This resource includes everything you need to teach one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short stories - “The Fall of the House of Usher”.
One of the masters of the Gothic literature genre, Poe is often a staple in English literature courses. His short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” - a tale of an isolated family and a decaying house - is a perfect introduction to this genre. This resource can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as part of a larger short stories and/or Gothic literature unit. Don’t have time to cover everything? Use the handouts that align with the focus of your unit.
Included in this resource:
❊ Suggested lesson plan
❊ Edgar Allan Poe introduction Prezi (including a link, offline version, and PDF version - for those inevitable days when technology doesn’t work)
❊ Prezi guided notes
❊ Vocabulary handouts: 3 different handouts that cover 10 words from the text
→ Context Clues: Students use context clues to determine the meaning of the words and then compare their definitions to the actual definitions
→ Exercises: Match the vocabulary words to their synonyms; complete the sentences using the correct vocabulary word; write a paragraph using the vocabulary words
→ Quiz: Match vocabulary words and definitions; choose the correct word for provided synonyms; write an original paragraph using the vocabulary words
❊ Five key focus handouts:
→Plot: answer plot-based questions and complete a plot diagram
→ Symbolism: review six symbols and provide an explanation of the symbol. Then, write a short paragraph describing Poe's use of symbolism.
→ Narrator Reliability: Review traits of reliable and unreliable then determine which the narrator of "The Fall of the House of Usher" is
→ Gothic Elements: Review elements of Gothic literature and find examples of each within the text
→ Topics and Themes: Examine how the text treats seven topics; create a thematic statement; complete a theme development paragraph (includes scaffolded and non-scaffolded versions)
❊ Writing Extensions
❊ Two grammar focus handouts:
→ Sentence Types: Review the four types of sentences; determine the type of sentence for ten excerpts from text; mark independent and dependent clauses.
→ Parallelism: Review parallelism and four types of parallelism problems. Identify parallelism in five excerpts. Rewrite three sentences without parallelism.
❊ Suggested answer key
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