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        Writers get ideas from many places: images, news, observations. Look at this image and create and imagine what could have happened to the character. How can this help with your short story revision? Comment below.

Conflict Assignment: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

     You recently learned about various types of conflict both internal and external.  Edgar Allan Poe was very conflicted himself and wrote a lot about those dark problems.  Read his poem "The Raven" and answer the questions below on a separate sheet of paper. 

Link to the poem

Questions

1. What is an example of figurative language in the poem?

2. What does the narrator hear and how does he respond to this sound? (Stanza 7)

3. What does the narrator ask the raven and what did the raven say? (Stanza 8)

4. How does the narrator's mood change from the beginning of the poem? (Stanza 11)

5. The raven brings the narrator memories of Lenore. What happened to Poe's love in real life? What do you infer happened to Lenore in the poem? 

6. What could the raven represent in the story? 

7.  Short Answer (answer in three to five sentences)- What conflicts (internal and external) was the narrator facing.  Explain. 

If you need some help understanding the poem, here is a link and a video: Summary

After ten years, family members finally open this metal door:

A family in Wisconsin who had been living in this house for almost a decade, finally decided to see what was under this metal door. What they found was shocking....  Imagine this was the beginning to your scary story. What could this family have found down there? 

After you answer the question to the blog, you can find out what was really there by clicking here:

News Story

Hello students. Good job on your benchmarks yesterday! Since sophomores will be testing today, you have a poem to read and analyze.  Remember to read the poem more than once before you begin to analyze it.  Below is the poem. Answer the questions on your own sheet of paper.

Click here for the poem

Warm Up Question:  Do you believe in soulmates (someone who is meant to be with you)? COMMENT on the blog. 

Questions: Answer on our own sheet of paper. 

1. What is an example of figurative language in the poem?

2. What is the setting? How does the setting affect the mood of the poem?

3. What lines inform you of Annabel's death?

4. According the speaker, why did Annabel die?

5. Where does the speaker spend most of his time after Annabel's death? 

6. What is an inference you can make about how the speaker is dealing with the death of his love? 

7. After reading the poem, what image lingers in your mind? 

8 Tales Your Mexican Parents Used to Terrify You

This past week we focused on Folktales which are stories passed down generation by generation.  These stories are important to re-tell in order to keep the culture alive.  Read the following article and respond to the following questions. Then, pick one that you want to re-tell to a classmate.

1. What is the writer's purpose in writing this article?
2. What is the main idea of the article?
3. Have you heard any of the stories or variations of the stories?
4. Which one of the stories is your favorite and why?

Click on this Link:  Folktales