Gothic Literature & Suspense

Objective: SWBAT -

1. analyze suspense in a text while reading
2. analyze a narrator for reliability

• I can identify the narrator of a text.
• I can identify the type of narrator.
• I can use a graphic organizer.

Writing Response:

1. What makes a story suspenseful?
2. Do you trust the narrator in this passage?  Why or why not?

Dogs are disgusting animals!  They are loud, dirty, and always biting people.

To Do:
1) Independent Reading
2) Reading Journal
3) Assign the second book report project: The ABC Book Report
4) We will review "The Tell-Tale Heart" from the previous week, and will discuss the notion of an unreliable narrator
5) Students will continue to read in small groups "The Tell-Tale Heart"
6) As students read, they will write create a T-Chart

• The left column will contain information that makes the audience suspicious of him (5 characteristics)
• The right column will contain information that makes the audience trust him (5 characteristics)

7) Students will also answer the Close Read Suspense Questions (4 total)

Reading Journal:
1) Title and Author
2) Pg. Start - Pg. Finish
3) When is the setting of your story (time and place)?