Short Story Project

Hello! After we finish The Things They Carried, we will be doing a short story unit. Everyone will choose a short story to research and present to the class.

•Find a short story you like, which you will present to the class
•You will assign it to the class to read as homework, so make sure it’s actually short.
•You will give background information about your author and the story’s historical context

•You will come up with discussion and analysis questions (you may include a short writing prompt if you like) and facilitate a short in class discussion about your story

Here are some ideas for short story authors to explore. You must all choose a different author!! No overlap! BRANCH OUT! Choose something contemporary! 

-Grace Paley
-Miranda July
-David Sedaris (this is technically nonfiction, but I'll allow it)
-Jorge Luis Borges
-Nadine Gordinmer
-Alice Munro
-Joyce Carol Oates
-John Cheever
-Raymond Carver
-Rick Bass
-Anna Noyes 
-Maile Meloy
-Dave Eggers
-Nicole Krauss
-Kazuo Ishiguro
-George Saunders
-Junot Diaz
-Nadine Gordimer
-Chekhov
-Twain
-Jeffrey Eugenides

Comments

  1. Sascha NewmanApril 28, 2017 at 9:03 AM

    Sascha Newman

    "Chef's House" by Raymond Carver

    http://losarciniegas.blogspot.com/2011/07/raymond-carver-chefs-house.html

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  2. UnknownApril 29, 2017 at 4:07 PM

    https://americanliterature.com/author/leonid-andreyev/short-story/on-the-day-of-the-crucifixion

    "On The Day of the Crucifixion" by Leonid Andreyev

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  3. UnknownApril 30, 2017 at 7:02 PM

    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf

    "The Yellow Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson

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  4. UnknownMay 6, 2017 at 8:45 AM

    http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/price/frog.htm

    "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Twain

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  5. UnknownMay 20, 2017 at 9:58 AM

    http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

    "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

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  6. sahmsrMay 21, 2017 at 9:09 AM

    https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/MarquezManwithWings.htm

    "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  7. UnknownMay 21, 2017 at 9:19 AM

    "the lottery" by Shirley Jackson

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  8. UnknownMay 21, 2017 at 9:20 AM

    https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtYXJpYW1zbGl0ZXJhdHVyZTF8Z3g6NGM5NGI2ZGQ5MjVkZDc0

    "Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov

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  9. UnknownMay 21, 2017 at 9:39 AM

    i will be making my presentation on "the black cat" by Edgar allen poe

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  10. UnknownMay 22, 2017 at 6:43 PM

    http://www.english-literature.uni-bayreuth.de/en/teaching/documents/courses/Stockton1.pdf

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