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High school short stories teacher manuals under $5
The Cask of Amontillado - TEACHER COPY with ANNOTATIONS and Vocab
THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO TEACH THE STORY. These notes have EVERYTHING!This is the full text (on 7 pages with wide margins for annotations) of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado". It includes vocabulary words (highlighted in pink and defined in the margins), GISTs of each paragraph/section, example of foreshadowing, pronunciations of difficult words, examples of literary devices, and other miscellaneous annotations. It also includes 10 higher order thinking Questions for studen
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7th - 11th
"Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" Short Story Analysis - Lesson Plan Bundle
This file includes the tried and tested lesson plan, handouts, and extras for use in teaching "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" by Jack Finney. Using both Common Core 9-10 and Tennessee State English I Standards, this plan will help teach and assess characterization with emphasis on inference.
Specific Standards Addressed as Focus:
Common Core ELA 9-10
• 9.RL.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with
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9th - 10th, Adult Education
Flashback and Foreshadowing- "The Pedestrian: Part 2" (a continuation story)
Great for PARCC Narrative Writing Task! "The Pedestrian" is a fantastic dystopian story by Ray Bradbury. I wrote a short sequel story to it to help my students work on flashback, foreshadowing, and character change. It focuses on what happens to Leonard when he gets to the Psychiatric Center of Regressive Tendencies. Enjoy!© Copyright 2018 M. Mariano. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy pages specifically designed for student or teacher use by the original purchaser or licensee. T
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jeannette
Hemingway & The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
This is a teacher made packet for Hemingway's classic short story. The story has been divided into three parts with an accompanying study guide for each part. There is separate vocab work and also a reading quiz over the beginning and a cumulative reading quiz.
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9th - 12th
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Letters to Future Students: Insights and Advice from Your Predecessors
Overview: "Letters to Future Students" is a heartfelt collection of letters written by current students to their future peers. This book aims to bridge the gap between different school years by sharing personal experiences, valuable advice, and encouraging words. It's designed to make the transition to a new school year smoother and more exciting for incoming students.Introduction: The book opens with an introduction from the teacher, explaining the purpose and significance of the project. This
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1st - 9th
"Kitty and Mack" by W. D. Myers Lesson Plan Bundle (plans, handouts, key, PPTs)
This series of lesson plans has been created to teach story elements through use of "Kitty and Mack: A Love Story" by Walter Dean Myers. This text is a high-interest YA short story in which two teens suffer life-shattering events when on the way home from the train station after a college visit. As a whole, this plan is designed to take three 100-minute blocks and includes a series of standards from Common Core ELA 9-10 implementation and a correlation to Tennessee State English I SPIs.
The
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7th - 10th
Spanish Short Story: Me gusta tu ropa- Clothing obsession/personality Level 2
Looking for a fun way to review clothing, personality traits, school vocabulary, and present tense structures? Me gusta tu ropa is the perfect option! This short and thrilling new story features a bevy of present tense verbs such as gusta, tiene, son, es, prefiere, puede, quiere, dice, embedded in a context of cognates and/or common vocabulary to facilitate comprehension.SynopsisEveryone thinks that Clara is Rebeca, and this is by design! Clara is obsessed with Rebeca's clothing, her hairstyle..
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6th - 12th
Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" Character and Conflict Chart (Answer Keys)
Are you looking for a way to teach characterization and conflict? This story is a great text to use! Students can create a character chart to display various characteristics as well as evidence from the text to prove their responses. They can create a conflict chart to track all of the conflicts in the story; this chart also makes students identify the type of conflict and the specific type.
This document contains the teacher's answer keys for the conflict chart and character chart created
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8th - 10th
The Cask of Amontillado Story Mapping Teacher Guide
The Cask of Amontillado story mapping teacher guide is needed to guide students through the story mapping process. This can also be used as a performance assessment.
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6th - 12th
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown" Plot Element Story Notes
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers is a great story for students to practice analyzing story development and how each event impacts other events and other literary elements such as setting, mood, and theme. This short PDF presentation can be used to display notes to students based on this story. It covers the plot diagramming of this story, conflict, theme, setting, and mood. The notes also help the teacher convey how each element interacts with other elements in this particul
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5th - 9th
Also included in: "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" Plot Elements, Graphic Organizer, and Quiz
Steinbeck ~ "Flight" MASTER PACKET with KEY (18 pages)
This MASTER PACKET for John Steinbeck's classic short story contains all of the following:
• Teacher Notes
• Presentation
• Quiz and KEY
• Test and KEY
• Discussion and Study Questions with KEY
• Lit Circle Prompts
• Essay Prompts
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8th - 11th
"El mensaje" Book trailer Pre-reading activity & Comprehension Questions
Slide presentation/book trailer of the novel "El mensaje." This resource can be used as a pre-reading activity to build interest in the book. This resource includes: 1. Introductory/ story like introduction to the book. Each slide of the presentation featured text and engaging pictures. The first slide features a synopis of the book in Spanish. 2. PIcture talk "type" activity. Students view the picture of the book cover and answer questions. 3. Comprehension questions interspersed with persona
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6th - 9th
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MORE Rich Short Stories for Middle School Students
Another set of suggestions for short story units that will provide you many opportunities to teach literary devices, reading comprehension, annotation skills, and the context and setting of these quite varied pieces. A slightly longer list of "more mature readers" selections, and a wide range of topics, styles, and subgenres.
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Workflow and Summary of Creative AI GPT Prompts for Short Story Writing
This page is a summary of the Prompts I use in the AI GPT Creative Prompts Lessons 1-4 [see bundle]The student is using ChatGPT to be a draft generator and story idea prompter. The student is using the prompts in this package so that the story generation is working off the prompts that the GPT asks students for. Therefore, it is the students' imagination that drives the story at each stage of the story's plot points.For the first draft, the student asks GPT to prompt them for each stage of a s
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Creative Short Story Prompting with AI GPT: Bundle
The Flowers - Teaching Guideline
Provided is a great resource to use before/while teaching The Flowers short story. The guideline consists of key elements to emphasize and discuss. This also works for a great lead into The Flowers - Assessment.
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Flowers Short Story Unit
Flannery O'Connor ~ "The Crop" MASTER PACKET with KEYS included
This is my 13-page packet over Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Crop." The packet includes a reading check, study and discussion questions as well as introduction to the selection and interpretation to the humorous story. All of this comes with keys to make the unit easier for the teacher.
Grades:
10th - 12th
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