Friday, November 30th Topic: Understanding Allegory Level: Applying and Synthesizing Agenda:

1. Finish “The Masque of the Red Death”

2. LMG – Allegory Poster A/A: • Participation Points

• Allegory Poster- Due end of class!

Group 1: Prince Prospero (different from mine)

Group 2: East (regarding the order of the rooms)

Group 3: West (regarding the order of the rooms)

Group 4: The Clock

Group 5: The Masked Stranger

Group 6: The Black Room

Group 7: The Seven Rooms

Group 8 : The Clock

Group member:

A: Claim

B: Illustration

C: Quotes

D: Graphic Design

Write your role in notes

Think about the over-arching lesson/philosophy of the story…

• How does it connect to the lesson?

• What ideas can does it represent?

• How is it described by Poe?

• What is significant about its location?

“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe

Graphic Design • Graphically design what allegorical

item your group has• Fill the space!

Illustration• Color• Fill space – Details Details Details!!!! • Illustrate and allegorical representation

Quotes • Include 3 quotes from the text • Provide the line number

Allegory• Write what the idea the

allegory symbolizes as a claim• 2-3 complete sentences

Prince

Prospero

Characters’ names are used to contribute to the symbolic context of an allegorical story, which is seen in “The Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe. Prospero, the Prince, suggests financial prosperity. He exploits his wealth and ignores the intrusion of the Red Death in his kingdom by locking him, and his friends, up in his lavishly adorned castle.

“It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade.” (Line 27)

“The abbey was amply provisioned. With such provisions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. “ (Line 16)

“The external world could take care of itself” (Line 19)