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The Cask of Amontillado Unit: Hands-on Activities, Vocabulary, Plot, Final Test

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Selena Smith
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My students have been able to grow tremendously with the help of this resource. Very easy to use and extremely beneficial! Also, the "Hidden Door" project included was a huge hit!
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Looking for some new ideas to use in teaching "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe? Engage your students in this fantastic, suspenseful short story with this engaging resource that students will love!

What's Included . . .

►Step-by-step lesson plans

► Vocabulary task using 16 words from the story where students apply their knowledge of the terms

►Vocabulary cards for several game options

►Unique visual plot task with example

►Hidden Door Activity with rubric (editable), example pictures, student instructions handout(editable), and evaluation checklist (editable)

►Video demonstration of how to construct the hidden door activity

►PDF file of 17 pages of public domain images to use in the hidden door activity along with these images in an editable PowerPoint if you wish to resize them.

►Final Test in 2 versions to deter cheaters (editable) - 11 multiple choice, 9 true/false, 5 multiple choice vocabulary, and 5 short answer.

❤️ More about the hidden door 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 folding 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."

Get your complete unit today for "The Cask of Amontillado" and enjoy these interactive, hands-on activities!

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51 PDF & video demo
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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

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