The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe Hands-on Activity with Rubric

Need a fresh, super engaging activity to assess the students' understanding of "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe? You have found it! Get students thinking, analyzing, inferring, and creating with this fun, hands-on hidden door task! Students are amazed by the hidden compartment and love the design freedom that accompanies this activity.

This activity assesses students' knowledge of characterization, irony, point of view, reliable and unreliable narrator as well as reading comprehension, evaluation skills, and citing specific references from the text to prove points. In addition, students must be neat and creative when incorporating required information on the hidden door foldie activity. This is a great review activity, or it can be used in the place of a test to assess students' understanding of "The Cask of Amontillado."

What's included . . .

► Step-by-step teacher instructions

► Student instructions (editable)

► Student/peer evaluation checklist (editable)

► Rubric (editable)

► Video demonstration of me making the hidden door - your students can follow along without you having to instruct on this.

► 17 pages of public domain images to use in the foldie, so you don't have to search forever to find some for your students. Print whichever pages you wish to use. These come in an editable PowerPoint if you want to resize images. Of course, students can find their own, but this gives you and your students a great starting point.

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