Today first and fourth periods did a Socratic Seminar on “The Cask of Amontillado” discussing if the story had to be in first person and if the narrator can be trusted. Notes from the discussion follow:

First Period Big Board Notes

• First person P.O.V.
• Makes story more detailed
• Doesn’t show reason of killing
• Biased opinion
• Narrator
• Narrator can’t be trusted because we don’t know what he did
• Narrator can be trusted because he is said to have no reason to lie
• Left out key information

Fourth Period Big Board Notes

• any thing other than 1^st would reveal others opinions
• feel like your in the story when in 1^st person
• cant trust the narrator
• could not be telling the full story
• could be blackmailing
• has to be in 1^st person
• in 1^st person the narrator always wants to look good
• we don’t know why this happened
• what did Fortunado do to Montresor

Second and seventh periods finished up the introductory work to “Effective Readers’ Skills” before moving onto the main selection of the quarter, Nightjohn.

Homework

• English I Honors: reread “The Cask of Amontillado” if needed.