H.P. Lovecraft's Short Stories - Quizzes and Analysis Activities (Volume 1)

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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: "The Outsider," "The Beast in the Cave," "The Tomb," and "The Hound." 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

  • Discern 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

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

  • Draw upon knowledge of mythology to make connections between characters and mythological figures

  • Apply knowledge of literary devices such as dramatic irony, foreshadowing, oxymoron, personification, symbolism, and situational irony

  • Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence

  • Write about high-quality fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision

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: "The Outsider," "The Beast in the Cave," "The Tomb," and "The Hound." 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

  • Discern 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

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

  • Draw upon knowledge of mythology to make connections between characters and mythological figures

  • Apply knowledge of literary devices such as dramatic irony, foreshadowing, oxymoron, personification, symbolism, and situational irony

  • Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence

  • Write about high-quality fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision

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: "The Outsider," "The Beast in the Cave," "The Tomb," and "The Hound." Answer keys and copies of the public domain texts are included.