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Short stories Common Core RL.9-10.5 literature circles
Short Story Unit Bundle for Distance Learning or Print & Go
Get all my short story resources in this money-saving bundle! All of my resources can be used for distance learning and in-person print and go. This bundle includes resources for both reading and writing short stories. You can use some with ANY story but I also included resources for specific stories. It is a growing bundle, so I'll be adding new resources to it soon!See the individual previews for each product.Created and copyrighted by Tracee Orman
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Grades:
7th - 10th
What's Their View? Creative Character Motivation, Perspective, & POV Activity
What's Their View activity is a creative way for students to master character perspectives, motivations, and point of view.What’s Their View is one of my students’ favorite activities, is often requested from every level of student, and is a great piece of student work to display.Key Concepts & Objectives:Reading ComprehensionCharacter MotivationCharacter POV and Perspective based on setting and conflictStudent conclusion based on textResources IncludeLesson Guides and Suggested SequenceGuid
Grades:
6th - 12th
The Fall of the House of Usher Short Story Stations Lesson Unit
You get 12 literacy stations based on Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". The stations include engaging lessons about characterization, plot, theme, textual analysis, graphic organizers, constructed response writing prompts, A coloring page, conventions of the gothic horror story, conflict, and a tiny Socratic Seminar.Learning stations are the perfect way to review the ideas and structure of the short story. With a little preparation and careful instructions, students can rotate through seve
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: The Fall of the House of Usher Short Story Bundle of Lessons
The Scarlet Ibis Student Graphic Organizer Story Mapping and Key
This resource was created to be used with the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. The Story Map provides the students with visual to help student with enhanced comprehension that target the Common core State Standards for Literature. The student Story Map is ready to duplicate for classroom use and teacher key for the test is included. Other resources are also available for “The Scarlet Ibis” on my site including a Multiple Choice test (three choices) and a Modified Multiple Choic
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Grades:
9th - 12th
The Best Revenge by R.L. Stine Short Story Unit Digital and Print
This is a comprehensive short story unit covering the short story The Best Revenge by R.L. Stine. This is a spooky story from the book "Scream and Scream Again" presented by R.L. Stine. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Common Core Standards. Skills covered include mapping the plot, mood, support with textual evidence, character inferencing, context clue vocabulary, comprehension, short response questions, theme, internal and external conflict, and point of view.This
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Scream and Scream Again! Short Stories Unit Bundle Digital and Print
Critical Thinking *SHORT STORY* Discussion Prompts (Socratic Smackdown)
This document has over 100 prompts for short stories! These could be classroom discussions, essay topics, test questions, etc. The prompts pair well with the Socratic Smackdown discussion format (also available in my store); however, these can also fit with any discussion format. The prompts include:-general short story questions that can work with any story-thematic short story questions that can work with any story-prompts for The Tell Tale Heart-prompts for The Lottery-prompts for The Most Da
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: **BUNDLE** Critical Thinking Discussion Prompts (Socratic Smackdown)
High School Short Story Reading Comprehension Unit
This fiction resource challenges older students to interpret fiction texts. After reading the passages, they will answer a variety of comprehension questions. This helps students develop and improve critical thinking skills. The three fiction short stories incorporate elements of suspense. Students have to use problem solving skills to interpret the plot. Due to the descriptive language and mood of the stories, students may interpret them differently allowing for fun class discussion. This resou
Grades:
8th - 10th
Bradbury and Technology Unit Plan
A loose lesson using Ray Bradbury's F451, There Will Come Soft Rains, and The Veldt.
Grades:
8th - 10th
Bret Harte ~ "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" COMMON CORE MASTER PACKET (14 pages)
This 14 packet over the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" contains:
• Pre-read Anticipatory Worksheet
• Vocabulary
• Literary Focus: Character and Setting
• Vocabulary Review
• Quizzes
• Writing Connections
• LIT CIRCLE Discussion Questions
• Cross Curricular Writing and Alternative Activities
All of this will hit many of the State Standards for the Common Core as well as help your students improve in many literacy skills (reading, writing, listening, and oracy)
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving - Discussion PPT Slides (1920x1080px)
Rip Van Winkle (short story) by Washington IrvingPowerPoint slide deck (1920x1080px, which is the standard 16:9 format)Description:Rip Van Winkle is a seemingly simple short story that has many underlying themes for discussion. Author Washington Irving provides vivid descriptions of the picturesque landscape, an exciting and widely interpreted plot, and a relatable character with whom the reader navigates the impact of a community's life-changing progress. Able to read in one sitting, Rip Van Wi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Urban Tribes - Native Americans in the City Lessons - Inclusive Learning
Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning for High School StudentsThis learning resource uses the reading strategies: connection, question, infer and transformation, to allow for powerful understanding. Students will gain a better understanding of the unique issues facing Indigenous millennials in North America.Lessons included will ask:Students to make connections, between the text and personal experiences, other texts and media, or world events/issuesStudents to document and class
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Fisherman and the Jinnee - Arabian Folktale
"The Fisherman and the Jinnee," an excerpt from One Thousand and One nigths, presents a moral story that is very much relevant today: do unto others as you would have other do unto you. In classic Arabian Folktale tradition, this lesson is taught through the use of frame stories, a supernatural genie in a bottle, and a few angry kings!The overall goal of this mini-unit is to teach students how to decipher the message of a story within a story construction while embedding the universal theme of t
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Grades:
8th - 12th
The Most Dangerous Game Reading Guide and Key
This resource was created to be used with the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. 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 availabl
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Literary Elements of Fiction-Anchor Chart, Reference Sheet, Visual
Middle School and High School Teachers: introducing the ultimate refresher and anchor for mastering the Literary Elements of Fiction for your Literary Analysis! Whether its back to school or English class or the start of your Text study- say goodbye to overwhelming study materials and hello to a simple guide that caters to all types of learners. Whether your students are visual learners, have learning disabilities or difficulties, or New English Language Learner (ESL or ELL), this guide supports
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell Activities and Comp Questions 8th 9th
Are you looking for a no prep, close reading, activities and comprehension questions for the short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell for your 7th, 8th, & 9th grade students? This complete short story unit will help you teach foreshadowing & inference in an engaging way.Designed as a 5-day lesson plan, this resource covers covers pre-reading activities, close reading guided instruction, comprehension questions, and writing tasks.✨My Product Includes✨Teacher Lesson Plan Guid
Grades:
8th - 10th
Also included in: Spooky Halloween Close Reading Activities Literary Short Stories
Harlem by Langston Hughes - Discussion PPT Slides (1920x1080px)
Harlem (poem) by Langston HughesPowerPoint slide deck (1920x1080px, which is the standard 16:9 format)Description:What happens to a dream deferred? "Harlem" by Langston Hughes is only eleven lines long, yet it is rich and substantial in depth and meaning. Using vivid, concrete language and relatable imagery, Langston Hughes asks a question that resonates with everyone today, as it tackles a universal theme, but also represents the hardships of his African-American people. The deeper you read int
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Necklace Story Map Graphic Organizer and Key
This resource was created to be used with the short story, “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. The Story Map provides the students with a visual to enhance comprehension that targets the Common core State Standards for Literature. The student Story Map is ready to duplicate for classroom use and teacher key for the test is included. Other resources are also available for “The Necklace” on my site including a Multiple Choice test (three choices) and a Modified Multiple Choice Test (two choices
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Grades:
9th - 12th
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe - Discussion PPT Slides (1920x1080px)
The Purloined Letter (short story) by Edgar Allan PoePowerPoint slide deck (1920x1080px, which is the standard 16:9 format)Description:In The Purloined Letter, Poe did an artful job weaving real-life situations into a detective story, tackling themes we all experience such as simplifying vs. complicating/being "too" thorough, recognizing when it's right to trust your intuition, expanding your perspectives to understand other people, and knowing how to adjust a framework to an individual or situa
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
"WINTER DREAMS" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THREE WEEK, 29-PAGE UNITF. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S “WINTER DREAMS” (short story unit) What you get:Classic Fitzgerald vocabulary activity, test, and keyHigh level multiple-choice test and keyEssay test prompt and answer sheetsGrading rubricOther class activities to enjoy the unit What you need to do:Print story by googling "Winter Dreams PDF"Copy unit originals and distribute materials as desired
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: BUNDLE OF EIGHT: THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
The Lady or the Tiger Student Story Mapping Graphic Organizer and Key
This resource was created to be used with the short story, “The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton. The Story Map provides the students with visual to help student with enhanced comprehension that target the Common core State Standards for Literature. The student Story Map is ready to duplicate for classroom use and teacher key for the test is included. Other resources are also available for “The Lady or the Tiger” on my site including a Multiple Choice test (three choices) and a Modified Mu
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Grades:
9th - 12th
The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Discussion PPT Slides (1920x1080px)
The Birthmark (short story) by Nathaniel HawthornePowerPoint slide deck (1920x1080px, which is the standard 16:9 format)Description:The Birthmark is a short story about contentment vs. perfection, obsession vs. letting things go, and our own personal thresholds for success. Able to be read in one sitting, this story pits science against philosophy in a vivid representation of the human condition.Use these slides to lead discussions around plot, characters, and themes of humanity, trust, worth, a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
"A Worn Path" by Welty Group Work / Think-Support-Share /+ Post-Reading Slides
Note that this listing is for the Google Folder which includes Docs and Slides. If you'd rather use the Word Doc for the group activity, see this listing instead. Note that that listing does not include the Slides.This listing includes two items: the group activity and the story review slides.1) Group activity for Eudora Welty's short story "A Worn Path" The activity breaks students into five groups, one group per topic. (Of course, you can enlarge the number of groups by assigning the same to
Grades:
9th - 12th
The Scarlet Ibis Student Reading Guide and Key
This resource was created to be used with the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. 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 for “The
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th
Raw Head and Bloody Bones Short Story Unit by Bruce Hale Digital and Print
This is a comprehensive short story unit covering the short story Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Bruce Hale. This is a spooky story from the book "Scream and Scream Again" presented by R.L. Stine. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Common Core Standards. Skills covered include mapping the plot, tone, author’s purpose, support with textual evidence, character inferencing, context clue, comprehension, response questions, foreshadowing, theme, conflict and point of view.Thi
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Scream and Scream Again! Short Stories Unit Bundle Digital and Print
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