Rappacinni's Daughter Close Reading

Teaching Hawthorne’s famous “Rappaccini’s Daughter”? Use this resource as a stand-alone lesson or as part of a larger short stories unit. Students will complete a variety of activities to help deeper their understanding of this work.

Included:

☆ Vocabulary exercises - using context; matching synonyms; and sentence completion
☆ Reading comprehension questions
☆ Character development
☆ Allegory - explore the allegorical connection between the story and the Garden of Eden
☆ Allusions
☆ Conflict - Students read four excerpts, then determine and explain the conflict
☆ Guilty or Not Guilty? - Is Professor Baglioni responsible for Beatrice’s death?
☆Gothic elements - Students identify Gothic and anti-Gothic elements in the text