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 […]
Great Short Stories (and lesson plans) for the End of the School Year
April 30, 2018 By Trenton Lorcher
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 Ransom of Red Chief” Lesson Plans
January 10, 2018 By Trenton Lorcher
It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama – Mr. Driscoll and myself-when this “Ransom of Red Chief” lesson plan involving reading the story and answering the questions idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, “during a moment of temporary mental apparition”; […]
Filed Under: Short Stories, The Ransom of Red Chief