Tuesday, June 8, 2010

BOOK PROJECT

SCRAPBOOK BOOK PROJECT DIRECTIONS
DUE DATE: June 9th

A scrapbook is an album in which pictures, newspaper/magazine clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted in a creative design. Your scrapbook will be of your novel. It should be colorful, creative, and detailed. It should be neatly bound in a folder or a notebook.

SCRAPBOOK BOOK PROJECT RUBRIC
Page 1: Cover Sheet (Colorful picture of cover) __________ /5 points
Page 2: Setting (Creatively/clearly shows time and place) __________ /5 points
Page 3: Main Character (Description and illustration) __________ /10 points
Page 4: Main Character (Description and illustration) __________ /10 points
Page 5: Minor Character (Description and illustration) __________ /5 points
Page 6: Beginning of novel (Description and illustration) __________ /5 points
Page 7: Middle of novel/Conflict (Description and illustration) ____ /10 points
Page 8: End of novel/Resolution (Description and illustration) _____ /10 points
Page 9: Quote of Favorite Part (Quote, description, and
illustration) ___ /10 points
On time __________ /5 points
Handed in rubric __________ / 5 points
Used scrap-booking techniques to make your scrapbook neat,
colorful, creative, and detailed __________ /10 points
Spelling and Grammar __________ 10 points
TOTAL __________ /100 POINTS

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Chapter 14


Chapter 14 “Over the Edge”

Brig- 129: A two-masted sailing ship, square-rigged on both masts
Spars – 131: Nautical. A wooden or metal pole, such as a boom, yard, or bowsprit, used to support sails and rigging
Berthed -131: Docked
Trestle -132: A framework consisting of vertical, slanted supports and horizontal crosspieces supporting a bridge.

Edmund goes to the docks to talk to Capt Elias (who isn’t really a captain)

Edmund lies about his aunt and sis….saying they are “home”
Fortnoy is a friend of Elias.
Fortnoy was three days “locked up on the Lady Liberty”.
Elias is sure that Fortnoy was where he was.
Lady Liberty is docked.
Edmund walked the docks.
Edmund sees someone following him.
Sees the boat “sunrise”
Edmund runs to the end of the wharf and then pretends to go off the end …he then climbs under the wharf……to come up behind the person following him.
All he saw was white hair…was it Fortnoy?
Went off to Mrs. Whitman’s to find Dupin.



Study Guide;
1. 3 days
2. pretends to go off the end …he then climbs under the wharf……to come up behind the person following him
3. white hair
4. Fortnoy
5. Mrs. Whitman’s
6. PREDICT

Chapter 13


Chapter 13 “Our Secret Fears”
*Genially:119: pleasant, friendly
Apparition 120: a ghost like image of a person
Spectral 120: of or like a ghost
*Curt 120: rudely brief
Clerical 120: relating to the clergy
*Orations120:formal speeches
Consort 120: companion
Venomous 121 full of malice/spite
*Mockery 123:ridicule
Onslaught 123: a fierce attack
Improbable 124: not likely to be true
Bestial 124: of or like animal(s)
*Sordid 124: foul
*Daguerreotypes:125 early photo process: light sensitive silver coated metallic plate

Dupin is sweating, sick etc.
Tea at Mrs Whitman's
He saw 5 people at Mrs Whitman's all women were apparitions of the woman in the tomb and the men were Edmund.
Dupin is hallucinating
Dr Dillard, his orations are famous
Mrs Dillard
Mr Arnold
Mr MacFarlane: a poet
Catherine
Arnold inquires about Poe’s writing
P122 Evil is only the name we give our secret fears
“What if a man orders……
Dupin spoke to Arnold about coat
Mr Arnold leaves
McFarlane – Stories make me uncomfortable speaks of Auguste Dupin
Mrs Whitman speaks of a portrait studio and Dupin flirts and says he will have a portrait done for her to study.

Study Questions
1. the apparition, Edmund
2. a gathering of demons
3. the man who was to marry Mrs Whitman
4. Mr McFarlane
5. crime, brutality, death
6. the name we give our secret fears
7. what they know best
8. he leaves
9. he is a character in one of Poe’s stories
10. Mrs. Whitman
11. have his portrait done
12. he says he never knows
13. PREDICT