2. NB: superstition (10 lines)
Are you superstitious? Do you believe in good luck or bad luck? Do you believe that you can bring forth one or the other by your actions? Do you hesitate to walk under a ladder? Do you have a ritual or special item you wear when playing sports?

3. Essential questions
Should you interfere with the powerful forces of fate or destiny?
How do you build suspense in a narrative?

4. Record in Reading section Under Notes Title: Monkey’s Paw
Superstition (n): a widely held belief based on fear and custom and not based on scientific fact.
Amulet (n): charm; brings good luck and protection.
Talisman (n): object thought to have magical powers bestowed by its creator.

5. Classroom Dictionary Entry in Google Classroom (3 Days)
Look up a superstition, amulet, or talisman. Summarize your findings and be sure to include the following along with a photo and MLA citation:
Origin and history
If it is a superstition, describe how it began, where, and why.
If it is an amulet or talisman, be sure to include the power or protection the object provides the owner.
Be prepared to share!

6. Superstitions Holding your breath when passing a cemetery
Black Cat
Friday the 13th
Spilling Salt
Walking under a ladder
Breaking a mirror
TALISMAN/AMULETS
Rabbit’s foot
Horseshoe
Four leaf clover
Scarab
Ankh amulet
Eye of Horus or Ra
Superstitions
Holding your breath when passing a cemetery
Something old, something blue…
The wedding veil protects bride from evil eye
Omamori
Hamsa or Hand of Fatima
Pentacle or pentagram
Agimat
Excalibur
Bloodstones
The Hand of Glory
Knocking on Wood
Opening an umbrella indoors
Breaking a wishbone
Trick or treat on Halloween
Step on a crack…
Blessing someone who sneezed
Mezuzah
Seal of Solomon
Gris-Gris
Crucifix
Swastika
Medicine bag

7. W.W. Jacobs “The Monkey’s Paw” 1902
A banker by day and bored out of his mind during his “days of captivity,” he wrote humorous short stories about sailors and ships. This is his only horror story.
This story was written when British occupied India, so many British soldiers served in this exotic land and brought back many strange beliefs and superstitions.
Biggest suspense elements: mood, foreshadowing, irony

8. FORESHADOWING Builds suspense by hinting at things to come.
Lion King, 1994

9. Mood
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Definition: The overall feeling or emotion created by the author’s words. Ask yourself: how does the work make you feel? Happy? Uplifted? Sad? Fearful? On edge? Example: The silly, whimsical scenes during the opening song “Shrek" suggest a light, humorous mood. Example: The fast paced, danger filled scenes at the end of Jurassic World provide a suspenseful and thrilling mood.

10. Brainstorm: come up with methods creating mood. Think Pair Share.
How is mood established in film?
How is mood established in music?
How is mood established in art?
How is mood established in writing?

11. Mood: listen to the following songs and think of the best adjective to describe the mood: uplifting, happy, optimistic, hopeful, pessimistic, gloomy, mournful, suspenseful, eerie.

12. Mood in Film: lighting, sound, setting
Forrest Gump trailer:
Forrest Gump trailer recut as a horror film:

13. Mood in Art: color and line

14. Mood in literature: words!
Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiancé and their wedding plans. Mood?
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.
Mood?

15. Task Peaceful (row a) Suspenseful (row b) Mysterious (row c)
Write a sentence describing someone entering a room and try to establish your assigned mood in the reader:
Your sentence should make the reader feel:
Peaceful (row a)
Suspenseful (row b)
Mysterious (row c)
Sorrowful (row d)
Romantic (row e)
Cheerful (row f)

16. Story Vocabulary: record in reading section
1. Peril (n): danger
2. Condol (v): to express sympathy
3. Grimace (n): facial expression of pain or disgust
4. Fate: power that determines events
5. Credulity (n): gullibility; a tendency to be too quick to believe (cred = trust)
6. Prosaic (adj): dull or ordinary
7. Compensation: payment
8. Resignation: acceptance of the inevitable

17. HW: Write a sentence for vocabulary words 1-4
1. Peril (n): danger
2. Condol (v): to express sympathy
3. Grimace (n): facial expression of pain or disgust
4. Fate: power that determines events
5. Credulity (n): gullibility; a tendency to be too quick to believe (cred = trust)
6. Prosaic (adj): dull or ordinary
7. Compensation: payment
8. Resignation: acceptance of the inevitable

18. Do you want to elicit a positive or negative reaction?
Thin
Emaciated
Denotation versus Connotation:
Two words can have the same dictionary meaning, but call up very different images.
Persuasive 8

19. Word Choice is powerful!
Freedom Fighter
Terrorist
Persuasive 8

20. Add to your Academic vocabulary:
Denotation: dictionary definition of a word.
Connotation: negative or positive response to the word.
Which has the positive connotation?
inexpensive or cheap
soggy or moist
immature or youthful
smile or smirk
antique or old-fashioned
odor or fragrance

21. Critical Vocabulary peril condole grimace fate credulity prosaic
compensation
resignation
TPS: Explain what is alike and different about the meanings of the words in each pair.
1. peril/risk
2. grimace/frown
3. compensation/wages
4. fate/outcome
5. credulity/trust
6. resignation/acceptance
7. condole/encourage
8. prosaic/dull

22. Critical Vocabulary
1. Peril and risk both refer to a danger, but a peril is something more serious.
2.   Both a grimace and a frown are facial expressions. A grimace may show pain or disgust. A frown shows disapproval or displeasure.
3.   Compensation and wages are types of payment. However, compensation is often money given for some type of loss or suffering.
4.   Both fate and outcome refer to a future event, but fate suggests an event is determined by an outside power.
5.  Both credulity and trust have to do with a willingness to believe something, but credulity refers to believing something too readily or easily.
6.  Resignation and acceptance both refer to deciding to put up with a situation. Resignation suggests that the situation is undesirable and inescapable.
7.   Both condole and encourage suggest supporting another person, but condole suggests a particular type of support through the expression of sympathy.
8.   Prosaic and dull both mean “ordinary” or “commonplace,” but dull has a more negative connotation.

23. What might be an example of foreshadowing?
Element
Evidence
PART 1
Mood
Beginning:
End:
Character
Foreshadowing
Theme
Reread part I. Record one example for each element on the chart. Be prepared to share:
What mood does the setting establish at the chapter’s beginning? Is it entirely negative? What language contributes to this mood?
What can you infer about Mr. White’s character by his chess playing and his response to his guest? What type of person is he? What might his fatal flaw be?
What might be an example of foreshadowing?

24. What might be an example of foreshadowing?
Element
Evidence
PART 1
Mood
Beginning: Cold and wet outside; warm fire – mood is cozy (1-3)
Middle: slushy, beastly, out-of-the-way places (18) - isolation
End: White sits along looking at the ghastly faces in dying fire (76-77) – dark and gloomy
Character
“possess ideas about the game….” -dangerously adventurous (4)
“…sharp and unnecessary perils…” - risk-taker (5)
“If you don’t want it, give it to me” – ignorant (109)
“I don’t know what to wish for…it seems I’ve got all I want.” - content yet willing to take a deadly risk ( )
Sounds like a man who needs to learn a lesson!
Foreshadowing
“…having seen a fatal mistake after it was too late…” (8-9) – he may handle monkey’s paw the same way.
“Better off where you are.” (50) SM’s warning of the danger
Crashing sound from piano as wish is made (154)
Theme
Old fakir wanted to prove that “…fate ruled people’s lives, and those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.” (74-76)
What mood does the setting establish at the chapter’s beginning? Is it entirely negative? What language contributes to this mood?
What can you infer about Mr. White’s character by his chess playing and his response to his guest? What type of person is he? What might his fatal flaw be?
What might be an example of foreshadowing?

25. Mood
Read:
Exit Slip: How has the mood changed inside the house from the beginning of the story to now? Give one example from the description of the setting in the beginning (1-7) and one example from lines (52-182). Support your answer with evidence.

26. Vocabulary
The sergeant-major warns that those who interfere with______ will meet with great ______. In contrast to Mr. White’s ______, Herbert doubts the sergeant-major’s truthfulness. The Whites’______ lives seem unlikely to lead into danger. But after they receive the ______ from Herbert’s company, they fall into a mood of despair and ______, realizing that they have brought this tragedy upon themselves. (compensation, credulity, resignation, fate, prosaic, peril)

27. Vocabulary
The sergeant-major warns that those who interfere with fate will meet with great peril. In contrast to Mr. White’s credulity, Herbert doubts the sergeant-major’s truthfulness. The Whites’prosaic lives seem unlikely to lead into danger. But after they receive the compensation from Herbert’s company, they fall into a mood of despair and resignation, realizing that they have brought this tragedy upon themselves.

28. Irony: The contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs.
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The contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs.
Three types: situational, dramatic, and verbal.

29. Record in adademic vocabular in reading section:
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Situational Irony: something occurs that is the opposite of what one would expect.
Ex: Bring an umbrella to work very day and the one day that you forget the umbrella, it rains!
Ex: Fire station burns down!

30. What is the mood as chapter 2 begins? Is it the same in the end?
Concept
Evidence:
PART II
Mood
Beginning:
End:
Foreshadowing
Situational Irony
Reread part II. Record one example for each element on the chart. Be prepared to share:
What is the mood as chapter 2 begins? Is it the same in the end?
When the stranger arrives, what foreshadows that bad news is eminent? ( )
How does dialogue advance the plot? How does Mrs. White make an inference? ( )
How it the conclusion of this chapter an example of situational irony? How does this support the theme? ( )

31. What is the mood as chapter 2 begins? Is it the same in the end?
Concept
Evidence:
PART II
Mood
Beginning: shining sun and warm family moment ( ) - cozy again
End: the both collapse at the news ( ) - heartbreaking
Foreshadowing
Stranger’s behavior: pauses at gate and passes it three times as though he is delaying something ( )
Looks “ill at ease” as he enters house (226)
Situational Irony
They receive 200 pounds for the loss of their son, the exact amount that they wished for!
Reread part II. Record one example for each element on the chart. Be prepared to share:
What is the mood as chapter 2 begins? Is it the same in the end?
When the stranger arrives, what foreshadows that bad news is eminent? ( )
How does dialogue advance the plot? How does Mrs. White make an inference? ( )
How it the conclusion of this chapter an example of situational irony? How does this support the theme? ( )

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40. Part III
Make a prediction:
Based on the theme of the story—don’t interfere with fate—what do you think the Whites might do with remaining two wishes?

41. Reread Part III: answer in complete sentences!
What is the mood at the beginning of Part III. Identify a word that contributes to the mood. ( )
Does Mr. White really believe in the “coincidence” of his son’s death? Why or why not? What can you infer? ( )
As Mrs. White decides to use the Monkey’s Paw again, do you experience dramatic irony? Why? ( )
What can you infer by Mr. White’s behavior? ( )
What are some examples of delay? Identify two examples. ( )
How do you know that Mr. White has learned his lesson? ( )
How is the theme reinforced by the story’s ending?

42. Fire/light/darkness: mood
Part I:
“fire burned brightly” - fire represents warm, safe haven at the chapter’s beginning.
“gazing at the dying fire” - a threat to the well-being of this family by the end of the chapter.
Part II:
“brightness of the wintry sun” – all of the sinister possibilities of the night before are washed away in daylight
Part III:
“Went down in the darkness…”
Candle expired
“the darkness was oppressive…”
“the match went out…”

43. Evaluating Media
Read information on film interpretations of narratives (page 123)
View clip (twice)
Complete graphic organizer for the following TDA:
Analyze the film’s depiction of the story in terms of characters, setting, and events.

44. Explain Cite Characters Setting Events
ANSWER: There are some key similarities and differences between “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs and the film version of the story.
Cite
Characters
Setting
Events
Explain