The Monkey’s Paw: Full Lesson Plan w/ PowerPoints & Graphic Organizers

Identify the elements of plot in the story and place its events on a plot diagram

Identify and apply literary terms for setting, style, tone and mood

Draw inferences from a character's reaction and from the paw's behaviour, and support them from the text

The plan budgets roughly two to three hours of class time and marks the projector as optional - it suggests writing the terms on the board if the PowerPoints cannot be shown

Every organizer ships as an editable document alongside its PDF, so a chart can be retitled or trimmed before it is printed

The write-pair-share primer is a full procedure in itself, down to nominating speakers in advance and a sentence starter for building on a peer's idea - read it before the lesson rather than during it

Plot structure analysis - the sequence opens with the Plot Structure PowerPoint, sends groups to the Universal Plot Diagram, and asks on the worksheet which events build the rising action and its tension.

Inference from evidence - questions ask what can be inferred when Sergeant Major Morris's face whitens at the mention of his three wishes, and what the paw's movement immediately after the first wish suggests.

Structured academic discussion - the plan supplies a write-pair-share routine with nominated speakers, a sentence frame for building on a peer's idea, and guidance on giving specific praise.