English 9 Class Notes

Objectives: Freshmen identified and explained character, plot, and irony in a short story.

We discussed your answers to the questions I assigned you over “The Cask of Amontillado” and I administered a comprehension quiz over the story. Neat discussion of ideas today, kids.

To end the day, I shared an interpretation of an interpretation of Poe’s story set to the music of the Alan Parsons Project, a 1970s prog rock band that produced highly stylized concept albums along the lines of Pink Floyd, bur far more artsy-fartsy.

Here again is the video I screened in class. It’s a fan-production created for but independent of the song “The Cask of Amontillado” from the album Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the above band which in turn itself is based on Poe’s original story. Read the lyrics (right click and open them in a new window or tab) so you can follow along as you watch.

We’ll begin the next story in the class text next class. See you then.

September 28, 2009 | Filed Under English 9

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