In today’s episode of the Teaching ELA Podcast, I discuss several short stories for teaching irony: “The Necklace,” “The Interlopers,” “The Machine that Won the War,” “The Blue Hotel,” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” I’ve got an emergency lesson plan you can get on the board right now. And if there’s one short story involving […]
Teaching Irony with These Short Stories
September 27, 2021 By Trenton Lorcher
Filed Under: Gift of the Magi, Interlopers, Podcast, Short Stories
Great Short Stories (and lesson plans) for the End of the School Year
April 30, 2018 By Trenton Lorcher
Although we all love National Poetry Month, we love when it ends because that means summer vacation approaches. But there’s still a month left. May is not the time for English Romantic poetry, Victorian novels, or James Joyce. May is the time for high interest short stories. May is the time for short stories easy […]
Filed Under: All Summer in a Day, Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket, Harrison Bergeron, Interlopers, Jumping Frog, Leiningen vs the Ants, Most Dangerous Game, Open Window, Rocking Horse Winner, Short Stories, Sound of Thunder, The Fun They Had, The Lottery, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Sniper, The Veldt, There Will Come Soft Rains, Through the Tunnel
“The Interlopers” Discussion Questions
April 12, 2016 By Trenton Lorcher
The forest classroom of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with “Interlopers” discussion questions; the narrow strip of portables that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the students it harboured or the teaching comforts it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all the school’s territorial possessions. A famous […]
Filed Under: Interlopers, Literary Analysis, Short Stories