English II Pre-AP
Outside Reading SHORT STORIES: Spring 2016
Parents: The following list provides the short story options for students’ outside reading project for the semester.
If you would like to preview the stories before approving of your son or daughter’s choice, digital copies will be
available on my website on the “Outside Reading Project” page. (Please note that I have marked out some use of adult
language and content on the copies of the stories students will receive.)
Donald Barthelme
The Genius
Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning
Jamaica Kincaid
Girl
Figures in the Distance
T.C. Boyle
Heart of a Champion
Top of the Food Chain
Flannery O’Connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Good Country People
Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Are These Actual Miles
Joyce Carol Oates
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Life After High School
Kate Chopin
Desiree’s Baby
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Fall of the House of Usher
Sandra Cisneros
Mericans
Woman Hollering Creek
Eudora Welty
A Worn Path
Why I Live at the P.O.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Tobias Wolff
The Night in Question
Mortals
STUDENT:
Student Name:_____________________________ Author Choice:______________________
I understand that I will be responsible for reading these stories outside of class.
Student Signature:___________________________________ Date: ________________
PARENT:
I understand that my student will be responsible for reading these stories outside of class.
Parent Signature:_____________________________________Date:________________