Description

If you are looking for an easy way to get your students to dig into Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, this is the product you need! The close reads help students to display their understanding of the text in a variety of ways with 7 pages of PDFs ask students multiple choice and short answer questions as well as and complete creative displays of knowledge. Then have your students complete the creative project in which they re-examine the text to determine if Roderick and Madeline Usher were actually vampires!

This product is fantastically versatile to meet a variety of needs you may need. You can use the close readings while reading The Fall of the House of Usher in depth together, as quick warmups, or even as test prep. The project will develop critical reading and thinking skills in a highly engaging way.

Here is what other teachers have said:

“My students had a great time determining if the Ushers were in fact VAMPIRES! They got to be more creative and then they realized they were doing what was essentially an argumentative essay! “- Heather D.

“My students loved during the sketching activity, and I loved that they focused on word meaning and close reading passages!”- Tara I.

“This was the perfect resource to ensure students were annotating the text and responding to standard based questions! It was a great purchase to help break down a complex story to 9th graders.”- Janel G.

However, you choose to use it, I am sure this will help sharpen your students’ skills!

Included:

• Teaching tips on how to use and differentiate the close reads
• 7-page PDF pages of four short close reads from 5 passages
• 2 one pagers
• Answer keys for the multiple choice questions and suggested rubrics for the one pagers
• teaching tips for project
• presentation to introduce the project in which students will determine if Roderick and/or Madeline were actually vampires!
• PDF handout of vampire characteristics
• 2 PDF handouts of selected passages and guiding questions to re-examine the text with
• 2 PDF handouts of a choice board to display knowledge after completing the re-examination of The Fall of the House of Usher

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