1. English English-Sept. 15 Freshmen

2. Agenda DOL Tone/Mood Read The Raven Watch Clip Do questions with partner Homework

3. DOL There car would not start irregardless of what they tried they finally beeped youre friend I think. Wasnt that a great softball game we seen with Colette and Lou your friends. Hilarious:amusement::______:joy Year:century:: cent:________

4. Homework R-Role A-Audience F-Format T-Topic Example: R- ant, A- young boy, F- verbal plea, T- convincing the boy not to step on you.

5. Homework assignment Role-Fortunato Audience-The other party goers Format-story follow Poe’s example. (At least one page) Topic-Why you didn’t deserve what happened to you.

6. Edgar Allan Poe Known for his mystery stories. One of the first short story writers. Considered a part of the Romantic Movement.

7. Tone/Mood Tone The author’s attitude, stated or implied, toward a subject. Some possible attitudes are pessimism, optimism, earnestness, seriousness, bitterness, humorous, and joyful. An author’s tone can be revealed through choice of words and details. Mood The climate of feeling in a literary work. The choice of setting, objects, details, images, and words all contribute towards creating a specific mood. For example, an author may create a mood of mystery around a character or setting but may treat that character or setting in an ironic, serious, or humorous tone

8. The Raven Focus on word choice (tone) First line: Once upon a midnight dreary What are 3 things you think of when you hear the word dreary?

9. Who is Lenore? Why do you think Poe chose to use a raven in this poem as opposed to, for example, a parrot or sparrow? What, according to the second stanza, is the speaker trying to accomplish by reading “forgotten lore”? When he peers into the darkness and sees nothing, who does the speaker initially imagine may be trying to contact him? What does the narrator mean when, in the eleventh stanza, he says of the raven, “Doubtless...what it utters is its only stock and store,/Caught from some unhappy master”? Describe the narrator’s state at the end of the poem. Why do you think “The Raven” is such a famous poem? Be specific.

10. Homework: Write your own story with the first line: Once upon a midnight dreary… Like Poe, focus on creating creepy images.