Short Stories

Whether you're looking for a short story to pair with the novel you're teaching, or you need a 2- to 3-day sub plan to use with the stories in your textbooks, Prestwick House Instant Short Story Packs go beyond basic comprehension to help students learn how to analyze literature. Each downloadable…

Classic American Short Stories offers a collection of some of the most influential American authors. The Teaching Unit for Classic American Short Stories gives you a comprehensive academic framework that saves you hours of prep work. You can rely on this well-researched unit as a strong base for…

From Boccaccio to Bradbury; 75 works, many of them "short-short" stories by authors such as Chekhov, Crane, and Bradbury. This large and diverse collection of works is perfect for your classroom. This book is eligible for Prestwick House paperback volume discounts. You'll always save at least 25% on…

…touch on only a few selections as part of a larger anthology, but Discovering Genre allows your students to examine enough full-text poems, short stories, or plays to make sure that they really grasp the nuances of each literary form. Along with detailed explanations of the conventions of each genre…

Great American Short Stories is a collection of 19 classic American short stories. Below are the titles of all 19 short stories included within this compilation: * Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"* Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"* Herman Melville, "Bartleby"* Bret Harte, "The Luck…

This volume contains twenty-three stories by some of the most important writers at work in the middle of the twentieth century. As Sylvia and Douglas Angus write in their introduction: These stories present a fascinating psychological record of what may best be termed The Age of Crisis', the age in…

…literary fiction with Reading Literature. This book contains 8 short stories and 5 poems, all of which are annotated with important information to help students understand the texts. Multiple short-answer questions for each story and poem require students to analyze literary elements like figurative…

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…other included stories are "The Cop and the Anthem," "Springtime a la Carte," "The Green Door," "After Twenty Years," "The Furnished Room," "The Pimienta Pancakes," "The Voice of the City," "While the Auto Waits," "A Retrieved Reformation," "A Municipal Report," "A Newspaper Story," "A Ghost of a…

…activity, selected vocabulary for students to define, a vocabulary quiz, a comprehension quiz, and a fully developed writing activity linking the reading experience to present-day issues. Includes suggested approaches to the stories and an index of social themes. (Grades 9-12) Stories not included.

…Crane, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, O. Henry, and more, this anthology offers 50 short stories by some of the greatest writers in American history. Students should all get the chance to analyze such remarkable works of short fiction. This book is eligible for Prestwick House paperback volume discounts.…

Finally, a ready-to-use method for teaching grammar from the literature you are already teaching! These comprehensive units that teach both grammar and sentence construction directly from literature come on CD or in downloadable form, and include hundreds of ready-to-print reproducibles for…