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The Monkey’s Paw Short Story Unit for Middle and High School
This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: August Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!
Skills Focus:
Elements of Plot Review
Citing Text Evidence
Context Clues & Situational Clues
Types of Foreshadowing
Mood (and Mood Shifts)
Analyzing Dialogue
Essential Question
See the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit.
This is a comprehensive, Common Core-Aligned Unit for the popular WW Jacobs short story, "The Monkey's Paw," packed with a ton of rigorous resources for teaching with this short story. I’ve also included within the unit instructions for accessing the text for "The Monkey's Paw" if you don’t have it.
It would take me forever to explain to you just how uniquely amazing this resource is, so go ahead and see for yourself. The first month’s selection is FREE! This resource includes a full two weeks of reading lessons. Please take the time to carefully examine this resource and come back when you decide you need to sign up for a year’s worth of short story units like this one.
List of Activities & Standards Difficulty Level: *Easy **Moderate ***Challenge
1: Review Lesson Elements of Plot*
2: Vocabulary V.1 Context + Situational Clues**
3: Vocabulary V.2 Context Clues Only*
4: Annotation Guide (Vocabulary, Situational)*
5: Plot Pyramid**
6: Comprehension Quiz*
7: Types of Foreshadowing Lesson**
8: Annotation Guide (Foreshadowing)**
9: Foreshadowing Graphic Organizer***
10: Mood Mini-Lesson*
11: Annotation Guide (Mood)**
12: Mood Shifts Graphic Organizer**
13: ACE Mini-Lesson Citing Text Evidence*
14: Text-Dependent Questions***
15: Advanced Literary Elements Challenge***
16: Comprehension Skills Test**
17: Short Story vs. Movie Analysis***
18: Write an Opinion Paragraph**
19: Evaluate an Argument ***
20: Essential Question***
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