Feast your eyes on Fiction-- The Short Story
CHECKLIST FOR THIS UNIT
Task 1: Literary terms pre-test
Task 2: Flash cards made in quizlet over the literary terms
Task 3: 3 Little Pigs group activity
Task 4: Make a plot mountain chart using the details from The Most Dangerous Game
Task 5: Worksheet over The Ransom of Red Chief
Task 6: Movie Trailer types of conflict
Task 7: Blog Question
Task 8: One-on-one discussion with Mrs. Donnenwerth over story
Task 9: Soundtrack over the story of your choosing
Task 10: Short Story Unit Test
Task 2: Flash cards made in quizlet over the literary terms
Task 3: 3 Little Pigs group activity
Task 4: Make a plot mountain chart using the details from The Most Dangerous Game
Task 5: Worksheet over The Ransom of Red Chief
Task 6: Movie Trailer types of conflict
Task 7: Blog Question
Task 8: One-on-one discussion with Mrs. Donnenwerth over story
Task 9: Soundtrack over the story of your choosing
Task 10: Short Story Unit Test
TASK 1:
TAKE THE PREQUIZ FOR THIS UNIT FOUND HERE. This is not graded, but do your best on it so that you and I have an accurate way to evaluate what you've learned at the end of the unit.
CONFLICT- The problem in the story
There are 5 types of conflict found in movies and literature. You are probably familiar with them. A movie or story can have more than one of these types, and most times they do.
The five types of conflict are:
1. Person vs. Person
2. Person vs. Self
3. Person vs. Society
4. Person vs. Nature
5. Person vs. God/Fate
Task 6: Click on the title of each movie below. Each link will take you to a different movie trailer. For each movie trailer, identify which type of conflict the movie would most fall under (choose one even though several could apply). THEN, explain why you choose that type of conflict. Again, you will be doing this for EACH movie trailer. They are all a matter of opinion, so providing a complete explanation for each is important.
Romeo & Juliet
The King's Speech
Tangled
Cast Away
The Help
The five types of conflict are:
1. Person vs. Person
2. Person vs. Self
3. Person vs. Society
4. Person vs. Nature
5. Person vs. God/Fate
Task 6: Click on the title of each movie below. Each link will take you to a different movie trailer. For each movie trailer, identify which type of conflict the movie would most fall under (choose one even though several could apply). THEN, explain why you choose that type of conflict. Again, you will be doing this for EACH movie trailer. They are all a matter of opinion, so providing a complete explanation for each is important.
Romeo & Juliet
The King's Speech
Tangled
Cast Away
The Help
TASK 3: Small-Group Activity
I will assign your groups. As a group, click on the title below called The Three Little Pigs. It will take you to the classic children's story. Read through it as a group. Discuss the topics outlined on the chart below, and create your own chart over the story.
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME- By Richard Connell
For the full text of the story, click HERE
This will be our first short story. We will read it in class. As we read, be thinking about what is happening in the story and decide where these details might fall on the plot mountain that we discussed in class.
TASK 4: Get in to pairs or groups of three. As a group you will draw a plot mountain on poster board. Label each phase of the mountain and write their definitions as well. THEN, write details from the story that happened in each section.
This will be our first short story. We will read it in class. As we read, be thinking about what is happening in the story and decide where these details might fall on the plot mountain that we discussed in class.
TASK 4: Get in to pairs or groups of three. As a group you will draw a plot mountain on poster board. Label each phase of the mountain and write their definitions as well. THEN, write details from the story that happened in each section.
THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF- By O' Henry
The next story we will read in class is The Ransom of Red Chief. For the full text of the story, click here.
Task 5: Download the document below called ROR Worksheet. As we read the story as a class, complete the sheet.
Task 5: Download the document below called ROR Worksheet. As we read the story as a class, complete the sheet.
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THE LADY OR THE TIGER
A great love torn apart. If she can't have, could she let anyone else?
The Lady or the Tiger- Click title for the full text
THE LADY OR THE TIGER Audio- To listen to the story, click on the play button below.
THE DISCOURAGER OF HESITANCY- By Frank Stockton
"MRS. DONNENWERTH!!! I CAN'T STAND IT! WAS IT THE LADY OR THE TIGER?!" Don't you wish Frank Stockton would put you out of your misery and write a darn sequal? Well look no further!...Click here to get to the full text of the sequal called The Discourager of Hesitancy.
THANK YOU, MA'AM- By Langston Hughes
The story of a boy, an old woman, and a purse.
Click here for the full text.
Click here for the full text.
Press the play button below to listen to the full audio of Thank You, Ma'am
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO- By Edgar Allen Poe
Click HERE for the full text
Below is the audio for the story. Listen to this recording as you follow along independently. I have inserted 10 questions into the story. As you listen/read, a bell will sound when it is time to answer a question. Some of these questions will require you to use a dictionary or Google. After you hear me ask a question, pause the recording and record your answers on a pages document. What you are finished you should have 10 questions. You can submit the pages document on turnitin.com.
The Cask of Amontillado- AUDIO
The Chaser- By John Collier
Click HERE for the full text
Click the play button below for the full audio
You have a test over the terms, stories, and authors from our short story unit. You need to make sure the following terms are in your notes:
*Simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, hyperbole
*Tone, mood, theme, symbol
*5 types of conflict
*First person point of view, third person limited, third person objective, omniscient
*Irony of situation, verbal irony, dramatic irony
*Author, narrator, protagonist, antagonist, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
DOWNLOAD THE DOCUMENT BELOW CALLED SHORT STORY STUDY CHART AND USE YOUR NOTES TO COMPLETE THE CHART ON THE DOCUMENT. YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO USE THIS CAHRT ON YOUR TEST, BUT NONE OF YOUR OTHER NOTES.
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