Description
Working on a short story unit? Look no further for resources. This is THE VAULT of the Most Popular Short Stories taught in secondary ELA.
Included in this bundle:
- The Hitchhiker – Lucille Fletcher
- We Ate the Children Last – Yann Martel
- The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas – Ursula K. Le Guin
- Eleven – Sandra Cisneros
- Currents – Hannah Bottomy Voskuil
- The Outsider – H.P. Lovecraft
- My Name – Sandra Cisneros
- There Will Come Soft Rains – Ray Bradbury
- The Pedestrian – Ray Bradbury
- The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Pie – Gary Soto
- Girl – Jamaica Kincaid
- 2BR02B – Kurt Vonnegut
- Raymond’s Run – Toni Cade Bambara
- The Minority Report – Philip K. Dick
- Names/Nombres – Julia Alvarez
- Fish Cheeks – Amy Tan
- The Black Cat – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Treasure of Lemon Brown – Walter Dean Myers
- The Landlady – Roald Dahl
- The Body Snatcher – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Machine Stops – E.M. Forster
- Guilty or Not Guilty Activity (The Tell-Tale Heart) – Edgar Allan Poe
- Désirée’s Baby – Kate Chopin
- The Veldt – Ray Bradbury
- The Lesson – Toni Cade Bambara
- The Gift of the Magi – O. Henry
- The Scholarship Jacket – Marta Salinas
- Harrison Bergeron – Kurt Vonnegut
- The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Battle Royal – Ralph Ellison
- The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
- Sol Painting, Inc. – Meg Medina
- The Story of an Hour – Kate Chopin
- The Necklace – Guy de Maupassant
- Everyday Use – Alice Walker
- The Masque of the Red Death – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Flowers – Alice Walker
- Luella Miller – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- The Hand – Guy de Maupassant
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
- The Most Dangerous Game – Richard Connell
- Thank You, Ma’am – Langston Hughes
- Snow – Julia Alvarez
- The Monkey’s Paw – W.W. Jacobs
- Seventh Grade – Gary Soto
- The Third Wish – Joan Aiken
- All Summer in a Day – Ray Bradbury
- Geraldine Moore the Poet – Toni Cade Bambara
- The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe
- Lamb to the Slaughter – Roald Dahl
- A Sound of Thunder – Ray Bradbury
- Frost and Fire – Ray Bradbury
- ‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman – Harlan Ellison
- The Open Window – Saki
- Sweat – Zora Neale Hurston
All products include reading comprehension questions and answer keys! Also included: activating strategies, anticipation guides, summarizing activities, discussion questions, academic vocabulary, and project ideas.
All products focus on standards for ELA and literary elements such as: irony, point of view, allegory, theme, suspense, mood, plot, setting, foreshadowing, dialogue, text structure, and more.