- SHORT STORIES
Plot
“After Twenty Years” O’Henry
“Gift of the Magi” O’Henry
“Rikki-tikki-tavi” Rudyard Kipling
Characterization
“Two Kinds” Amy Tam
Setting and Point of View
“Third Level” Jack Finney
“Rip Van Winkle” Washington Irving
“Californians Tale” Mark Twain
“Prince and the Pauper” Mark Twain
“All Summer in a Day” Ray Bradbury
Theme
“Ribbons” Lawrence Yep
“Lemon Brown” Walter Dean Myers
Conflict
“A Day’s Wait” Ernest Hemingway
Literary Devices
- surprise ending
- hyperbole
- irony
- onomatopoeia
- dialogue
- character’s motives
- tone
- symbols
- suspense
Literary Terms
- legend
- internal conflict
- sensory language
- literal meaning
- cliché
- bias
- essay
- Legends
“King Arthur”
- Drama
“A Christmas Carol” Charles Dickens
“The Dying Detective” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” Rod Serling
--Staging
--Dialogue
- Novels
“Call of the Wild” Jack London
“Wrinkle in Time” Madeleine L’Engle
“The Hobbit” J.R. Tolkien
“Summer of My German Soldier” Bette Greene
“Walk Two Moons” Sharon Creech
- Poetry
Poetic Devices
- rhyme
- rhythm
- symbol
- repetition
- suspense
- hyperbole
- figurative language
- free verse
America Poets
- Carl Sandburg
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- William Carlos Williams
- Greek Myths
- Paragraph writing
- Expository writing
- summary
- biographical sketch
- Personal narrative
- Persuasive writing
- Descriptive writing
- Poetry writing unit
- Figures of speech
- Research paper
- Drama/Speech
- Compare/Contrast
- Review
1. Short Stories
“The Dinner Party” Mona Gardiner
“A Retrieved Reformation” O’Henry
“Up the Slide” Jack London
“Tell Tale Heart” Edgar Allen Poe
“Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allen Poe
“The Monkey’s Paw” W. W. Jacobs
“Christmas Day in the Morning” Pearl Buck
“Drummer Boy of Shiloh” Ray Bradbury
“An Episode of War” Stephen Crane
“Horsemen in the Sky” Ambrose Bierce
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Ambrose Bierce
“Flowers for Algernon” Daniel Keyes
“The Necklace” Guy de Mauppassant
“The Ninny” Chekhov
“The Governess” Neal Simon
“The Adventure of the Speckled Band” Arthur Conan Doyle
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Drama
“The Diary of Anne Frank”
“Sherlock Holmes”
“Midsummer’s Night Dream”
3. Novels
“Across Five Aprils”
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
“A Separate Peace”
4. Non-Fiction
“Travels with Charley” John Steinbeck
Weekly Reading Comprehension lessons/exercises
5. Poetry
Langston Hughes; Robert Frost; Emily Dickenson; Edgar Allen Poe; Carl Sandberg
Elements of a short story
Literary devices used by authors
- Style
- Allusion
- Irony
- Suspense
- Foreshadowing
- Surprise ending
- Inference
- Symbolism
- Flashback
Literary terms
- Genre
- Narrator
- Antagonist
- Protagonist
- Dialogue
- Dialect
