1. agenda *IR *Voice Lesson: Diction #3 (from Charity) *Quiz Vocab Unit 2
*Discuss “Funny in Farsi”
*Intro Narrative Assignment (EA#1 Unit 2) – due Friday
HW: Work on rough draft – due tomorrow!

2. Reminders Vocab Quiz Unit 2 – today!
Unit Test – This Friday! Study guide will be posted to the blog and handed out tomorrow!
Research
By TOMORROW, you should have your topic choices narrowed down. Finish the chart from last week for your chosen topic.

3. Voice Lesson Passage #2
The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allen Poe)

4. It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang; and when the minute-hand made the circuit of the face, and the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a sound which was clear and loud and deep and exceedingly musical, but of so peculiar a note and emphasis that, at each lapse of an hour, the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause, momentarily, in their performance, to hearken to the sound; and thus the waltzers perforce [unavoidably] ceased their evolutions [progression], and there was a brief disconcert [unsettling] of the whole gay company; and, while the chimes of the clock yet rang, it was observed that the giddiest grew pale, and the more aged and sedate passed their hands over their brows as if in confused reverie [daydream] of meditation. But when the echoes had fully ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded [filled] the assembly; the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes, (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies,) there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before.

5. Vocab Quiz Unit 2

6. ir

7. Funny in Farsi
Think/Pair/Share: What assumptions are made about people who don’t speak English?
Key Vocabulary Words
memoir
anecdote
humor
As you review the text, mark the following elements:
Narrative Elements: setting, character(s), Point of View, Sequence of Events
Theme – next slide

8. Theme Theme: the writer’s main message/central idea
How do I identify theme?
In the text, ______________ (title of text), there are messages about _____________. (identify topics)
The message about _____________ (topic) is...
EX:
In Romeo and Juliet, there are messages about love.
The message about love is that it is a powerful and even dangerous emotion that can take over people and even destroy them.

9. Intro to Narrative assignment
Begin drafting – rough draft due tomorrow!