The Most Dangerous Game Lesson Plan

Teaching Richard Connell’s famous story “The Most Dangerous Game”? Use this resource to review literary devices, focus on plot, characterization, and conflict, and more. This resource can be used as a stand-alone or part of a short stories unit.

Included are:

✺ Suggested lesson plan for pre, during, and post-reading

✺ Vocabulary - using context clues and vocabulary exercises

✺ Literary Terms: Use the included PowerPoint to review six literary terms: mood; simile; metaphor; point of view; protagonist; and antagonist

✺ Key Focus: Plot - two pages of reading comprehension questions and a plot diagram

✺ Key Focus: Characterization - Determine if passages are examples of direct or indirect characterization as well as what they reveal about the character.

✺ Key Focus: Conflict - Review the four types of conflict and determine which is being used in each passage

✺ Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt - Identify examples of figurative language and search the text for examples of the terms given

✺ Extension Activities - Choose from three extension activities. Includes suggested rubrics

✺ Suggested answer key - Since many questions require students to provide textual evidence and their own analysis, these answers should be viewed as starting points.