Short Story Unit Plan By: Steve McCauley & Bruce Robinson Subject: English Unit: Short Story Theme: Irony Short Story Unit Contents: Short Story Unit Overview Lesson 1 – Elements of the Short Story Lesson 2 – Cask of Amontillado Lesson 3 – The Lottery Lesson 4 – A & P Lesson 5 – Gentlemen‚ Your Verdict Lesson 6 – Short Story Workshop Lesson 7 – The Big Snit Lesson 8 – The Sniper Lesson 9 – The Fall of a City Lesson 10 – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Lesson 11 – Two Fishermen Lessons
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Modern Short Story Essay Early 20th Century authors often wrote about the strange things and discrepancies found in society and used irony to criticize them. Katherine Mansfield’s “A Cup of Tea” and Virginia Woolf’s “The Duchess and the Jeweller” both use irony to condemn and show inconsistencies in social classes. The short stories demonstrated how being upper class or rich doesn’t necessarily mean you are secure‚ generous or a good person. A main topic found in the two stories is that money
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English Sac – Short Stories Analytical The stories ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde‚ ‘The Gift of Magi’ by O.Henry and ‘The Four Horsemen‘ by Jenny Pausacker all explore the themes of love‚ sacrifice and being non judgemental or judgemental. Throughout this topic‚ love‚ sacrifice and being non judgmental or judgemental of people are qualities that not all people value. But there are still many people who value and support it. The theme love is clearly highlighted in “The Happy Prince and ‘The
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home because they miss their families. In the story May B. the reader learns that you will always return to family no matter how far away you might be. In the beginning of the story‚ May had to leave her family to go work for another family‚ because she needed the money. Then she tries to return home because she was alone and she misses her family. Unfortunately‚ she goes through some obstacles on the way. “And I’ll get trapped out here in a blizzard. On my own”(122). B When May B. runs away‚ she realizes
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someone that they admire. That they fashion themselves to be just like. As for me‚ I guess I never thought about it. I didn’t ever think the question would come up in my everyday life‚ and when it did today‚ I was stumped. After thinking about it‚ it seemed like I was living my life without a any blueprint what so ever. I was making my own mistakes without looking to see what people in the past had done. It all started in speech class...We had to do a speech on a person that we admired most. I thought
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True Short Stories? I. Introduction Hook: A short story is a story with a fully developed theme‚ plot‚ and characters‚ but less elaborate than a novel. Book‚ Author: Blind Willow‚ Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami Thesis: Stories like A Shinagawa Monkey can be considered as short stories‚ as Murakami was able to present a realistic plot‚ a sophisticated theme‚ and a medley of colorful characters. II. Body Paragraph 1 Topic Sentence: The plot is the backbone of a story of any kind‚ and the short story
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In the short Story The Love Of My Life‚ the author Boyle presents us to a couple‚ China and Jeremy‚ so young and so in love‚ that they are blinded by it. Boyle made me as if I felt the couples love through his words and the pain they felt along the ride‚ but the love never failed and it was that‚ that caught my attention the most; Besides the fact that I am a sucker for love stories and although it ended tragic‚ it made an interesting plot. In the beginning‚ China and Jeremy were the perfect couple;
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A Home on the Other Side of the Mirror “Dillon‚ it’s time to go!” His father yelled from his car. His room was the only place left he could think. But maybe that was a good thing. He carried his suitcase downstairs‚ each step seeming like an inch closer to rock bottom. The door slams behind him‚ leaving the sounds of anger to echo throughout the house in despair that his mother might be listening and come running after him. She was gone now though. It had been only a few days since his mother
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mad man as he had always been. Jimmy lives in a shack by himself an hour away from the town. No one knows how long he has lived there for and no one ever wonders. Everyday he shows up at the liquor store to buy a pack of Red Marlboro‚ and then he goes straight to the grocery store for chocolate milk. It was raining rapidly and everyone hurried from one place to another‚ with their enormous umbrellas blocking their faces. Everybody seems to be in a terrible mood maybe due to the weather. “ Damn
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cannot allow yourself to be selfish which can be very hard. A Journey is a short story written by Colm Tòibin. The short story is told by a limited third person narrator‚ and because of that we only hear about the main character’s thought and opinions. We see the events and other characters from his viewpoint. It makes it a bit more unreliable when it is a subjective narrator. If we were told the short story from David’s or Seamus’ point of view or if it was an omniscient narrator‚ it would
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