Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program
Reading Literature - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Ambrose Bierce’s short story, is used to model how structural moves, the decisions an author makes about setting, point of view, time order, etc., can be examined to reveal an author’s purpose. Groups...
K20 LEARN
Mood and Tone at Owl Creek Bridge: Mood and Tone
Two versions of movie trailers for the film Mary Poppins launch a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious activity about how mood and tone impact a reader's experience of work. Using the provided list, readers identify the words that create...
Curated OER
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Students read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". They apply what they discovered about plot summary to the beginning of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". They draw a plot summary sketch and label the introduction and rising...
Curated OER
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Tenth graders read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". They apply what they discovered about plot summary to the beginning of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". They draw a plot summary sketch and label the introduction and rising...
Curated OER
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Students complete a review of the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" in preparation for an exam. Working in groups, they participate in a review game of Jeopard. The game serves to review the terms and themes related to...
Curated OER
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Lesson Plan 5
Young scholars continue to read the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek". In groups, they define the word foreshadowing. They identify the points in the story that they believe are the rising action, climax, falling action and resolution....
Curated OER
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge LP
Students engage in a reading of literature with the intention of working on the reading comprehension skill of identifying the plot of a story. They conduct independent reading looking for the plot and fill in the graphic organizer for...
Curated OER
Ending At Owl Creek
Young scholars engage in a reading of "An Occurrence At Owl Creek" in order to work on the reading comprehension skills of prediction with looking at the ending. They predict the next events leading to the ending and summarize how it...
Curated OER
Literature: Plot Patterns
Students read and analyze "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" for plot patterns. In a plot summary pyramid, they organize the story elements in sequential order. To illustrate plot summary techniques, students cite examples from...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator
Stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce provide readers with an opportunity to investigate unreliable narrators. The lesson plan begins with an activity about different types of point of view and continues as scholars apply their...
Curated OER
Irony At Owl Creek
Students engage in study of literature in order to identify the use of irony in the context of reading two stories. They are compared and contrasted and the irony is exposed. The activities include the answering of several key questions.
Annenberg Foundation
Gothic Undercurrents
Terror, mystery, excitement. American writers of the 19th century, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, used these elements to create morally ambiguous tales that challenged the prevailing belief in...
Curated OER
Things Aren't Always What They Seem
Students use video and the Internet to make predictions, draw conclusions, determine conflict and point of view while reading a short story. In this short story analysis lesson, students watch a related video and complete a prediction...
Curated OER
Introuction to Irony
Students investigate the literary concept of irony and how it fits into literature. They also brainstorm real life examples of irony and how they apply to people. Students identify their favorite examples of irony.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Realism:"an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Ambrose Bierce
This lesson focuses on the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. It discusses the use of literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, forshadowing, flashback and flash-forward, and offers a PDF of...
CommonLit
Common Lit: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A learning module that begins with "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
Other
The Ambrose Bierce Project: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
This site is devoted the work of writer Ambrose Bierce. Visitors can view pages from the printed editon of the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and read an annotated version of the text. Links within the site provide...
Swiss Educ
Swiss Educ: "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
This rich site offers information about the setting, military terms, and an audio file of the story being read along with a wealth of other information.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
Text of the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Ambrose Bierce
This site features the author Ambrose Bierce including the full text of 74 short stories including "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce
This Bibliomania site provides the full text to over 25 short stories by Ambrose Bierce! Each story is accessible by just clicking on the link of the one that you want to read. A great site to check out on the subject.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents: Ambrose Bierce
This very brief biography features the literary contributions of Ambrose Bierce. Click on "Ambrose Bierce Activities" for related resources.