Gothics Bundle - Presentation, Guided Notes, Pit and the Pendulum Packet

This Gothics bundle includes a PowerPoint presentation with guided notes American Gothic literature as well as the full text of the Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe with guided reading questions

The presentation lesson includes:

- The beginning of American Romanticism and the Gothics

- Tenets of American Romantic Literature

- Tenets of American Gothic Literature

- Common themes and motifs in Gothic Literature

- A short author study on 6 major Gothic writers (Brockden, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, Dickinson)

- Guided notes including a chart to organize author information

The Pit and the Pendulum Guided Reading Packet includes:

- The full text of the Pit and the Pendulum

- Guided questions chunked with different parts of the text

- Questions involve comprehension and analyzation for figurative language, syntax, and gothic tenets

- Reflection Questions at the end