Minnesota State High School League
2009-2010 Extemporaneous Reading – Prose
Book & Selections
Points of View
An Anthology of Short Stories
Edited By: James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElheny
Copyright: 1995
Published by: New American Library, a division of Penguin Group
Cost: $8.99
To:
Speech Directors
From: Barbara K. Seng, MSHSL Consultant
Re: Points of View
The Points of View book we are using this year and next is the 1995 copyright. Cuttings for subsection, section and state contests will be taken from this edition. Therefore, you may wish to have at
least one copy of this edition.
In coaching this event, instruct students to read the “theme” introduction for each section to help
students develop introductions.
Reading “The Preface: and “The Afterword” should also help students in analysis and interpretation.
Have a good season.
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Title
Author
Page
A Telephone Call
The Lady’s Maid
Bundle of Letters
A Wilderness Station
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Somebody
My Sister’s Marriage
A&P
The Circuit
The Passing
The Eggs of the World
The Stone Boy
Sinking House
Fever Flower
The Suicides of Private Greaves
Dorothy Parker
Katherine Mansfield
Henry James
Alice Munro
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Danny Santiago
Cynthia Marshall Rich
John Updike
Francisco Jimenez
Durango Mendoza
Toshio Mori
Gina Berriault
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Shirley Ann Grau
James Moffett
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