"The Woman's Ghost Story" Quiz, Close Reading Worksheet, and Vocabulary Games

Evaluate general reading comprehension, facilitate vocabulary development, and sharpen critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of formative assessments covering Algernon Blackwood’s “The Woman’s Ghost Story,” a narrative of special appeal to high school students interested in Halloween, supernatural fiction, and the paranormal realm. A plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the short story, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will perform the following tasks:

• Read for literal comprehension
• Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings
• Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
• Demonstrate knowledge of the conventions of Dark Romanticism
• Consider the effects of the author’s language and narrative techniques
• Determine the purpose of a given passage
• Discern tone in context
• Examine how characters think, behave, interact, and develop
• Apply knowledge of literary devices with an emphasis on simile, metaphor, imagery, hyperbole, foreshadowing, personification, epiphany, and more
• Conduct brief online research on women’s rights in the context of England in the early 1900s
• Explore themes in context
• Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
• Write about Gothic fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision