Objective:  By the end of class, students will explore the symbolism in Poe’s Masque Of The Red Death, identify allusions by Poe to a Shakespearian poem, analyze allegorical components in fiction, and make real life connections to fictional text.

DO NOW: Explain what you should do if a question asks you to analyze?What should you include in answer?
to summarize? What do you include in answer?
to evaluate? What do you include in answer?

DIRECT INSTRUCTION:

The Black Plague -- quick review. What were the causes? How many died?

Review Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages Of Man” in Purple HOLT books -page 444.


Poe, a big fan of Shakespeare, alludes to the seven ages of man in The Red Mask of Death. Instead of using a acts of a play as a metaphor for the stages of life, Poe uses colored rooms that guests must pass through in the mansion the wealthy Count Prospero. 

GUIDED PRACTICE:

View slideshow on symbolism and rooms in Masque of Red Death

Using notebooks, take notes on the different colored rooms, and what they may refer to.
 
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE:

Using either Neos or paper and pencil, as well as the seven rooms guide to do the following assignment:

For each room of Prospero’s mansion, write a short paragraph relating that stage of life to your own? Are you in this stage? What do you remember about that stage?  
Identify symbols or memories from that stage or where you see yourself in that stage of life in the future. 

Example: I vaguely remember my first stage of life when i was in the "blue' room. I remember my crib and the rocking chair that my mom sat in next to it. I could never fall alseep without my favorite stuffed bear, Ted......

You should have 7 responses total.

Once you have finished, take a blank room worksheet.
Select any of the rooms/stages of life from Red Death, and draw items in that room that relate to that stage of life. Then, color the room the appropriate color.

Exit Pass

Evaluate Poe's purpose in using the colored rooms in The Red Mask of Death.