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Week 9: Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket

 
     Study Guide/Sample Test

     Today's Jeopardy Game 1
                                Game 2


     English Project: Student Videos telling the story

                  

Here is a PowerPoint that is a nice review for plot, sequence and cause/effect.
9 Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets


 
Week 3: The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs 
The Monkey's Paw, Online Text
 
Here is a video skit done by a group of high school students.  Pretty decent for kids, and very true to the book:
 

 


The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Monkey's Paw 48:18

**this was not the video I originally thought it was.  I apologize for this not being the version Hitchcock did that was "true" to the original story.  This is still good, but not exactly like what we read.**



Did you know?

  • The story's theme was one of the inspirations for Stephen King's novel, Pet Sematary. The Jacobs story had previously been mentioned in his novel The Dead Zone and the novella, Apt Pupil.
  • One of the stories from The Simpsons Halloween special, Treehouse of Horror II, has the same name, and is clearly a parody of this story.
  • The Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" is based on the story, with the main characters being two school kids who receive a vulture's claw from a witch they pranked.
  • In an episode of Billy and Mandy, called Wishbones, Billy and Mandy find a wishing skull, and all of the wishes go wrong in terrible ways.
  • In the Manga xxxHOLiC, a teacher buys the monkey's paw from the character Yuuko, even though she is advised against it. The monkey's paw actually gives five wishes in this story arc, but all have negative effects, each one more serious than the last.
  • Industrial/goth band the Electric Hellfire Club released a song called "The Monkey's Paw" on their album "Witness."
  • The X-Files episode 'Je Souhaite' features a jinniyah (i.e., a female genie) who will grant three wishes to whomever possess a magic rug to which she is bound. The story is yet another take on 'The Monkey's Paw' since the results of these wishes are mailicious at worst and, at best, ironic twists on the intent of the wish. For example, Fox Mulder's wish for 'peace on earth' ends with Agent Mulder alone in a world devoid of all life.
  • In The Sims 2 for consoles, when a player selects Search Couch while sitting on a sofa, he can find a Mysterious Zombie Monkey Paw.



Week 1-2: Magdalena Looking by Susan Vreeland


Susan Vreeland's Website 

Scroll to the bottom of the page to read Magdalena Looking and Artful Research


Susan Vreeland is the author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and the story of Magdalena Looking is an excerpt from this book.


Interview with Vreeland about her research on Vermeer

 Essential Vermeer
Essentialvermeer.com has become the internet's essential tool for exploring every facet of the life and work of the great 17th-c. Dutch painting master, Johannes Vermeer.



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Language Arts with Ms. Wall
Sebastian River High School
Indian River County, Florida