October 23, 2018

Objective: I can use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the settings I imagine while looking at the images provided and utilizing the vocabulary shown  (W11-12.3d).

• Entry Task:  Watch and annotate We Grow Accustomed to the Dark by Emily Dickinson for any characteristics of the horror genre
• Introduce Robert Browning from slideshow
• Read Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning and analyze it for characteristics of the horror genre.  
  • Examine the setting closely what words are used to create the eerie atmosphere?
• Copy the definition of Metonymy and how it is used in the setting to develop the eerie atmosphere
  • 5 min. Look at the horror setting that is closest to you and describe it using at least three of the metonymy examples shown in the slideshow
• Pass the pictures around, make sure you do not have the same picture twice as we go through the next six slides
• Each slide will have vocabulary to help develop the eerie atmosphere.  You will take 3-5 min. (depending on how long pen(cils) are moving) to write on the picture you have nearest you.  
  • Write based on what you see but also what you imagine--you may create characters or other elements that are not visible in the scene provided
  • Use at least three of the words provided to describe the scene
  • Repeat this process through the next 5 slides, passing pictures around at each transition.  
• Share out your favorite description with a neighbor.  
• Exit Task:  Review the Character Creation handout; how much of this have you developed already in today’s writing, the Horror brainstorm, or Isle of the Dead?