The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories Lesson Plan

Read the last three stories: "Beyond the Wall," "A Watcher by The Dead," and "Moxon's Master."

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.5

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.6

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4

4. 4

   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Beyond the Wall

The narrator is traveling and stops in San Francisco to visit an old friend, Mohun Dampier. Dampier was once young and handsome, very...