"What the Moon Brings" by H.P. Lovecraft Quiz, Worksheet, and Vocabulary Games

Evaluate reading comprehension, facilitate college readiness vocabulary development, and sharpen literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering H.P. Lovecraft's short story "What the Moon Brings," a brief piece featuring compelling elements for high school students: a strange dreamscape, the discovery of an underwater city, and an anxious narrator. (The briefness of the narrative makes it a helpful time-filler for awkward gaps in teaching schedules.) A plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, vocabulary activities, answer keys, and the text are included. 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:

• Read for literal comprehension

• Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed

• 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

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

• Apply knowledge of various literary devices including personification, foreshadowing, epiphany, sibilance, and more

• Explore the symbolism of a black condor as it is portrayed in the narrative

• Choose an applicable theme in the context of a given passage

• Defend ideas and claims with valid reasoning and textual evidence

• Write ideas with clarity, accuracy, and precision

• Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

More materials are available for teaching short stories:

• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Volume 1) - Google and printable

• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Volume 2) - Google and printable

• The Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Volume 1) - Google and printable

• The Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Volume 2) - Google and printable

• The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne - Google and printable

• The Works of Ray Bradbury - Google and printable

• Thematic Short Story Unit on Fear and Curiosity - Google and printable