1. The Devil and Tom Walker BY: WASHINGTON IRVING

2. The Gist: On his way home one night, Tom Walker takes a shortcut through a swamp where he meets the Devil. The Devil offers him buried pirates’ treasure on certain conditions. When Tom tells his greedy wife, she also goes to the swamp, but something happens to her. Will Tom make the deal with the Devil? Will he sell his soul?

3. Archetype? ___________ ___________ ___________

4. Vocabulary/References You May Need PAGE 142 1.Captain Kidd Scottish sailor who was tried and sentenced to death for being a pirate. 2. miserly (adj.) stingy 3. forlorn (adj.) miserable 4. savin (noun) a type of tree

5. Vocabulary/References You May Need PAGE 142, cont. 5. sterility (n) state of being infertile 6. termagant (n) a nagging woman 7. askance (adj) with a side glance 8. celibacy (n) unmarried status 9. quagmires (n) soft, mushy land 10. prostrate (adj) flat, horizontal position 11. bittern (n) a type of bird who prefers to remain hidden; it has a very distinct call (see pic)

6. Vocabulary/References You May Need PAGE 143 1.impregnable (adj) unconquerable 2.squaws (n) Native American wives 3.hemlock (see pic) 4.cloven (adj) split open 5.swarthy (adj) dark-skinned 6.hewn (v) to cut with blows of an ax, etc.

7. Vocabulary/References You May Need Page 144 1.Anabaptists: Members of a Protestant sect which originated in the 1500s (persecuted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony) 2.Quakers: Religious movement also referred to as Society of Friends that pushed for things like abolitions of slavery and women’s equal rights (also faced persecution by Puritans in Mass. Bay)

8. Vocabulary/References You May Need PAGE 144, cont. 3. morass (n) swamp 4. propitiated (v) appeased, made favorable (pacified) 5. surmised (v) inferred 6. obliterate (v) removed, erased 7. buccaneer (n) pirate 8. avarice (n) greed 9. sullen (adj) dismal, gloomy

9. Vocabulary/References You May Need PAGE 145 1.sulky (adj) angry or upset about something and refusing to talk about it 2.forebore (v) to abstain, refuse 3.slough (n) swamp 4.dolefully (adv) with an expression of grief or sadness 5.fortitude (n) strength

10. Vocabulary/References You May Need PAGE 146 1.usurer (n): one that lends money at an extremely high rate 2.rhino (n) slang term for money 3.Land Bank- 4.Eldorados- 5.Governor Belcher 6.ostentation (n) pretentious and vulgar display, especially of wealth and luxury, intended to impress or attract notice

11. Vocabulary/References You May Need PAGE 147 1.parsimony (n) extreme unwillingness to spend money (penny-pinching) 2.rigid (adj) unyielding 3.superfluous (adj) wasteful, extravagant 4.piety (n) devoutness 5.farthing (n) a coin worth approximately ¼ of a penny

12. Vocabulary/References You May Need PAGE 148 1.coffers (n) lockbox for valuables

13. Annotating with Purpose Words of Darkness Example from p. 142 “beautiful dark grove” Mysterious Circumstances Example from p. 142 “the devil presided at the hiding of money”

14. The “Moral of the Story” Identify at least two lessons from this folktale and word them as aphorisms.