Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement the Gothic short story “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe. A crossword puzzle, a word search activity, a vocabulary application worksheet, the public domain narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: abeyance, amiability, anomalous, apathetic, catalepsy, diffuse, feeble, gibbering, impunity, indubitably, insufferable, interment, lethargic, melancholy, obstinacy, palpable, petulantly, procure, solemn, spasmodic, vague, and yowl.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
- Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
- Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
- Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
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Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories - Quizzes and Analysis Activities (Volume 2)
This short story bundle includes vocabulary games, comprehension quizzes, and close reading inference worksheets to ensure high school students can read with a purpose and exercise critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by Edgar Allan Poe, are featured: "**The Fall of the House of Usher**," "**The Tell-Tale Heart**," "**The Pit and the Pendulum**," and "**The Premature Burial**." Answer keys and copies of the public domain texts are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these activities, students will: * Read for literal comprehension * Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings * Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences * Infer the intended effects of the author's word choices and narrative techniques * Demonstrate knowledge of the conventions of Dark Romanticism * Discern the intended effects of the author's diction, punctuation, and narrative techniques * Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop * Apply knowledge of literary devices such as metaphor, foreshadowing, personification, situational irony, and more * Conduct brief research on Swiss painter Henry Fuseli to develop greater understanding of Poe's allusion to him in "The Fall of the House of Usher" * Explore the connection between the plot of "The Fall of the House of Usher" and the content of a poem titled "The Haunted Palace" * Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence * Write about Gothic fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision
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"The Premature Burial" Quiz, Close Reading, and Vocabulary Development Bundle
"The Premature Burial" by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story of special appeal to high school students interested in human psychology, horror stories, and Halloween. With this bundle of assessment materials, English teachers will save valuable time without sacrificing rigor in the classroom. Included are the following: a plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search activity, a vocabulary application worksheet, the public domain narrative, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. This resource may facilitate small-group discussions in which students decode language and pose/respond to questions relating to plot, broad topics, and character development. Using this resource for structured guidance, students will improve their ability to present information, conclusions, and supporting textual evidence clearly and convincingly. By engaging with these materials, students will: * Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly * Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words * Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings * Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences * Consider the greater significance of given details * Discern the intended effects of the author's diction, punctuation, and narrative techniques * Examine how characters think, behave, interact, and develop * Apply knowledge of various literary devices including eye dialect, onomatopoeia, allusion, pun, dramatic irony, situational irony, and more * Draw parallels between the narrative and a featured nonfiction passage * Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence * Write about Gothic fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision
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