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 lesson about how mood and tone impact a reader's experience of work. Using the provided list, readers identify the words that create the...
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
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...
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.
Curated OER
Ambrose Bierce
Site from Classic Reader contains a hotlink to the full text of of many Bierce stories including "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Provides a detailed biography with photo.