THE FALL OF THE

HOUSE OF USHER
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 Essentials
 How does the setting affect a
story?
CLE 3003.8.1 Demonstrate knowledge of significant works of American literature from the
colonial period to the present and make relevant comparisons.
CLE 3003.8.2 Understand the characteristics of various literary genres (e.g., poetry, novel,
biography, short story, essay, drama).
CLE 3003.8.3 Recognize the conventions of various literary genres and understand how they
articulate the writer’s vision.
CLE 3003.8.4 Analyze works of American literature for what is suggested about the historical
period in which they were written.
CLE 3003.8.5 Know and use appropriate literary terms to derive meaning and comprehension
from various literary genres.
√3003.8.9 Identify, analyze, and evaluate the effect and use of metrics (especially iambic
pentameter), rhyme scheme (e.g., end, internal, slant, eye), rhythm, alliteration, and other
conventions of verse in complex poetry (including poetic forms such as lyric, blank verse, epic,
sonnet, dramatic poetry).
√ 3003.8.10 Recognize and identify the characteristics of lyric poetry, blank verse, free verse, epics,
sonnets, dramatic poetry, and ballads.
√3003.8.6 Identify how setting and changes in setting can affect the literary elements (e.g., plot,
character, theme, tone) in complex literary texts.
 Table of Contents for: Romanticism
Date Assignment My Score Points Possible
Name of Assignment
of (Teacher May Need to Fill In)

1
American Romanticism Outline
2
Theme NBP
3
Point of View NBP
4
“Tom Walker” Worksheet
5
Transcendentalism NBP
6
Transcendentalism Presentations Wksh
7
Last of the Mohicans Book Summary Study Questions
8
Last of the Mohicans Movie Focus Questions
9
Intro to Dark Romanticism NBP
10
“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” Wksh
11

Symbolism NBP
12

“Minister’s Black Veil”

Questions
13

“The Fall of the House of

Usher” Questions
14
15
 Let’s Think for a
Moment…
 Poe believed that all aspects of a story
should help to focus on a single effect
on the reader.
 What effect would being in a cemetery
by yourself at midnight might have on
you?
 What if you suddenly heard an
eerie, inexplicable noise?
 Time to Read!
 Open your texts to page 312.
 Be paying attention and answering
the questions as we read.

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 Historical FYI…
 Throughout history, there have been
stories of people being buried alive.
 This fear intensified in the 19th and 20th
century.
 Elaboratesystems were devised to ensure that
if one was buried alive, they could call for
help (see next slide).
 Poe wrote “The Fall of the House of
Usher” in , capitalizing on this fear.
 Historical FYI…

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 Summarizer
 You need to complete the sheet I am
handing out.
 Use your text and your question sheet
to complete this assignment ON YOUR
OWN!
Summarizer
Summarizer
 !!!Quiz!!!
• Take out a blank sheet of notebook
paper.
• Title it “Usher Quiz” and head it
properly.
• You must answer each question in a
COMPLETE sentence.
• Skip a line after each
answer.
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 !!!Quiz!!!
1. How does the narrator hear from Roderick?
2. Who is Roderick’s only living relative (be
specific).
3. Name one thing that Roderick and the
narrator did to pass the time.
4. Why is Roderick insistent on using the tomb
for the body? What was causing the noises
in the house?
5. What was causing the noise in the House of
Usher?
6. What happens to the House of Usher?