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“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe
Part 1: Choose 1 character to use in completing the following activity. (Choose carefully.)
(QUOTE = Word for word from the story. It doesn’t have to be in quotes in the story, but you would take something word for word
and put it in quotes to support your thoughts.)
1.
Choose 2 quotes to describe the character’s personality.
2.
Choose 2 quotes to describe the character’s actions.
3.
Choose 2 quotes to describe the character’s thoughts.]
4.
Choose 2 quotes to describe the characters’ relationship with other characters in the story.
5.
On the back of this page, use these quotes to support your description of this character. You must use quotes
and examples from the text to support your description. (If you state that the character is evil, you must support
this with examples from the text.) This paragraph will be 8-10 sentences in length.