Help high school students develop a greater understanding of how Edgar Allan Poe used descriptive language, characterization, setting, connotation, and various literary devices in “The Black Cat” to establish an eerie mood that is consistent with the horror and supernatural fiction genres. Delivered in Word Document and PDF formats, this resource serves well for an independent learning opportunity, as well as for small-group discussions. Through such discussions, students may evaluate peers’ reasoning and use of rhetoric to support claims, clarifying or challenging ideas as needed. An answer key and copy of the public domain short story are included.
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Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Quiz and Close Reading Bundle
Promote active engagement with Gothic fiction, support the development of close reading analysis skills for high school, and evaluate general reading comprehension with this bundle of resources for teaching a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories: "The Oval Portrait," "The Black Cat," "Hop-Frog," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Masque of the Red Death." Answer keys for every resource are provided, as are all public domain short stories. Materials are delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats.
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“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe Quiz and Close Reading Bundle
Promote active engagement with fiction, support the development of close reading analysis skills for high school, and evaluate general reading comprehension with this bundle of resources for teaching the Gothic short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe. Included are the following: a plot-based quiz, a worksheet composed of rigorous close reading questions, a craft analysis activity, the public domain narrative, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will perform the following tasks: * Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly * Articulate the narrator's intent in a given excerpt * Isolate a false statement from factual details associated with a given excerpt * Examine the narrator's modes of thinking to discern and articulate what he identifies as the cause(s) of his current circumstances * Analyze a given excerpt to discern its primary function * Apply knowledge of the anaphora to an excerpt * Apply knowledge of simile to an excerpt * Apply knowledge of hyperbaton to an excerpt * Apply knowledge of paradox to an excerpt * Apply knowledge of alliteration to an excerpt * Examine cause and effect relationships * Conduct brief research on Roman mythology to discern and articulate why the name Pluto carries symbolic value * Analyze the narrator's past behaviors and statements to make logical inferences about the cause of a destructive fire * Identify textual details to support the claim that the second cat never existed * Use logic and textual evidence to support the claim that the narrator feels subconscious guilt over the murder of Pluto * Articulate why the narrator may be resentful of his wife * Articulate how the narrator exhibits hubris and how hubris contributes to plot development * Write with clarity, logic, and precision
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