Short Story Unit Bundle: Activities, Analysis, Lesson Plans for 9 Short Stories

This Short Story Bundle is amazing! It is dynamic, unique, rigorous, engaging, and fun with a variety of activities that get students reading, writing, thinking, and talking. Students will work on reading comprehension and vocabulary and use a variety of higher order skills to complete the activities and tasks such as analyzing, synthezing, evaluating, providing textual evidence, writing, collaborating, discussing, debating, etc. Students will also create, draw, and design for some of the lessons as well as play games, do hands-on tasks, and move around the room for other lessons. This bundle will make planning a breeze for you, and it provides an awesome learning experience for your students.

All of these short story lessons have a test or quiz included with an answer key.

Click on each unit included in the bundle to see specifics of each lesson.

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Complete Lessons Included for These Short Stories:

“My Shirt is for Church” by Daniel Inouye

“Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell

“Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

“Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

“Federigo’s Falcon” - Giovanni Boccaccio

“To Build a Fire” - Jack London

“Thank You, M’am” - Langston Hughes

“Raymond’s Run” - Toni Cade Bombara

Literary Terms Covered:

Figurative Language (simile, metaphor, personification, allusion, hyperbole)

Characterization

Direct and Indirect Character

Static and Dynamic Character

Round and Flat Character

Conflict

Protagonist & Antagonist

Symbolism

Inferencing

Allusion

Dialogue

Theme

Suspense

Foreshadowing

Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic Irony

Reliable and Unreliable Narrator

Point of View

Context Clues

Plot Structure (Exposition, Narrative Hook, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution)