Engage your students with this "The Monkey's Paw" Anticipation Guide, a discussion-driven, high-interest pre-reading activity designed for grades 7 and up. This Gothic literature resource invites students to explore timeless themes of fate, greed, superstition, control, and the cost of desire before reading W. W. Jacobs’s chilling short story.Through debatable anticipation statements and reflective writing prompts, students will examine the human urge to control destiny and the consequences that