Cask of amontillado

Short story:

Objectives:

By the end of the session, the students are able to:

Cognitive:1. Apply the elements of short story2. Breakdown confusing sentences to

help draw attention to elements Poe’s style.

3. Analyze Poe’s writing style

Affective:1. Reflect on the damage that an

insult or an injury can do to a person

2. Show sympathy towards Fortunato’s predicament

Psychomotor:3. Pick a scenario then pantomime

or interpret through a dance4. Imitate eerie sounds use in Poe’s

description

MaterialsPowerpoint presentationSuspense or horrifying background sound

HandoutsPictures, images

Pre-teaching (30 mins)Play a horrifying sound while the

students are coming in to set the moodChecking of assignment - elements of short story- diagnose what they have understood

in the reading passage- critical viewing of a picture similar to

Fortunato’s clothes

During teaching (1 hr and 30 mins))Lecture-discussion, Group work, Introduce Edgar Allan PoeDiscuss the story and Discussion and application of the elementswhile discussing inject: - eerie sounds, different images related to the

story - then compare or contrast them to the description

of Poe’s storyBreakdown confusing sentencesParaphrase selected passages to contrast it with

Poe’s original passage

POST teaching (30 mins)

- Review of elements- Reflection on the characters, refining the affective objectives

- Assessing what the students have learned by choosing a scenario to work on psychomotor objectives