"The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin Quiz and Close Reading Bundle
Help high school students extend reading comprehension and analyze plot developments in "The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin with this bundle of formative assessments. Delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats, this bundle offers a plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, craft analysis activity, and answer keys. (Alternatively, a Google Drive version of this bundle is available.)
By completing the plot-based quiz, students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:
The narrator's emotional state
The narrator's characterization of her husband
The relationship between the narrator and her sister
A quality about the narrator's husband that "brings the shivers on" her
The moon's role in the husband's transformation
The "curse in his blood"
The husband's tendency to leave home abruptly
The husband's strange smell upon returning
The children's fear of their own father
A physical transformation
The story's resolution
By completing the close reading activity, students will perform the following tasks:
Identify what the text states explicitly as well as implicitly
Define complex words and phrases as they are used in the text
Explore how complex characters think, behave, develop, and interact
Examine the protagonist's internal conflict
Apply knowledge of literary devices including anaphora, simile, and foreshadowing
Determine the significance of the narrator's "grief howl"
Examine how the author's wording contributes to the audience's understanding of the narrator's mental state
Cite textual details that evoke a sense of sympathy within readers
Analyze the author's craft to explain how language contributes to the major revelation near the story's conclusion
Write ideas with clarity, accuracy, and precision
By completing the craft analysis activity, students will do the following:
Analyze how the author used characterization, description, imperfect grammar, foreshadowing, irony, simile, and redundancy to establish a tense and abnormal tone in the narrative
A variety of resources are available for teaching horror and supernatural fiction:
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol. 1) - Google and printable
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol. 2) - Google and printable
Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Vol. 1) - Google and printable
Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Vol. 2) - Google and printable
Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Vol. 3) - Google and printable
Help high school students extend reading comprehension and analyze plot developments in "The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin with this bundle of formative assessments. Delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats, this bundle offers a plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, craft analysis activity, and answer keys. (Alternatively, a Google Drive version of this bundle is available.)
By completing the plot-based quiz, students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:
The narrator's emotional state
The narrator's characterization of her husband
The relationship between the narrator and her sister
A quality about the narrator's husband that "brings the shivers on" her
The moon's role in the husband's transformation
The "curse in his blood"
The husband's tendency to leave home abruptly
The husband's strange smell upon returning
The children's fear of their own father
A physical transformation
The story's resolution
By completing the close reading activity, students will perform the following tasks:
Identify what the text states explicitly as well as implicitly
Define complex words and phrases as they are used in the text
Explore how complex characters think, behave, develop, and interact
Examine the protagonist's internal conflict
Apply knowledge of literary devices including anaphora, simile, and foreshadowing
Determine the significance of the narrator's "grief howl"
Examine how the author's wording contributes to the audience's understanding of the narrator's mental state
Cite textual details that evoke a sense of sympathy within readers
Analyze the author's craft to explain how language contributes to the major revelation near the story's conclusion
Write ideas with clarity, accuracy, and precision
By completing the craft analysis activity, students will do the following:
Analyze how the author used characterization, description, imperfect grammar, foreshadowing, irony, simile, and redundancy to establish a tense and abnormal tone in the narrative
A variety of resources are available for teaching horror and supernatural fiction:
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol. 1) - Google and printable
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol. 2) - Google and printable
Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Vol. 1) - Google and printable
Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Vol. 2) - Google and printable
Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Vol. 3) - Google and printable
Help high school students extend reading comprehension and analyze plot developments in "The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin with this bundle of formative assessments. Delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats, this bundle offers a plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, craft analysis activity, and answer keys. (Alternatively, a Google Drive version of this bundle is available.)
By completing the plot-based quiz, students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:
The narrator's emotional state
The narrator's characterization of her husband
The relationship between the narrator and her sister
A quality about the narrator's husband that "brings the shivers on" her
The moon's role in the husband's transformation
The "curse in his blood"
The husband's tendency to leave home abruptly
The husband's strange smell upon returning
The children's fear of their own father
A physical transformation
The story's resolution
By completing the close reading activity, students will perform the following tasks:
Identify what the text states explicitly as well as implicitly
Define complex words and phrases as they are used in the text
Explore how complex characters think, behave, develop, and interact
Examine the protagonist's internal conflict
Apply knowledge of literary devices including anaphora, simile, and foreshadowing
Determine the significance of the narrator's "grief howl"
Examine how the author's wording contributes to the audience's understanding of the narrator's mental state
Cite textual details that evoke a sense of sympathy within readers
Analyze the author's craft to explain how language contributes to the major revelation near the story's conclusion
Write ideas with clarity, accuracy, and precision
By completing the craft analysis activity, students will do the following:
Analyze how the author used characterization, description, imperfect grammar, foreshadowing, irony, simile, and redundancy to establish a tense and abnormal tone in the narrative
A variety of resources are available for teaching horror and supernatural fiction:
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol. 1) - Google and printable
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol. 2) - Google and printable
Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Vol. 1) - Google and printable
Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Vol. 2) - Google and printable
Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Vol. 3) - Google and printable