"Three Skeleton Key"

I'm student teaching in a 7th grade classroom with students of varying reading ability levels. We're on the block schedule -- 3 100-minute classes with about 30 students in each.

My coop has asked me to plan a short story unit, and one of the stories she asked me to include is "Three Skeleton Key."

I'm not finding the supplementary materials I've looked through so far that helpful on this story (more grammar focused than I'm going for), and I wondered if any of you have advice on teaching this story and/or what worked for your students?

The story may be good for teaching literary elements of foreshadowing, suspense, imagery...it'll be following a unit on "The Highwayman" (narrative poem but coop wanted it in my short story unit, and it fits fairly well -- they will have hopefully reviewed onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, and setting well enough to have a working knowledge of thoese elements).

Thanks!

[Lisa's Hotscakes]

Sometimes it is just easier to write your own supplementary materials/questions/activities. That's what I do.

One thing that I am doing with the story is providing background on lighthouses and lighthouse keepers so that the students understand what's going on in the story in the first place. Another fun thing to do is read the story aloud and have the students pass around a fake rubber rat (since it is Halloween time and rats are a huge part of the story) as they read. Whoever holds the rat is the reader. They think it's cute, and it gets them into wanting to read. I also designed a graphic organizer that looks like a lighthouse where the students will label the parts of a story (exposition, rising action, etc.) in five sections of a lighthouse. Again, it's just something cute to keep their interest yet still keep focus on the story.

Go look for lighthouse pictures on the internet and share those. You can have them write freewriting journals about what they think a lighthouse keeper's job might be. They can also write 1st person and share what their experience is as a lighthouse keeper. Have them recreate the setting of the story with materials you provide or with materials from home. If at school, let them work in groups. They can include notecards to prove where they found the info in the text to give them clues to the setting. Internet access, you can look for webquests to use in class. You can group them and have them research and present different aspects of the story: survival techniques, the ocean, fish, lighthouses, dangerous jobs, etc... There are also other stories that are good follow ups: Survive the Savage Seas (nonfiction), Hatchet (novel about survival).

You can find the MP3 of Three Skeleton Key here:
http://horrorforkids.wordpress.com/2...vincent-price/

Or here, if the above link isn't working.
http://www.scaryforkids.com/three-sk...vincent-price/

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