Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories - Quizzes, Vocabulary Games, and Analysis Worksheets

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 practice critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, are featured: "Young Goodman Brown," "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," "The Minister's Black Veil," and "The Hollow of the Three Hills." 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 bundle option is available.) By engaging with these materials, students will do the following:

• Read for literal comprehension

• Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words

• Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings

• 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

• Describe tone in context

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

• Apply knowledge of literary devices including foreshadowing, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, sibilance, simile, situational irony, symbolism, and more

• Consider themes in context

• Conduct research on the author's life

• Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence

• Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision

• Come to class/leave class better prepared to discuss literary materials

Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres:

• Christmas Fiction - Google and printable

• Coming-of-Age Fiction - Google and printable

• Fantasy - Google and printable

• Horror - Google and printable

• Psychological Fiction - Google and printable

• Science Fiction - Google and printable

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