1. Question of the Day 9/8
Read the first few lines of page In what point of view is the story written.
Read the background paragraph on page What was the Spanish Inquisition?

2. “Pit and the Pendulum”
Obj: I will learn vocabulary, background information on the story and the author.

3. What was the Spanish Inquistion?
A part of the Catholic government in the ’s in Spain that persecuted all Protestants and heretical Catholics.
Starvation, Strappado, The Rack, mutilation of limbs

4. What is the symbolism in the story?
The inquisitioners = angels of death
The pit = hell
The scathe = countdown to death
General LaSalle = hand of God

5. Put the following questions on the left side
Put the following questions on the left side. Then answer them through the video.
What did Edgar A. Poe’s biological parents do?
Who took him in after his death?
Who did Poe marry and how old was she?
How did he support his wife?
What disease did all the women he love get?
What was Poe’ first big success?

6. Indeterminate
The old women looked very healthy and young, so knowing her age seemed indeterminate.
Def: Not precisely known or determined

7. Eloquent
When the minister spoke, he seemed eloquent because of how descriptive his words were and how he moved his hands to add meaning to his words
Def: vividly expressive

8. Lucid
Although the child had seen horrible things, she seemed lucid when explaining the event.
Def: mentally sound

9. Pervading
When the child ran his nails across the board, I felt a tingling feeling pervading throughout my body.
Def: to spread throughout

10. supposition
The new girl dressed and acted strange; however when we got to know her she was very nice. I guess we should not have made a supposition about her.
Def: something supposed; an assumption

11. insuperable
As I looked up at the steep mountain I was about to climb, I was sure that this would be an insuperable obstacle.
Def: impossible to overcome

12. In your notes from yesterday
Write the following words and their definition (you will find it in the story beginning on page 772). Also, write a synonym and antonym for the word.
lethargy confound pertinacity voracity

13. Torture Techniques
They used very unorthodox torture techniques to punish the people who did not conform with the Catholic Church

14. List in a small group
What other events in history are similar to the Spanish Inquisition?
Why?

15. Examples: Romans vs. Christians Jews during the Crusade
Spanish Inquisition
Reign of Terror
African slavery
Japanese Americans WWII
Holocaust
Chinese Immigrants in the American West
Trail of Tears of the Cherokees
Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge
Bosnia
Racial Apartheid
Gender Apartheid
Armenian massacre