Short+Story+Unit

Creation Accounts Assignments

[|Greek / Roman Creation] [|Hebrew / Christian Creation] [|African / Bushmen Creation] [|Australian / Aboriginal Creation] [|Iroquois Creation] [|Chinese Creation] [|Folklore and Creation] [|Creation Stories From Around the World] [|Creation Stories From Around the World 2] [|Creation Stories from Around the World 3] [|Japanese Creation Stories]

Greek and Roman Mythology Archetypes

1. [|Prometheus and Pandora] 2. [|Midas, Baucis, and Philemon] 3. [|Echo and Narcissus] 4. [|Jason and the Golden Fleece] 5. [|The Trojan War] 6. [|Ulysses' Adventures] 7. [|Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus] [|The Odyssey by Homer] [|The Iliad by Homer] [|Stories from Greek Mythology]

Beowulf [|Beowulf] The Original Old English Version

[|Beowulf, The Modern Version:]

Beowulf, The Even More Modern Version: [|Part One: Grendel Attacks] [|Part Two: Beowulf Comes to Herot] [|Part Three: Grendel Meets Beowulf] [|Part Four: Beowulf Meets Grendel's Mother] [|Part Five: Beowulf Goes to Grendel's Mother's Lair]

The Canterbury Tales

[|The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer]

Short Stories

Edgar Allen Poe: [|"The Tell-Tale Heart"]  [|"The Masque of the Red Death"] Leo Tolstoy: [|"How Much Land Does A Man Need"] William Faulkner: [|"A Rose for Emily"] Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "[|A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings]" If you can't access this link, then open the file up in the PDF below. Anita Desai [|"Games at Twilight"] James Joyce, "Araby"

Katherine Masfield "The Garden Party" [|The Garden Party]

Reader Response Journal Reader Response Journal Example


 * Essay Topics**

Compare the role of the narrators in two or three stories you have studied in class. What effect did the narrator in this particular story seem to have on the story itself?

Using two or three stories you have studied, examine the use of irony in the story. What effect did it have upon the deeper meaning of the story? How did it create suspense within the story? Why was it used?

“A writer conveys not only experiences but a whole world in which these are possible.” With respect to two or three works you have studied, discuss whether the author has created a coherent, imagined “world”.

In what ways and for what purposes have your writers made use of the fantastic and/or unusual in two or three works you have studied? What effect did these unusual events/characters have upon the story?

Language itself is a work of art; it selects, abstracts, exaggerates and orders. In what ways have writers in your study compelled you to support or question this view? How does the diction influence the understanding of the piece? Use two or three texts to illustrate your point.