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 irony you need to teach, we have that, too.
Takeaways
- Students love stories with irony and there are a ton of them.
- The understanding irony lesson plan can be used with any short story that contains irony. It will help students master the standard of citing textual evidence to support analysis.
- Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is easy to read, easy to teach, and serves as a great short story for teaching irony.
Links and Resources
- Irony Lesson Plans Collection
- “The Necklace” at elacommoncorelessonplans.com
- “The Interlopers” theme lesson plan at elacommoncorelessonplans.com
- “The Story of an Hour” at elacommoncorelessonplans.com
- Short Stories for Teaching Irony at elacommoncorelessonplans.com
- More Short Stories for Teaching Irony at elacommoncorelessonplans.com
Last Updated on October 8, 2021 by Trenton Lorcher
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