Friday, October 16, 2026

Day 48

Objective:  The students will see/hear the best soundtrack for the Monte Cristo Project ever.  They will only hope to make one so amazing.

1.  Get out a sheet of paper.  Put proper heading on it.  Title it Monte Cristo Song Quiz.

2.  Take the quiz.  It's worth 25 points.

3.  Read Chapter 31:  "The Presentation"  Where the Count meets Fernand and Mercedes for the first time in 23 years!!!!  (Remember, Fernand is now called Count Morchef. 

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Day 47

Objective:  The students will finish MC Study Guide.

1.  MC Quiz Chapter 29

2.  Discuss the chapter

3.  MC Chapter 30 and complete the study guide for tomorrow. 

4.  Monte Cristo Song Quiz tomorrow.  25 points. 

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Day 46

Objective:  The students will discuss Monte Cristo Chapter 28.

1.  WP #20

2.  Turn in WP Packet 11-20

3.  Read Chapter 29 and study guide.

      In Rome for the carnival the Count sits and has breakfast with Albert and Franz.  They discuss the coming executions.  And the Count says that he has been working on getting one of the men a reprieve.  Later Franz notices a the banners hung from the Counts windows, which are a signal to Luigi Vampa that his man is not going to be hung.  The boys then leave on the Count's carriage and they flirt with some pretty young girls.  Later that night Albert gets a letter telling him to meet one of them.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Day 45

Objective:  The students will read Chapter 28.

1.  WP # 19:  Monte Cristo and Albert and Franz.

2.  Read Chapter 28 and complete study guide questions.  

Go down to the library in groups of five and print Voice Writing.  Make sure your name and period are on it.

WP

     In Chapter 26 and 27 of The Count of Monte Cristo, the setting is Rome 23 years after Dante's imprisonment.   Two new characters are introduced; Albert Morchef and Franz d'Epinay.  They are teenagers on vacation for the carnival.  While out sightseeing Franz overhears The Count of Monte Cristo talking to the bandit named, Luigi Vampa.  Vampa says that one of his men is set to be hung and if the Count can free him, he will owe 'complete devotion' to the Count.

 

Wednesday, October 07, 2026

Day 41

Objective:  The students will close read their new short story.

1.  WP #18 

2.  Close Read "The Secret Lion."  This story we are working on voice analysis.  Tone, diction and syntax.  As well as all the past things that we have discussed.

3.  Make sure that you have read Monte Cristo up to Chapter 27 by the time I get back.

BE GREAT for the subs please.   

Tuesday, October 06, 2026

Day 40

Objective:  The students will know how Dantes saves the Morrel family.

1.   MC Chapters 24-25 Quiz

2.  Timeline and Character Chart Update

3.  "The Secret Lion" vocabulary

4.  Read MC Chapters 26-27.  "Roman Bandits" and "The Apparition" and study guide.

Monday, October 05, 2026

Day 39

Objective:  The students will read the chapters where Dantes repays Mr. Morrel for trying to help.

1.  WP Number 17

2.  Discuss MC Chapter 23

3.  Read Chapters 24-25.  Be ready for a quiz tomorrow. 

WP:

     In the chapter titled The Prison Register, a mysterious white man visits the Mayor of Marseilles. The Mayor tells him to go see the Inspector of Prisons.  The inspector told him that Mr. Morrel owes him $200,000.  That mysterious man pays the debt for Mr. Morrel, butt he also steals the letter that Danglars and Fernando wrote that got Dantes arrested.  Mr. Morrel now owes the mysterious man $200,000.