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High school short stories resources for Easel $10 and up
Short Story Units - Short Stories with Comprehension Questions Activities
Short Story Units - Interactive Reading Notebooks - Literary Element Analysis Activities! This 180 page Short Story Interactive Notebook for Reading helps teach Common Core aligned literary elements. These interactive reading foldable activities become an "anchor" for standards taught, and students make a great reference for students to refer back to throughout the year. These activities for teaching literature include creative and Common Core aligned foldables, notes, and Interactive Noteboo
Grades:
5th - 9th
Detective Stories Unit - Short Stories by Doyle, Poe, Dahl; Sherlock Holmes film
In this fantastic detective stories unit, you will explore the characteristics of the detective story genre and apply them to great short stories by Edgar Allan Poe (The Murders in the Rue Morgue), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band and The Adventure of Silver Blaze), and Roald Dahl (Lamb to the Slaughter).Learn what makes a good detective story and then work like a sleuth to identify genre elements in E. A. Poe's and Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories. Analy
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Bundle: Detective Stories Unit + Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit
Dark Romanticism & American Gothic Unit; Poe, Hawthorne, Dickinson, The Village
In this sublime unit, your students will explore American Romanticism and Gothic in works of fiction, poetry, art, and film. Your students will first learn about conditions that influenced American Romanticism and Gothic and study concepts and elements that characterize Romantic and Gothic literature and art. They will then apply these concepts to short stories (The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and The Pendulum, Rappaccini’s Daughter), poems (The Raven, A Bird Came Down The
Grades:
8th - 12th
AP Literature: Unit One: Short Fiction
*NEW: Summer Work Assignment and Letter to Students** Distance Learning suggestions/options*** AP Literature Annotation Guide**** New updated EASEL activities. This short story unit is designed for AP Literature classes; however, since the skills and enduring understandings embedded in these activities are universal and foundational high school English skills, with scaffolding, this unit is appropriate for all grade levels, 9-12, especially honors or advanced level courses. You will just need to
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in:Â AP Literature Bundle: Units 1-3 & More
NEW Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit (Allende, Esquivel, Márquez)
In this fantastic Latin Folktales and Magical Realism unit, you will study characteristics of Latin folktales, analyze Latin cautionary folktales (El Silbón, El Sombrerón, La Llorona, La Siguanaba) and Latin animal folktales (Boitatá, El Cóndor y El Colibri, El Zorro, Jukumari), then explore genre elements of Magical Realism, and identify elements of Latin folktales and Magical Realism in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, short story), Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Es
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in:Â Bundle: Norse Mythology Unit + Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit
Summer Reading Passage Daily Reading Comprehension Writing ELL Context Clues
"One Night at Camp" is a fictional short story that follows four pre-teens as they have an adventure one stormy night at summer camp. After sneaking out one night, just as a severe rain storm rolls in, the kids discover a cabin in the woods and decide to seek shelter there only to discover they aren't alone like they thought... A hunter surprises them but when they come to their senses he appears to have vanished. Once back at camp, the kids explain what they experienced to the camp leader only
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in:Â Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
High School Fiction for Comprehension, Suspense, Foreshadowing, & Imagery
Looking for a suspenseful story to share during a stormy fall day? Something to help your students understand imagery, foreshadowing, and suspense? Something to improve reading comprehension? Then read Storm on the Mountain, a story about an author who inherits a secluded cottage in the mountains and the friend who saves her life! Storm on the Mountain an engaging fiction story with great plot breaks that allow for making inferences or predicting what will happen next. The 46 page resource
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Grades:
8th - 9th
Also included in:Â Four Suspenseful Tales of Fiction Reading Comprehension Bundle
An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
In this story about a plantation owner who is set up, captured, and hanged by the Union army during the Civil War, the author explores what might pass through the mind of a man standing on the edge of death. He uses descriptive language to take allow the reader to see through the eyes of the convicted man moments before he is hanged for treason.DIFFERENTIATION:Guided Reading with questions and framesVocabulary definition, graphics, shades of meaning, words groupsGroup discussion promptsWritten r
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Grades:
10th - 11th
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