"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" Quiz and Close Reading Bundle

Help high school students enhance their active reading habits and close reading analysis skills with this bundle of formative assessments covering “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Included are the following: a plot-based, multiple choice quiz; a short answer alternate quiz option for re-assessment purposes; a worksheet composed of rigorous close reading questions; a craft analysis activity; and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will:

• Identify what the text states both explicitly and implicitly
• Determine the greater significance of a given detail
• Discern the intended effects of the author’s stylistic choices
• Explore cause-and-effect relationships
• Examine how characters think, behave, develop, and interact
• Apply knowledge of literary devices including hyperbole, personification, simile, metaphor, and imagery
• Argue whether the wives’ feelings toward their husbands are justified
• Consider whether the villagers are better off for having met the drowned man
• Support claims and inferences with reasoned thinking and relevant evidence
• Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision