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Free 12th grade short stories resources for Microsoft Word
The Most Dangerous Game Pre-Reading activity
This is a pre-reading/bell ringer activity that will help students get in the frame of mind as to where the story is taking place.
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6th - 12th
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SDAIE Short Story Unit for 9th/10th Grade ELA - California State Standards
This is a Literary Analysis Unit designed to teach the concepts of Characterization, Point of View, Irony, and Figurative Language, reinforce the concept of basic essay structure, and allow students to practice gathering and evaluating the audience impact of evidence from a literary text. It is based on the California State Standards for 9th/10th grade ELA, but is easily convertible to Common Core Standards with few changes. It embeds SDAIE strategies throughout, and is hyper-scaffolded for the
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9th - 12th
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Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Letter to the Editor
This is a writing assignment that was used to accompany Shirley Jackson's story, "The Lottery". Before we began the assignment, we held our own class lottery, in which two students got the tickets with the dreaded black dot. Instead of continuing with the violence of the tradition, we did the writing assignment.
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9th - 12th
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Tell Tale Heart Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer that follows Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell Tale Heart. Asks students to examine the short story for examples of how the author uses suspense. Aligned to common core standards!
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7th - 12th
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Essay/Narrative/Story Mind Map and Outline Prewriting Activity
A graphic organizer to help students brainstorm, pre-write, outline, organize, and create their ideas prior to writing. Suitable for any grade, ideal for 4-12 grade. Editable MS Word document. This lesson is student-centered, meaning:--it allows you to become a facilitator!--happier teachers!--happier students!--happier administrators!Connect with us:Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/shiningscholareducationTwitter:https://twitter.com/ShiningScholarInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/shining_schol
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Harrison Bergeron Short Story Test
This 12 question multiple-choice quiz plus 1 short answer and 1 bonus essay assesses student understanding from recall to high-level inferencing using text evidence questions for the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.The story is a dystopian science fiction piece about society in 2081 where individuals are forced handicaps to make them intellectually and physically equal to everyone else. George and Hazel Bergeron have their 14 year old son, Harrison, taken away because of his exc
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9th - 12th
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Elements of a Short Story Graphic Organizer and Worksheet
Elements of a Short Story Graphic Organizer and Worksheet
This is a 2 page graphic organizer that will help your students learn about and plot the important elements of any short story. It is also a great companion activity to use when watching a movie. It also has colorful borders and graphics that make it an appealing instuctional aid.
Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education
"Thank You, Ma'am" 5-4-3-2-1--A Reading Comprehension Strategy in Five Numbers
Give Me 5-4-3-2-1—A Reading Comprehension Strategy in Five Numbers This guided-notes format asks students to give you the 5-4-3-2-1 over what they’ve read. This unique format takes those individual numbers and assigns items, quotes, characters, terms, vocabulary, etc. to them, which can cover a wide variety of comprehension pieces within their reading. This formatting can be quite diverse for whatever works you may cover—novels, short stories, drama, poetry—because no matter what, the numbers st
Grades:
7th - 12th
Lamb to the Slaughter by Dahl/ Story / Critical Thinking Questions
Please find attached the story and 14 critical analysis questions. I do not own the copyrights to this story but it can be found online free of charge. The questions that are attached have come from multiple sources over the years and I do not claim that I wrote them all. With that being said, here you go! A GREAT short story with some really insightful questions. ENJOY!
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8th - 12th
Short Story Planning Graphic Organizer
This two-page document gives students a chance to plan their short stories. There is a blank plot diagram and spaces for character development, a conflict outline and a description of setting. This is a useful tool for students at many levels to plan their story writing. Let me know what you think!
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5th - 12th
"Fall of the House of Usher" Theme Activity
In his definition of the short story, Poe stated that “truth is often, and in very great degree, the aim of the short story.” In other words, in addition to being constructed to achieve a single effect, short stories are often written to make a point, or express a general truth about life. The general truth a story expresses is the story’s theme. There have been many different interpretations of the theme of “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Students will read 6 themes, choose one, and find e
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10th - 12th
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Ned the Ghastly Ghoul: Decodable Text Silent Letters: kn, gn, wr, gh, gu, -mb
This short story is a decodable text featuring the silent letter patterns: gh, gu, kn, gn, wr, and -mb. The story also used advanced vocabulary in repeated context for practice with deeper text while still using the decodable skills.
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1st - 12th
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher" Full Text
From Electric English...
Here is a clean, fresh copy of Poe's short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher". There are activities that accomapany this story in my store as well. All that being said, use it for whatever you want.... It's FREE and a great story :)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Lady or the Tiger Reading Guide and Key
This resource was created to be used with the short story, “The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton. The Reading Guide provides the students with a close read of the text with dependent questions that help target the Common core State Standards for Literature. This guide helps students with comprehension to help determine what the author is saying? The student reading guide is ready to duplicate for classroom use and teacher key for the test is included. Other resources are also available f
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9th - 12th
"The Devil and Tom Walker" study guide questions
This study guide contains 22 questions for “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving that can be used as a review activity or as the students read independently. The questions hit different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, allowing the students to reflect upon what they read as well as let the teacher know whether or not the students comprehend the reading. Includes answers.Questions can also be used as a question bank for making exams or quizzes. Includes the answer key.The study guide is i
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9th - 12th
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Literary Element Notes for Short Stories
This is a quick resource to use for teaching literary elements in short stories. In addition to terms and definitions there is an explanation to helps students understand how to show evidence for each device. You can modify to remove the literary terms and provide it as a note sheet for students. The table format makes it easy to cut into sections and have students pair the words and definitions for independent practice.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Mother's Day Book Give a Mom a Muffin Template
I found this idea on Pinterest but couldn't find the template for it anywhere. So, I made it myself. I did this with my 5th graders and they had a lot of fun. I have a really fun font on my copy, but it doesn't transfer over; so feel free to change to font to something more exciting.
The students illustrate the book and on the last page you glue a picutre of the student pretending to eat a muffin (this was the best part, we had fun taking the pictures).
If the spacing in the pages go off,
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PreK - 12th
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Dialogue Writing to Explore Theme, Conflict, Plot, Characterization
Readers as Flies on the Wall?...What profound conversations would Hamlet have with Romeo? Or Steinbeck's George Milton with Walter from A Raisin in the Sun? What would the most pathetic character in literary history have to say to the most despicable or the most admirable if they could both leap off the pages of their respective novels or short stories to meet in a world of your student's making. The possibilites for profound and perceptive conversation are limitless and your students have an op
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6th - 12th
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The Fanciest Lady (change the y to an i)
This short story is a decodable text featuring words that end in y where suffixes have been attached so students can see examples of the rules for changing the y to an i when y follows a consonant and the suffix begins with a vowel (excluding -ing). It also is geared toward older learners and uses higher level vocabulary.
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Harrison Bergeron with Common Core Text Dependent Analysis
This is perfect tool for your students' first read of Kurt Vonnegut's acclaimed short story "Harrison Bergeron." Common Core aligned, text-dependent questions are embedded throughout the text to ensure both comprehension and critical analysis of the text. Questions are presented in a variety of ways, including multiple choice, short response, and chart mechanism.
Grades:
8th - 12th
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A Rose for Emily
A packet to accompany the short story, "A Rose for Emily". Includes a pre-writing activity, vocabulary, comprehension questions, summarizing, and themes
Grades:
7th - 12th
"Lamb to the Slaughter" Court Case Project
In this complete project lesson plan, students support arguments for the outcome of a court case involving Mrs. Mary Maloney, main character of Roald Dahl's short story"Lamb to the Slaughter". This resource includes specific directions, graphic organizers, writing guides and sample starter sentences as well as useful transition words.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Showing vs. Telling Writing Exercise
This creative writing exercise can be used in a variety of ways. It was created to allow students to practice creating characters in prose writing by showing and not directly stating what each is like. Once they practice using this worksheet, they can apply the new skill to their own original writing. It can also be used to help students differentiate between direct and indirect characterization. The majority of the Telling column is direct characterization, while the answers created for the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Inference Work for Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day"
Provides an "It Says, I Say, And So" inference chart (concept from Kylie Beers, When Kids Can't Read) for Ray Bradbury's short story, "All Summer in a Day." This chart is only for the beginning of the story and for use with students who read at least at an eighth grade level. I will be offering other materials for struggling high school students working with this story.
Grades:
8th - 12th
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