DUAL EMPRESARIAL ENGLISH 1: Dear Students

Friday, February 25, 2011

Welcome to our class blog. This is going to help us practice many things with short stories, and develop our reading and writing skills.
Enjoy.

ACTIVITIES

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN A WORD DOCUMENT AND SEND IT TO MY EMAIL: tomyyou@yahoo.com
1. Edit your profile.
2. Read the story "The Selfish Giant"
3. Do you like the story? Why? Why not?
4. Read the story "The Cask of Amontillado"
5. Describe the setting, the characters, the point of view, the slant.
6. Answer the Cask of Amontillado quiz
7. Read the story "The Masque of the Red Death"
8. Answer the questions of the story the Masque of the Red Death.
9. Read the story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

The Cask of Amontillado quiz

1. Describe the characters of the story.
2. Describe the setting of the story.
3. Describe the point of view of the story.
4. Describe the theme of the story.
5. Describe the slant(s) of the story.
6. Montresor's revenge has two conditions, what are they? was he succesful in performing these two conditions?
7. Why is it important that the story takes place during the carnival season?
8. How did Montresor make sure that there would be no servants at his palace when he arrived there with Fortunato?
9. What were Fortunato's succesive reactions

The Masque of the Red Death quiz

• 1. What were the symptoms of the Red Death? How long did it take to kill a person?
• 2. How did Lord Prospero think he could scape from the Red Death?
• 3. How many rooms were there in Prospero's Palace? How was each one special?
• 4. What was different about the "West" room?
• 5. What was special about the clock?
• 6. What happened while the great clock was striking twelve?
• 7. Why was the strange masquerader's custome in bad taste?
• 8. Who was the only person who thought he could kill the stranger? How?
• 9. How does the story end?
• 10. Do you get the feeling that Lord Prospero and his partying friends got their just desserts?