H.P. Lovecraft's Short Stories - Quizzes and Analysis Activities (Volume 3)

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This short story bundle includes vocabulary games, comprehension quizzes, and close reading inference worksheets to ensure high school students can read with a purpose and exercise critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by H.P. Lovecraft, are featured: "In the Vault," "The Terrible Old Man," "Dagon," and "Polaris." Answer keys and copies of the public domain texts are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these activities, students will:

  • Read for literal comprehension

  • Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings

  • Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences

  • Infer the intended effects of the author's word choices and narrative techniques

  • Describe tone in context

  • Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop

  • Apply knowledge of literary devices including allusion, callback, foreshadowing, hyperbaton, personification, sibilance, situational irony, theme, and more

  • Conduct brief research to draw parallels between the author's life and the plot of "The Terrible Old Man"

  • Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence

  • Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision

  • Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres:

This short story bundle includes vocabulary games, comprehension quizzes, and close reading inference worksheets to ensure high school students can read with a purpose and exercise critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by H.P. Lovecraft, are featured: "In the Vault," "The Terrible Old Man," "Dagon," and "Polaris." Answer keys and copies of the public domain texts are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these activities, students will:

  • Read for literal comprehension

  • Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings

  • Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences

  • Infer the intended effects of the author's word choices and narrative techniques

  • Describe tone in context

  • Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop

  • Apply knowledge of literary devices including allusion, callback, foreshadowing, hyperbaton, personification, sibilance, situational irony, theme, and more

  • Conduct brief research to draw parallels between the author's life and the plot of "The Terrible Old Man"

  • Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence

  • Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision

  • Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres:

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This short story bundle includes vocabulary games, comprehension quizzes, and close reading inference worksheets to ensure high school students can read with a purpose and exercise critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by H.P. Lovecraft, are featured: "In the Vault," "The Terrible Old Man," "Dagon," and "Polaris."