Donna Petherbridge eci 511, Comprehensive Unit Plan, Summer II, 2003

Category Name 

Votes 

Name 

Votes 

Scariest Villian?  Montresor 

 

Zaroff 

 

Best Plot? 

“The Cask of 

Amontillado” 

 “The 

Most 

Dangerous Game” 

 

“Smartest” 

Victim? 

Fortunato   Rainsford 

 

Most 

Frightening 

Setting 

“The Cask of 

Amontillado” 

 “The 

Most 

Dangerous Game” 

 

 

 

Vocabulary: 

Characterization – 

The methods an author uses to reveal a character’s 

personality, can be direct statements by the author or indirectly inferred 

through the character’s statements, thoughts, actions, and the statements, 

thoughts and actions of other characters 

Setting – 

Time, place, context in which a story occurs. 

 

 

Middle of class, approximately 10/15 minutes: 

Class should face the area of the room with the instructor’s projected 

machine. Instructor should comment that now that the students have 

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compared and contrasted these stories, and taken a poll to see which stories 

and characters were the winners of our poll (scariest villain, best plot, 

smartest victim, most frightening setting), that students are going to work 

with this data. 

 

While projecting the computer’s information to a screen all students can see, 

explain to each group that they will be given a “

The Most Dangerous Game”

 

and “

The Cask of Amontillado” 

handout to work with the data we collected 

during this class poll (at end of lesson plan). Each group will then graph the 

data using Excel, following the directions on the handout.  Groups will also 

be asked to answer a question about why the class chose the winners, and be 

prepared to discuss their response with the class.  

 

The instructor should model using the