October 11, 2011

Mrs. Leary October 11, 2011

Do Now: Read your SSR book silently.

AGENDA Vocabulary Review Book Fair

Vocabulary Review

Mrs. Leary

October 11, 2011

DO NOW: Writer's Notebook- Do you think places (such as homes) can have personalities? Why or why not? How would you describe your home?
Agenda: "Fall of the House of Usher" Gothic Elements (2nd half) Finish graphic organizer

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Roderick informs the narrator that Madeline has passed away, however he would like to preserve her body for "a fortnight" in one of the vaults within the main walls of the building. Roderick requests that the narrator help him in this endeavor.

"The vault in which we placed it... was small, damp, and entirely without means of admission for light; lying...immediately beneath... my own sleeping apartment.... The door, of massive iron.... caused an unusually sharp grating sound, as it moved upon its hinges." While burying Madeline, the narrator realizes that Roderick and she have "a striking similitude."

Days have now passed, and Roderick has neglected or forgotten all ordinary things. "He roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step.... the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours... as if listening to some imaginary sound." Seven or eight days after placing lady Madeline in the vault, the narrator is beginning to also feel effects of Roderick's "condition"- he couldn't sleep one dark and stormy night. He felt an "intense sentiment of horror"; he tossed and turned and finally decided to get up when he heard footsteps...

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"Have you seen it? You have not seen it then?" Roderick asks the narrator, then goes flings open the window to the storm. The narrator hurries Roderick away from the window and the storm, enticing him to follow with a novel, the Mad Trist by Sir Launcelot Canning, a medieval romance. As he reads, he hears noises that correspond to the descriptions in the story. - a cracking and ripping sound - a piercing shriek Roderick begins acting strangely, moving his chair to face the door. He drops his head and starts rocking from side to side and muttering unintelligibly. The narrator continues the story and he hears - a "shield of brass falling heavily upon a floor of silver"

Not being able to ignore the sounds anymore, the narrator approaches Roderick and listens to what he is saying. Roderick reveals that he has been hearing these sounds for days, and believes that they have buried Madeline alive and that she is trying to escape. He yells, "Madman!" - springing furiously to his feet and "shrieked out his syllables, as if in the effort he were giving up his soul"Madman!" and yells that she is standing behind the door.

The wind blows open the door and confirms Rodericks fears: Madeline stands in white robes bloodied from her struggle. She attacks Roderick as the life drains from her, and he dies of fear.

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From that chamber, and from that mansion, I ed aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could we have issued; for the vast house and its shadows were alone behind me. The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon which now shone vividly through that once barely-discernible ssure of which I have before spoken as extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base. While I gazed, this ssure rapidly widenedthere came a erce breath of the whirlwindthe entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sightmy brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunderthere was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand watersand the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of theHOUSE OF USHER.

Complete your graphic organizer on symbolism.

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Upcoming Due Dates:

Tomorrow, 10/12: Complete the "Usher" vocab. sheet (pg. 69) in your Poe packet. Thursday, 10/13: Study for vocabulary quiz on Lessons 3 and 4.