Short Stories 2012-2013

Our FIRST Unit of Short Stories will include:

The Management of Grief (Lit Book page 224-236) by Bharati Mukherjee

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (Lit Book page 314-315 or 306-308 ... depending on versions)

A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan (Page 166-193)

NOTE: Trail of the Green Blazer was also covered...not in our book.

Concepts:

Theme...Search for self/identity

Man vs Self Conflicts

Culture/Gender

FOIL

The Journey ... Discovery

Distance ... physically and mentally

Irony

Metaphor

Symbolism

Imagery

Foreshadowing

Looking Beyond surface level...reading between the lines

Learning about cultures from reading