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Higher education short stories resources for Microsoft Word
Short Story Unit Plan - Presentations, Assignments, and Activities for 4 Stories
Short Story Unit Plan - Presentations, Assignments, and Activities for 4 Stories: This comprehensive middle school and high school short story unit will captivate your students with four highly engaging stories, all with surprising endings. The resource includes eye-catching PowerPoint presentations to introduce short story terms and to guide the lesson for each of the short stories, dynamic discussions, enriching videos, and creative assessments and activities to engage and challenge your stude
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Diagnosing the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
An activity that lets your students become psychiatrists for the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A list of illnesses and their symptoms are matched to page numbers and passages. This activity is useful for finding and analyzing evidence (important to Common Core) and drawing inferences.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin-CSI Activity
This is one of my favorite lessons. After reading the short story, "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, the students are always perplexed by the ending. What just happened? How did she die? These questions quickly float around the classroom. Place students in groups and tell them that today's class will be an interpretation contest-CSI style. The winner must prove that Mrs. Mallard died due to psychological trauma, physical causes, or a little of both. Evidence will be gathered from the
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Intro to Literary Criticism Stations Activity
Students get up and move around, working with a partner to choose a text from a set then learning about literary criticism and applying certain theories to their text. This activity introduces students to the idea of literary criticism and lets the teacher choose short texts (or use the ones included) which makes this activity fit into any unit.
Help students consider new perspectives while reading and begin thinking critically about each text they are exposed to!
What Is Included:
- All Mat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier Multiple Choice & Figurative Language Quiz & KEY
This 4 page, scantron-ready, 50 question quiz on Eugenia W. Collier's short story "Marigolds" has 2 parts. Part 1 has 30 questions on plot, character, comprehension and interpretation. Part 2 on Figurative Language has 2 sections. In Part 2A the students must match 10 terms (classical allusion, onomatopoeia, flashback, contrast, irony, parallel structure, oxymoron, symbolism, metaphor, simile) to their definitions, and in Part 2B the students have to match the same 10 terms to short quoted pa
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick creative writing example (Just Dessert)
Chris Van Allsburg’s book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is an excellent medium to teach creative writing. The titled illustrations are accompanied with only the slightest bit of text. A mere suggestion as to what already has happened and might happen. Every turn of the page introduces a unique vignette, an intriguing picture that arouses curiosity that tugs at the imagination, thus sparking new ideas to fill in the blanks. The entire book is a collection of writing prompts! The tantalizing st
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Paper Menagerie Short Story Packet
This packet covers Ken Liu's Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy award-winning short story, "The Paper Menagerie", a tale of the struggle for identity within a biracial teenager and the deep rift between his Chinese mother as a result. Steeped in magical realism and zhezi papercraft, the packet contains:*An About the Author section*A Hometown Spotlight on Lanzhou, China*Pre-Reading Questions*Survey-Style Anticipation Guide*Vocabulary Matching Activity*Post-Reading Questions*Thematic Analysis with Au
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway | 20-Page Editable Lesson Plan!
Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 20-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants." Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handout, reading quiz, and discussion questions will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights!! Hold your students account
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" quiz
This is an open-book selected-response quiz, designed to assess higher-level thinking skills of the students after they have read the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. The quiz would be used in an English/Language Arts (American literature) class, and it calls on the students to determine irony, character motivation, symbolism, foreshadowing, and theme. It includes an answer key.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"A Good Man is Hard to Find" Syntax Practice
This 9 passage handout asks students to address the following Common Core Standard: L.11-12.3a Vary syntax for effect, consulting references (e.g., Tufte’s Artful Sentences) for guidance as needed; apply an understanding of syntax to the study of complex texts when reading.The questions that accompany the handout ask students to analyze the author's deliberate use of punctuation and sentence length to create an effect. Answer key is included, and more resources are available upon request. Please
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Fall of the House of Usher Test 45 Multiple Ch. Answer Key
This is a multiple choice test that can be used after a discussion of the story or for close reading practice.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Minister's Black Veil Assessment - common core aligned quiz/test
10 multiple choice questions with common core aligned question stems. Each question is aligned to a skill so that you can easily align it to standards. Questions deal with inference, characterization, cause/effect, plot, theme. 1 essay question regarding the symbolism of the veil. Just as most standardized tests, these higher level thinking questions often have 2 answers that are close, but 1 correct answer. Encourage students to select best answers. If you find this too challenging for your gro
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Eight Creative Writing Lessons
This writing lesson plan is an excellent resource for teachers and students alike. It covers various writing styles and techniques with carefully crafted lessons, including fantasy, realistic fiction, poetry, and short stories.Each lesson is designed to help students hone their writing skills and take their craft to the next level. The provided examples help students better understand the concepts and how to apply them to their writing.The lesson plan includes eight lessons, each covering a uniq
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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THE BLACK CAT! BY POE {FUN, CCSS ALIGNED, TESTS ETC, 46 PP}
This includes the famous story briefly re-told and also the full version;
Poe's Life Story;
Handy Tests;
10 Word Searches;
Letters Cryptograms;
The Full Original Story;
“Annabel Lee—handy for comparison-contrast writing;
“The Raven”—handy for comparison-contrast writing;
"Why Is Edgar Allan Poe So Great"--which tells why this particular author and story are worth studying;
Common Core State Standards: ELAS.R:IT.1-10 re support; central idea; introduction of key persons, events, ideas; meanin
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Anticipation Guide-The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Short story anticipation guide ready to go for Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour. Questions are all higher level and directly related to the text to get students thinking about the key elements of the story as it would relate to their personal opinions before they read. They can then return to the guide and see if any of their opinions changed after reading. Product file is in MS Word so it can be edited to meet your needs or reworked for another story.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
One of These Days - Close Reading & Writing Prompt
One of These Days, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is the true image of a short story. Less than three pages and under 1000 words, yet packed with so much action. As such, it can be devoured in a single class period by any middle school or high school class. I started making this resource with my 8th grade class in mind. For that reason, the marginal questions appear to be more surface level with the focus on imagery and characterization. However, the more I read and annotated myself, the more I real
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Fiction & Stories: Theme Activity Package
Theme in literature refers to the moral or message of a story or piece of literature. it is often seen as the most important part of a story, in that each of the other elements of fiction (characterization, point of view, literary devices, setting & atmosphere, and plot) generally work to convey the theme.This package helps students to differentiate between a theme and a topic, having them read a story and then identify potential themes. The lesson is capped off by getting students to rewri
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
By Any Other Name A Short Quiz
A Short quiz about the short story "By Any Other Name" By Santha Rama Rau, this short multiple choice quiz provides a chance for the teachers to give a quick assessment and check for understanding after reading the text of the story. It is suitable for the students who want to review the story , and it can be used for online assignment and assessment.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Cornell Notes and Quiz Ch 2: Plot & Structure (Perrine) AP Literature
These guided reading notes (in the two-columned Cornell Notes format) feature 19 probing text- and inference-based questions that allow students to navigate the dense but informative Chapter 2 "Plot & Structure" of the Short Story/Fiction section of Perrine's anthology "Structure, Sound and Sense", a text commonly used in AP Literature. The accompanying quiz assesses students' reading and understanding through 10 multiple-choice, fill-in, and true/false questions. Answer Key included!
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Reading Comprehension Passages Questions Short Stories Fluency ESL Practice
Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions English Language Arts Activity Fluency Worksheets Warmup Classroom Literacy SkillsThis 60 page Word document includes 50 Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice and Fill in the Blank questions. This resource is in Word doc format, so you can edit and change anything you see fit. Does not include an answer key.The reading comprehension ranges from stories, paragraphs, texts, and passages to give your students a variety to read about. Topi
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Cornell Notes Ch 3: Characterization (Perrine) AP Literature
These guided reading notes (in the two-columned Cornell Notes format) feature 17 probing text- and inference-based questions that allow students to navigate the dense but informative Chapter 3 "Characterization" of the Short Story/Fiction section of Perrine's anthology "Structure, Sound and Sense", a text commonly used in AP Literature.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”
An eleven-page, text-based, fill-in-the-blank handout in which your students will explore in depth the structure of Faulkner’s brilliant, but somewhat difficult, short story “Barn Burning.” This analysis of structure includes the inciting moment or the major problem of the story, its climax, and its denouement or final resolution where recognition and reversal (or surprise ending) occur. By studying this structural pattern in “Barn Burning,” your students should be able to apply it to other sh
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
"A Rose for Emily" By William Faulkner-- Comprehensive Study Questions & Guide
This is a guide for comprehensive study of the short story, "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner. This assignment is suitable for Honors sections, AP classes and can be used with high school juniors and seniors after reading the short story. The following link is a resource that will help students answer the twelve questions on this assignment. The text of the story is also found on the Cummings Guide website. Cummings Guide: "A Rose for Emily."
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Christmas Brain Teaser Activity
This very fun Christmas activity will tease the brain of your students and keep them thinking right through the holiday vacation. This activity also includes brain teaser questions that reflect bits of the story which tests your students comprehension and keep them sharp and on their toes.
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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