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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: 1. Can you name the elements of fiction for each story? 2. What might an author's life have to do with the stories they write? 3. What is the difference between theme and mood in a story? 4. How do these stories connect to my life?

Vocabulary: Various "Blue" Vocabulary from throughout the stories

10/29 (Deleterious) Tell-Tale Heart

10/30 Review/Study Day

10/31 Test; SSR; Reading Logs Due

10/15 (Imperious) Lady, or the Tiger?

10/16 (Barbaric) Lady, or the Tiger? Rubric for persuasive paper

10/26 (Diatribe) Edgar Allen Poe; SSR

Benchmarks: 8.4.1.1/8.5.1.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports what the text says explicitly as well as inferences. 8.4.2.2 Determine theme, analyize its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot. 8.5.2.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over time. 8.4.6.6 Analyze how differences in points of view create effects like suspense or humor. 8.5.6.6 Determine author's point of view. 8.4.7.7 Analyze to what extent a filmed production stays faithful to the text. 8.5.7.7 Evaluate advantages and disadvantages for using different mediums.

LAST UNIT: Secret Knowledge CURRENT UNIT: Short Story Unit NEXT UNIT: Persuasive Essay/Essay Writing

UNIT SCHEDULE

10/5 Short Story Elements; IR Books; SSR

10/9 (Respiration) Essays Due; Raymond's Run

10/10 (Epiphany) Raymond's Run; Ransom of Red Chief

10/11 (Propositition) Red Chief

10/12 (Surreptitously & Irony) Red Chief Movie & Venn Diagram

Short  Stories  Elements   to  help  

convey   the  author's    message  

Edgar  Allen  Poe  

Background  

"Raymond's  Run"  

"The  Ransom  of  Red  Chief"  

"The  Lady,  or  the  Tiger?"  

"The  Tell-­‐Tale  Heart"  

Dialogue  Mood  

Theme  Protagonist  

Antagonist  

Characters  

Plot  

Climax  

Irony  Conflict  

Rising  AcCon  Point  of  View  

Obsessions  

Death  

UNIT MAP (Willhite, Lesher) Name_____________________________________________Section________