Short Story Unit Bundle

This dynamic short story unit bundle includes activities that are both engaging and rigorous for students and easy for teachers. It includes so many print-and-go items.

Students will read and complete activities around the following texts: The Lottery, The Necklace, The Most Dangerous Game, The Cask of Amontillado

Engaging activities include a fake Buzzfeed quiz to get students to anticipate a text, activators and summarizers for lessons, several activities that include manipulatives for kinesthetic learners to show their learning, and stations to review for the final test.

In addition, this unit provides skill-learning activities. Activities are provided to help students master identifying foreshadowing, POV, irony, and mood through connotation. A literary analysis paragraph is also included with a thesis sentence starter.

Finally, this unit is prepped for collecting data. Assessments are skills-based. Students will read passages they have never read before and apply the skills they have been learning in this unit. This unit includes two skill quizzes (formative) in addition to a final skills-based test (summative). These formative skills quizzes are taken after reading certain texts and practicing certain skills. Teachers can collect data on certain skills like identifying mood or irony. Then, they might do several activities practicing that skill, and then give another skills quiz to test whether students are learning via these methods. Plus, the second skills quiz can also give teachers data about what they need to review before taking the final summative test.

This unit truly has all that a teacher needs to teach a powerful and engaging short story unit.

The following resources from my store are included in this bundle:

Short Story Literary Elements and Crossword

Most Dangerous Game 4 Day Unit Plan

Most Dangerous Game Questions

"The Necklace" Questions

"The Lottery" Questions

Most Dangerous Game Plot Practice with Manipulatives

Most Dangerous Game: Buzzfeed Quiz: How Much of a Survivor Are You?

Point of View Practice with Manipulatives

Short Stories Common Core Assessment

Cask of Amontillado Plot Practice with Manipulatives

Cask of Amontillado Mini-Unit

Cask of Amontillado Questions Only

Irony Types: Notes, Graphic Organizer, and Practice

Irony Practice

Mood Instruction, Practice, and Application

Foreshadowing Instruction and Practice

Short Story Stations: Review

Check out these other bundles from my store:

Practicing Argument Bundle

Romeo and Juliet Bundle

Citing Evidence with Paintings Growing Bundle

Root Words Growing Bundle

Lord of the Flies Unit Bundle

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