and I can give you the code.  Keep a copy of it accessible while you sign up.

Step 3: Visit the Site

Criterion's web address is criterion.ets.org - Bookmark this page!!  You can also find a link on the menu of this blog.

Step 4: Create Your Account

Following the instructions from the guides above, create a student account using your school email address, and your user name from Veracross.  There will be a space to enter the access code.

Step 5: Log In

Once you are signed up, log in from the main site and check that your username/password work.  Also check that your English class appears on your main page.  If anything doesn't work, please email me.

Plot Notes/Key Terms

Plot     Conflict       -Internal       -External Protagonist Antagonist Exposition Complications Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution

What happens (action of story) Problem of story (protagonist must overcome) Problem within character (ex: making a decision, overcoming fear, illness) Person vs. Self Problem from outside of character (a fight, storm, oppression) Person vs. Person Person vs. Nature                       Red = Antagonist Forces Person vs. Society  Character w/problem - we relate to them, follow the action w/them Force that opposes protagonist (not always a character/person) Opening of story; intro protagonist & setting Small problems that get in the way of protagonist - build tension/suspense Paired w/complications, ramping up of tension/suspense Turning point; conflict resolves; protagonist succeeds or fails Consequences of climax play out; relaxing of tension/suspense Final wrapping up, climax resolves