March 5 - 9

How do we make sense of the darkness in humanity?

Friday
1. Time to work on your choice of 2 other short stories: The Killers, The Lottery, War, Shooting an Elephant, Just Lather, That's All, The Sniper.
2. Complete your Graphic Organizer for the 2 stories.
3. The final draft of your synthesis essay is due. I will begin evaluating them on Saturday. Please put your good copy above or below the draft. Please don't erase/delete the draft or the draft comments.

 Thursday

 1. Complete work on The Cask of the Amontillado: Hypothes.is & your graphic organizer.
2. You have 2 more short stories to read after The Cask: ideally"The Killers" and a story of your choosing, but you have the freedom to choose the next two stories from this list: The Killers, The Lottery, War, Shooting an Elephant, Just Lather, That's All, The Sniper.

 "The Sniper" by O'Flaherty
https://www.edco.ie/_fileupload/The%20Sniper%20-%20By%20Liam%20O%20Flaherty.pdf

 "The Lottery" by Jackson
https://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf

 "Just Lather, That's All" by Tellez 
http://fwjohnsoncollegiate.rbe.sk.ca/sites/johnson/files/Just%20Lather%20that's%20all.pdf

"Shooting an Elephant" by   Orwell 

https://hilo.hawaii.edu/~tbelt/Pols360-S08-Reading-ShootingAnElephant.pdf 
"War" by Pirandello 
https://mscurlettsclassroom.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012184/war_by_luigi_pirandello.pdf 


"The Killers" 
by Hemingway 

http://www00.unibg.it/dati/corsi/3410/20235-The%20Killers%20by%20Ernest%20Hemingway.pdf
Wednesday
1. The Cask of the Amontillado
https://via.hypothes.is/https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the_cask_of_amontillado.pdf
2. Annotate during reading: foreshadowing, irony, and imagery, particularly in the final section of the story. 
3. Graphic organizer, column 3: Does Montresor believe his actions are evil?  
Tuesday

Join hypothesis group:
https://hypothes.is/groups/5oBJKGnv/en12spring18


To install the Chrome extension for Hypothesis: https://web.hypothes.is/quick-start-guide/v


To get back to the story The Destructors
https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/Graham%20Greene.htm

1. Complete reading and marking-up (annotating) the story as a class: "The Destructors"- annotate (post insights related to plot, character, setting, author's techniques (figurative language, imagery, tone, point of view, symbolism etc). REMEMBER: analysis, questions, connections, evaluations and conclusions about the story.

Monday
Due date for the final draft of you synthesis essay: Friday, March 9.
1. Tidy-up loose ends from Inquiry 1, including a "selfrie".
2. Introduction to Inquiry #2 & the graphic organizer.
3. Short story: "The Destructors" by Graham Greene: https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/Graham%20Greene.htm

Tag: english12spring2018
To install the Chrome extension for Hypothesis: https://web.hypothes.is/quick-start-guide/v




For story background: https://www.mrquerino.com/uploads/5/2/7/8/52783407/the_destructors.pdf

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