"He" by H.P. Lovecraft Quiz, Analysis Worksheet, and Vocabulary Activities for High School

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Assess reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and facilitate analytical thinking with these activities covering H.P. Lovecraft's short story "He." Ideal for advanced American Literature classes and high school short story units emphasizing the fantasy and horror genres, a plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.) By engaging with these materials, students will:

  • Bolster vocabulary skills.

  • Demonstrate awareness of the narrator's attitude toward setting.

  • Infer character motivations (e.g., why the narrator explores the city at night).

  • Make informed inferences about character relationships (e.g., why the narrator and the cloaked stranger seem to get along).

  • Explore cause-and-effect relationships (e.g., what causes supernatural forces to seek vengeance).

  • Discern the intended effect of details in a given passage.

  • Articulate how Lovecraft applies situational irony in a given passage.

  • Support claims and inferences with relevant textual evidence (e.g., the claim that the narrator's first interaction with the stranger foreshadows an undesirable outcome).

Information about the selection:

  • Seeking inspiration in New York, a poet encounters a cloaked stranger who shows him unsettling visions of the past and future. The poet's subsequent screams seem to awaken supernatural forces that seek retribution.

Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres:

Assess reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and facilitate analytical thinking with these activities covering H.P. Lovecraft's short story "He." Ideal for advanced American Literature classes and high school short story units emphasizing the fantasy and horror genres, a plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.) By engaging with these materials, students will:

  • Bolster vocabulary skills.

  • Demonstrate awareness of the narrator's attitude toward setting.

  • Infer character motivations (e.g., why the narrator explores the city at night).

  • Make informed inferences about character relationships (e.g., why the narrator and the cloaked stranger seem to get along).

  • Explore cause-and-effect relationships (e.g., what causes supernatural forces to seek vengeance).

  • Discern the intended effect of details in a given passage.

  • Articulate how Lovecraft applies situational irony in a given passage.

  • Support claims and inferences with relevant textual evidence (e.g., the claim that the narrator's first interaction with the stranger foreshadows an undesirable outcome).

Information about the selection:

  • Seeking inspiration in New York, a poet encounters a cloaked stranger who shows him unsettling visions of the past and future. The poet's subsequent screams seem to awaken supernatural forces that seek retribution.

Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres:

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Assess reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and facilitate analytical thinking with these activities covering H.P. Lovecraft's short story "He." Ideal for advanced American Literature classes and high school short story units emphasizing the fantasy and horror genres, a plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are provided.