Wednesday, November 28 The Masque of the Red Death

Objective: By the end of class, students will practice grammar, draw parallels between the Black Plague and Edgar Allan Poe's Tale, TMOTRD.

DO NOW

Grammar handout - practice using nouns and adjectives.

Direct Instruction

Review answers from comprehensive questions yesterday. 

View "The Masque of the Red Death" - 15 minutes.

Discuss / analyze themes - here

Answer Comprehensive questions below.

1. Why do the guests avoid the last room?

2. Who Comes to the party in disguise? (page 425)

3. Why does Prince Prospero run through all the chambers chasing him?

4. Where does the "guest" run to?

5. What happens when Prospero "meets" the strange guest?

6. Are the other guests angry at what happens to Prospero?

7. What do the guests do? What do they discover?

8. What happens to all the guests at the end?

9. Who is the guest symbolically?

10. Can anyone escape or hide from or mask the Red Death? 

Exit Pass

In your own words, explain how Prospero's party is an allegory for the bubonic plague (black death).