Detailed Lesson Plan in Teaching Literature

Topic / Title: The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Grade Level: Grade 9

Time Allotment: 60 minutes

Teacher: Renalyn B. Galgo

Learning Competency: To define suspense and how it use in storytelling.

Objectives:

By the end of the class, students should be able to;

1. unlock the meaning of unfamiliar words

2. extract the central idea or message of the story
3. relate the story to some actual situations in life

Materials:

 Cartolina
 Manila paper
 Marker
 PowerPoint Presentation
 Projector

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

A. Preliminary
Everybody stand up and let us pray. We thank You, Oh Lord for this day.
Bless our teachers as they teach us.
In Jesus name. amen

Good afternoon, class! Good afternoon, Ma’am.

Okay, class before we start I like you

to pick up those papers under your chair.

Keep everything unnecessary.

Are you through? Yes Ma’am.

Okay you may take your seat now.

 Class, is there any absent today? None ma’am.
Wow that’s good!
B. Review
Class, last discussion we’ve tackled about,
The three models of teaching literature.
Am I right? Yes, Ma’am.
Ok, so what are those three models again? Language Model, Cultural Model
and Personal Growth Model.
Very good!
So, here’s what you are going to do.
Get one fourth sheet of paper and answer
the following.
Identify whether the statement is Cultural,
Language or Personal Growth Model.
I will give you 5-7 minutes to answer it.

Write CM if the given statement is Cultural Model, LP if Language Model, and PGM if Personal
Growth Model.
_____1. It helps students to find ways into a text into a methodical way.
_____2. It enables the student to understand and appreciate cultures that are different from them.
_____3. The more the students can read in, the more they will indulge themselves in literature.
_____4. This engagement cannot be really measured in terms of passing examinations in
literature but in the extent wherein the students carry with them beyond the classroom the love
and enjoyment of studying literature.
_____5. There is no literature if there is no language.

Okay, let’s check. Exchange papers with your seatmates.

number 1, here are the answers on the board.
Answers;
1. LM 3.LM 5. LM
2. CM 4. PGM

C. Procedure
Okay, class before we start discussing
our new lesson for today, we will have
an activity first, regarding your
view about the word ‘revenge’.
ELICIT (Access prior knowledge)
The class will be divided into 4 groups, after the division they will be given an activity regarding
their view about the word ‘revenge’ and what are other words can be associated to it. For
example, anger, betrayal etc. They can use diagrams to make their ideas more concise and clear.
Every group were ought to answer the following questions briefly;
 Have you ever been so angry?
 Did you seek revenge against the person who insulted you?

Okay? Are we clear? Yes, Ma’am.

Do you have questions? None, Ma’am.

Okay. Let’s start.

Count 1 to 4 starting at the back 1,2,3,4,1,2,3…

Now, go to your respective groups.

You have 10 minutes to finish your

activity.

Times-up! Everybody settle down in

5,4,3,2,1.

Present your report, everyone.

 Okay, everyone take your sit.
First, I would like to acknowledge your efforts
for doing that activity.
Second, thank you for those students who
shared their experience regarding the questions.
Now, we will move on, to our next lesson…
ENGAGE (Get the students’ minds focused on the topic).
For today’s lesson, we are going to learn about
the story entitled, “The Cask of Amontillado.”
but before that, let’s untangled the words that
we will encounter in the story.

LIST OF THE WORDS:

1. ymnpuiit- exemption or immunity from punishment (impunity)
2. imoolatmin- to kill a person as a sacrifice (immolation)
3. nnoissecour- an expert in wine tasting/distinguishing wine taste
(connoisseur)
4. mleoty- jester’s costume/ colorful costume (motley)
5. ntailmolado- pale, dry sherry form Spain (amontillado)
6. dMeoc- class of wine (Medoc)
7. otgreusqe- something strange/ weird (grotesque)
8. atcoacmb- burial ground (catacomb)
9. tnier- potassium nitrate (nitre)

Okay, so arrange the jumble words according (students raise their hands)
to their meaning, anyone who wants to try?
Yes? Impunity
Very good! Next. Immolation
Ok, next Connoisseur
Connoisseur, very good. Next, Motley
Very good! Next, Amontillado
Next, Medoc
Nice, next Grotesque
Very good! Next. Catacomb
Catacomb, okay last, Nitre
Very good, class! You were able to
Arrange the jumble letters correctly.
Now, let’s try to use those words into
a sentence…
Anyone?
…
Okay class, it seems to me, that you really
understand the words we untangle it’s now time
for us, to proceed to the story.

EXPLORE
Okay, brief background about the author
He’s the Father of American short stories.
He wrote a lot of poems and short stories. It
was said that he’s a drunkard and he makes beautiful
piece when he’s drunk.
The Cask of Amontillado is one of his short stories.
So, let’s dissect the title.

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Cask is a container that is shaped like a barrel and is used for holding liquids.
Amontillado is a medium dry sherry; a type of a strong wine with nutty flavor that is
made especially in Spain.

So, in simple terms Cask of Amontillado

 refers the container of the wine.
Class, we will read the story part by
part.
Okay? Let’s start.
Anyone, please read.

Fortunato had hurt me thousand times and I had suffered quietly. But then I learned that he had
laughed at my proud name, Montresor, the name of an old and honored family. I promised
myself that I would make him pay for this — that I would have revenge. You must not suppose,
however, that I spoke of this to anyone. I would make him pay, yes; but I would act only with the
greatest care. I must not suffer as a result of taking my revenge. A wrong is not made right in
that manner. And also the wrong would not be made right unless Fortunato knew that he was
paying and knew who was forcing him to pay.

Next, please read.

I gave Fortunato no cause to doubt me. I continued to smile in his face, and he did not
understand that I was now smiling at the thought of what I planned for him, at the thought of my
revenge. Fortunato was a strong man, a man to be feared. But he had one great weakness: he
liked to drink good wine, and indeed he drank much of it. So he knew a lot about fine wines, and
proudly believed that he was a trained judge of them. I, too, knew old wines well, and I bought
the best I could find. And wine, I thought, wine would give me my revenge! It was almost dark,
one evening in the spring, when I met Fortunato in the street, alone. He spoke to me more
warmly than was usual, for already he had drunk more wine than was good for him. I acted
pleased to see him, and I shook his hand, as if he had been my closest friend.
“Fortunato! How are you?”
“Montresor! Good evening, my friend.”
“My dear Fortunato! I am indeed glad that I have met you. I was just thinking of you. For I have
been tasting my new wine. I have bought a full cask of a fine wine which they tell me is
Amontillado. But....”
“Amontillado! Quite impossible.”
“I know. It does not seem possible. As I could not find you I was just going to talk to Luchresi. If
anyone understands wines it is Luchresi. He will tell me....”
“Luchresi? He does not know one wine from another!”
“But they say he knows as much about wines as you know.”
“Ho! — Come. Let us go.”
“Go where?”
“To your vaults. To taste the wine.”
“No, my friend, no. I can see that you are not well. And the vaults are cold and wet.”
“I do not care. Let us go. I’m well enough. The cold is nothing. Amontillado! Someone is playing
games with you. And Luchresi! Ha! Luchresi knows nothing about wines, nothing at all.”

As he spoke, Fortunato took my arm, and I allowed him to hurry me to my great stone palace,
where my family, the Montresors, had lived for centuries. There was no one at home. I had told
the servants that they must not leave the palace, as I would not return until the following
morning and they must care for the place. This, I knew, was enough to make it certain that they
would all leave as soon as my back was turned.

Okay, so next.

I took down from their places on the wall two brightly burning lights. I gave one of these to
Fortunato and led him to a wide doorway. There we could see the stone steps going down into
the darkness.
Asking him to be careful as he followed, I went down before him, down under the ground, deep
under the old walls of my palace. We came finally to the bottom of the steps and stood there a
moment together. The earth which formed the floor was cold and hard. We were entering the last
resting place of the dead of the Montresor family. Here too we kept our finest wines, here in the
cool, dark, still air under the ground. Fortunato’s step was not sure, because of the wine he had
been drinking. He looked uncertainly around him, trying to see through the thick darkness which
pushed in around us. Here our brightly burning lights seemed weak indeed. But our eyes soon
became used to the darkness. We could see the bones of the dead lying in large piles along the
walls. The stones of the walls were wet and cold. From the long rows of bottles which were lying
on the floor, among the bones, I chose one which contained a very good wine. Since I did not
have anything to open the bottle with, I struck the stone wall with it and broke off the small end. I
offered the bottle to Fortunato.
“Here, Fortunato. Drink some of this fine Medoc. It will help to keep us warm. Drink!”
“Thank you, my friend. I drink to the dead who lie sleeping around us.”
“And I, Fortunato — I drink to your long life.”
“Ahh! A very fine wine, indeed! But the Amontillado?”
“It is farther on. Come.”
We walked on for some time. We were now under the river’s bed, and water fell in drops upon us
from above. Deeper into the ground we went, past still more bones.
“Your vaults are many, and large. There seems to be no end to them.”
“We are a great family, and an old one. It is not far now. But I can see you are trembling with
the cold. Come! Let us go back before it is too late.”
“It is nothing. Let us go on. But first, another drink of your Medoc!”
I took up from among the bones another bottle. It was another wine of a fine quality, a De Grâve.
Again I broke off the neck of the bottle. Fortunato took it and drank it all without stopping for a
breath. He laughed, and threw the empty bottle over his shoulder.
 Next, Please read.

We went on, deeper and deeper into the earth. Finally we arrived at a vault in which the air was
so old and heavy that our lights almost died. Against three of the walls there were piles of bones
higher than our heads. From the fourth wall someone had pulled down all the bones, and they
were spread all around us on the ground. In the middle of the wall was an opening into another
vault, if I can call it that — a little room about three feet wide, six or seven feet high, and
perhaps four feet deep. It was hardly more than a hole in the wall.
“Go on,” I said.
“Go in; the Amontillado is in there.”
Fortunato continued to go forward, uncertainly. I followed him immediately. Soon, of course, he
reached the back wall. He stood there a moment, facing the wall, surprised and wondering. In
that wall were two heavy iron rings. A short chain was hanging from one of these and a lock
from the other. Before Fortunato could guess what was happening, I closed the lock and chained
him tightly to the wall. I stepped back.
“Fortunato,” I said.
“Put your hand against the wall. You must feel how the water runs over it. Once more I ask you,
please, will you not go back? No? If not, then I must leave you. But first I must do everything I
can for you.”
“But...But the Amontillado?”
“Ah, yes, yes indeed; the Amontillado.”
As I spoke these words I began to search among the bones. Throwing them to one side I found
the stones which earlier I had taken down from the wall. Quickly I began to build the wall again,
covering the hole where Fortunato stood trembling.
“Montresor! What are you doing!?”

So, what happen?

They walk into a crypt, where human bones decorate

three of the four walls.

Can you imagine that?

Let’ see what will happen next,

Please read the last part.

I continued working. I could hear him pulling at the chain, shaking it wildly. Only a few stones
remained to put in their place.
“Montresor! Ha-ha. This is a very good joke, indeed. Many times will we laugh about it — ha-ha
 — as we drink our wine together — ha-ha.”
“Of course. As we drink the Amontillado.”
“But is it not late? Should we not be going back? They will be expecting us. Let us go.”
“Yes. Let us go.”
As I said this I lifted the last stone from the ground.
“Montresor! For the love of God!!”
“Yes. For the love of God!”I heard no answer.
“Fortunato!” I cried. “Fortunato.”
I heard only a soft, low sound, a half-cry of fear. My heart grew sick; it must have been the cold.
I hurried to force the last stone into its position. And I put the old bones again in a pile against
the wall. For half a century now no human hand has touched them. May he rest in peace!

Okay, thank you.

EXPLAIN
So, what can you say about the story?
If you notice, the end of the story goes back at the
present time it’s like he reminisce what happened

fifty years ago. Right? Yes, Ma’am

Okay, let’s try to analyze the story the story.

In the beginning Montressor wants to exact this

revenge, however, in a measured

way, without placing himself at risk.

So, how is he going to do that? Through entrapping Fortunato and

effecting his revenge.

Very good!

He tantalized Fortunato with the rare liquor,

even pretending that his vaults where the wine was

stored had too much dampness and "nitre" for

Fortunato's affliction. However, Fortunato was

 determined to taste the wine and insisted on being taken

to Montresor's home.

So, what happen next? They walk into a crypt, where human

bones decorate three of the four

walls.

Yes, correct and Montresor then suddenly

chains the slow-footed Fortunato to a stone.

Until he fits the last stone into place and plasters

the wall closed, his actions accompanied only by

the jingling of Fortunato’s bells.

And then, he said “For fifty years, no one has

disturbed them. He concludes with a Latin

phrase meaning “May he rest in peace.”

Do you understand the story class? Yes, Ma’am

Questions? None, Ma’am.

ELABORATE
Well, then let’s answer the following

questions on the board.

Anyone, who wants to answer number 1?

Give the setting of the story.

Ans. At the catacombs of Montressor Palace during the night of carnival season.
Who are the main characters in the story
Ans. Montressor and Fortunato
What can you say about Montresor’s character? How does he appeal to you?
Ans. Montressor is the type of person who hold grudges. He was consume by pain and hatred the
reason why he became like that.
 What do you think is the reason why Montresor did such crime.
Ans. He got so fed up to Fortunato’s insult about him that led him to commit such crime.

What do you think is the message of the writer for the readers
Ans. I think the message of the writer is, we must not let our emotions, get the better of
us. Because it might lead to something we might regret

Okay, I can see that you really understood

our lesson for today.

So, class before we proceed to our group

activity, get one-half sheet of paper
and answer the questions on the board.

Answer the following questions.

Is revenged justified in the story? Why?
Ans. No. because there are lots of ways to solve a misunderstanding, and revenge is not
an option.
(accept other answers that seem justifiable)

How do you view Fortunato’s character in the story?

Ans. Fortunato, is an insensitive person, who takes everything lightly.
(accept other answers that seem justifiable)

If you were Montresor, are you going to do the same thing as revenge?
(accept other answers that seem justifiable)

Are you through?

Okay, exchange papers with your seatmates.
Let’s answer the questions on the board.
Number 1…

Pass your paper in front. In the count of 5-

1,2,3,4,5.
Okay, no more papers.
 Everybody sit down.

Valuing:
How do actions have serious consequences for others, even if you aren’t aware of them?

EVALUATE
Okay, so here’s what you’re going to do
I will divide you into 3 groups and each
group will have different task regarding
on our topic for today.

Group 1 will make a slogan about revenge.

Anything about revenge may it be positive or negative.
While Group 2 will make a poster. Keep it simple.
And last, Group 3 will choose a scene in the story and act it.
So, the criteria for judging,
Content 5 pts.
Creativity 5 pts.
Coherence of the message 5 pts and
Cooperation 5 pts.
Total of 20 points.

The class will be divided into 3 groups and the teacher will give each group a task about the
literary piece they had discussed
.
Group 1 will make a slogan about revenge.
Anything about revenge may it be positive or negative.

Group 2 will make a poster. Keep it simple, the poster must show how revenge appear in the
poster.
Group 3 will choose any part in the story and act it.

Content 5 pts
Creativity 5 pts
Coherence of the Message 5 pts
Cooperation 5 pts

Are we clear? Yes, Ma’am.

 Okay, let’s count 1 to 3.
Let’s start at the back. 1,2,3,1,2,3…
Go, to your respective groups I will give
you 10 minutes to do your activity.

Okay, time’s up!

Everybody settle down.
Present your work now.

Okay, give yourselves 5 claps. (claps)

You all did a great job.
I am going to announced your score…
Congratulations!

EXTEND

Okay, class copy your assignment on the board

to be passed tomorrow.

Put it on one half-sheet of paper. Okay, Ma’am.

Assignment
How does Edgar Allan Poe used suspense in the story?

Goodbye class! Goodbye Ma’am!