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This is a great article on Mob Mentality with follow up questions. I use this with To Kill a Mockingbird but could be used in lots of capacities.

Five engaging court cases for students to investigate! This is a great activity which asks students to predict: Innocent or Guilty? They will need to provide evidence from the cases to support their prediction. Students will then be able to see if their prediction was correct. They are then asked follow up questions.

This assignment is sure to become a new favorite. In this fun, brain teasing assignments, students will read the literary definitions carefully, and then put each into their own words on the lines below. They must only put one word on each line- no more, no less! Students will have to choose their words carefully to capture the main idea of the definition.

This creative and thorough assignment can be assigned to any short story or novel. Students are asked to create their own book jacket requiring different sections to be completed. A model, template and rubric is included! Fully editable!

This helpful cheat-sheet for Gothic Literature helps students identify elements of Gothic.

This colorful and attention grabbing document is sure to get your students' attention. A quick review of the elements of Gothic Literature followed by an evaluation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast for Gothic elements. Also included are questions comparing the two movies with one another.

This worksheet is great with the Fact, Opinion or Bias handout. It reviews in sentence and story format fact and opinion. Great as test prep or skill review.

This handout and activity is a great way to introduce, review and reinforce different types of characterization. It includes some review questions as well as a dynamic character writing activity. Covers: Flat/Round Static/Dynamic Types of Characterization

Instagram template plus second slide for adding captions, quotes and hashtags. This is set up for Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee, but can be can be edited and adapted for any story. Includes super helpful instructions on how to add images and crop to shapes.

This creative and thorough assignment can be assigned to any short story or novel. Students are asked to create their own book jacket requiring different sections to be completed. A model, template and rubric is included!

In this fun activity, students will be asked to imagine they're the crazed narrator from Tell-Tale Heart. They will have just finished their rant (the story) while testifying at their trial, but the prosecutor has more questions for you. Student responses will encourage critical thinking, close reading and analysis. Fun way to wrap of the story!

This great webquest delves into the exciting and unsettling life of Edgar Allan Poe. Students will become literary detectives learning about his life and works.

This comprehensive packet begins with student notes reviewing the 7 most common types of conflict. Also included are 3 pages of activities covering : Defining the Conflict Types of Conflicts Understanding Conflict Writing out conflicts Applying Conflict

Multiple choice figurative language packet WITH ANSWER KEY!

This document based off of Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven," includes both comprehension and literary questions. This is provided on a fully editable Google Doc.

This helpful handout reviews the differences between fact, opinion and bias. This goes great with the fact and opinion review packet.

This is a great way to critically and creatively look at any character. In this comprehensive activity, students will be asked to do the following: 1. Create a picture of one of the characters in your text based on information provided about them by the author in the book. 2. Describe their personality based on three examples you can find in the text. 3. Suggest how they might handle certain situations based on what you’ve read and support your ideas. 4. Make a prediction about how your charact

This is a great way to break the ice with new students at any point in the year, but especially during the early days of school. This gets students appropriately out of their seats and interacting with new members of their class.

Follow up questions for the Fall of the House of Usher. These free-response questions will engage students in close reading and critical thinking. These should be done upon complete of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.

This is a multiple choice vocabulary test based upon The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.