Assessment and Learning Goals Relationships
Teacher: Sonjah
Subject: English
Grade: 9-12
Unit: The Short Story
Assessment #1
Double Entry Journal: with weekly reflection on
each specific literary focus as it relates to a
variety of short stories: Characterization, Plot,
Setting, P.O.V and Theme, Share out via Round
Robin Discussion and come to a consensus on
each. (IWS IVP FWT)
Course Summary:
In this course, students will be
introduced the major literary
elements of the short story genre.
They will read and analyze
elements through a variety of
readings and create their own short
stories to demonstrate their
knowledge of the genre and its
elements
Understanding Goal
In the short story fiction writers use specific
elements and techniques to successfully achieve
desired effect on an audience.
Learning Targets
SWBAT:
Assessment #5
Rationale Paper: Demonstrate
clear understanding of short
story by writing a rationale
paper for the use of character,
setting, plot, p.ov. and theme
in the stories they created.
(FWT)
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Assessment #4
Create a Short Story:
Students will write their own short story
manipulating the 5 key literary elements
to achieve a specific effect on their
Target Audiences. (IVPFWT)
Assessment #2
Understand and identify the basic plot structure of a short
story
Identify and analyze the 6 major elements of a short
story: Character, Conflict, Setting, Plot , P.O.V and Theme
Write an original short story which incorporates the 5
major elements of a short story.
Critically discuss the use of the key literary elements and
devices of a short story and the author’s manipulation of
those elements within a story.
Plot Diagram:
Analyzing three stories from the
same author, creating a plot
diagram illustrating how each story
is presented to the audience and
writing a short comparison of how
plot is used in each.
(IWSFWT)
Assessment #3
Mind Mapping and Characterization
Chart:Internal and external conflict
tracking. (IVPFWT)
High School Level Short Story Literature Bank
H.H. Munro (Saki)
Louisa May Alcott
The Mouse
Jack-a-Boy
Sredni Vashtar
The Burglar's Christmas
The Garden Lodge
A Country Christmas
Kitty's Class Day
Anton Chekhov
The Bet
How I Went Out to Service
The Schoolmistress
Scarlet Stockings
The Shoemaker and the Devil
A Modern Cinderella Or, The Little
The Lady with the Little Dog
Old Shoe
A Story Without a Title
May Flowers
Grisha
A Father
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Cruise of the Dolphin
Julia Alvarez
The Daughter of Invention
Old Age
The Little Mermaid
The Looking-Glass
Hans Christian Andersen
Sherwood Anderson
Difficult People
Sorrow
A Joke
The Egg
Small Fry
Sophistication
The Student
The Strength of God
Lucius Apuleius
Stephen Vincent Benet
About Love
Cupid and Psyche
A Dead Body
A Bad Business
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Expensive Lessons
By the Waters of Babylon
A Classical Student
Ambros Bierce
My Favourite Murder
A Happy Man
Ambrose Bierce
Present at a Hanging
The Doctor
A Misfortune
A Horseman in the Sky
The Beggar
Beyond the Wall
Art
The Boarded Window
Chickamauga
One Summer Night
Terror
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A Slander
One Of The Missing
What I Saw of Shiloh
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Paul Bowles
Ray Bradbury
In the Red Room
A Day in the Country
Charles W. Chesnutt
Kate Chopin
The Sheriff's Children
A Pair of Silk Stockings
The Storm
The Locket
All Summer in a Day
A Reflection
There Will Come Soft Rains
A Respectable Woman
The Utterly Perfect Murder
The Pedestrian
Desiree's Baby
Truman Capote
A Christmas Memory
The Story of an Hour
Raymond Carver
Everything Stuck to Him
Agatha Christie
Wasps' Nest
Paul's Case
Richard Connell
The Most Dangerous Game
Willa Cather
A Wagner Matinee
The Sculptor's Funeral
A Death in the Desert
Regret
James Fenimore Cooper
The Lake Gun
Robert Cormier
The Mustache
Stephen Crane
A Mystery of Heroism
A Desertion
A Dark Brown Dog
Thomas Hardy
An Imaginative Woman
Bret Harte
Lamb to the Slaughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Birthmark
Beware of the Dog
Rappaccini's Daughter
Man From the South
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Wives of the Dead
The Baron of Grogzwig
The Ambitious Guest
The Poor Relation's Story
David Swan
Mrs. Bullfrog
His Last Bow
The Great Carbuncle
Wakefield
Copper Beeches
The Gray Champion
A Case of Identity
Feathertop
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Ralph Ellison
William Faulkner
The Red-Headed League
Alice Doane's Appeal
Battle Royal
The Minister's Black Veil
Barn Burning
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
The Great Stone Face
Ernest Hemingway
In Another Country
The Short Happy Life of Francis
Long Distance
Macomber
The Leading Lady
The Old Man at the Bridge
The Three of Them
The Eldest
That's Marriage
The Frog and the Puddle
Jack Finney
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ambrose Flack
E. M. Forster
Of Missing Persons
Mona Gardner
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
Edward Everett Hale
The Ransom of Red Chief
The Furnished Room
The Green Door
The Cop and the Anthem
Last Leaf
The Roads We Take
Winter Dreams
The Coming-Out of Maggie
The Strangers That Came to Town
The Story of the Siren
Buried Treasure
Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
Springtime a la Carte
Between Rounds
The Eternal Moment
The Princess and the Puma
The Farmer and the Fox
The Hiding of Black Bill
The Dinner Party
The Old Nurse's Story
The Half-Brothers
The Manchester Marriage
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
O. Henry
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Mr. Andrews
James Anthony Froude
Soldier's Home
The Killers
A Rose For Emily
Edna Ferber
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Young Goodman Brown
The Landlady
Charles Dickens
The Luck of Roaring Camp
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
An Ominous Baby
Roald Dahl
Squire Petrick's Lady
A Chaparral Prince
Hearts and Crosses
A Blackjack Bargainer
Transients in Arcadia
The Skylight Room
The Purple Dress
Mammon and the Archer
The Yellow Wallpaper
Girl
The Man without a Country
Schools and Schools
The Cactus
The Whirligig Of Life
Alf's Dream
Best-Seller
The Dreamer
The Dog and the Playlet
Lawyer Quince
No Story
Sentence Deferred
Christmas by Injunction
Manners Makyth Man
Proof of the Pudding
A Tiger's Skin
What You Want
The Well
An Unfinished Story
Matrimonial Openings
The Call of the Tame
The Monkey's Paw
Babes in the Jungle
The Gold That Glittered
Henry James
Turn of the Screw
The Unknown Quantity
The Middle Years
The Duel
The Girl and the Habit
A Municipal Report
Compliments of the Season
Thomas Jefferson
Sarah Orne Jewett
Edward D. Hoch
Ernst Theodor Amadeus
Hoffman
Langston Hughes
James Joyce
Counterparts
The Last Unicorns
After the Race
The Dead
An Encounter
The Cremona Violin
Araby
Eveline
Thank You, M'am
The Last Spin
James Hurst
The Scarlet Ibis
The Boarding House
Two Gallants
A Little Cloud
Rudyard Kipling
The Stout Gentleman
Rip Van Winkle
After You My Dear Alphonse
The Lottery
W.W. Jacobs
Odd Man Out
Bill's Lapse
Admiral Peters
The Man Who Was
Ring Lardner
D.H. Lawrence
Doris Lessing
Abraham Lincoln
Jack London
Haircut
The Rocking Horse Winner
Through The Tunnel
Gettysburg Address
In a Far Country
The God of His Fathers
Friends in Need
Aloha Oe
Good Intentions
The Sickness of Lone Chief
Watch-Dogs
When Alice Told Her Soul
Fairy Gold
Brown Wolf
The Guardian Angel
When the World Was Young
The Castaway
The League of the Old Men
For Better or Worse
To Build A Fire
Double Dealing
A Wicked Woman
Her Uncle
Captain Rogers
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
The Man Who Would Be King
The Devil and Tom Walker
The Specter Bridegroom
Shirley Jackson
Clay
Speech in the Virginia Convention
Evan Hunter
Washington Irving
A White Heron
The White Rose Road
The Fifth Wheel
Patrick Henry
Declaration of Independence
Decoration Day
Psyche and the Pskyscraper
The Gift of the Magi
The Real Thing
Katherine Mansfield
The Stranger
The Garden Party
Miss Brill
Herman Melville
The Piazza
The Fly
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Bliss
The Man Without A Temperament
The Lady's Maid
The Singing Lesson
The Voyage
Frank O'Connnor
Flannery O'Connor
Somerset Maugham
The Verger
Guy de Maupassant
A Ghost
The Hand
Friend Patience
The Hairpin
Two Friends
The Donkey
The Dowry
The Wolf
The Adopted Son
After
A Father's Confession
Frank O'Connor
The Sniper
James O'Keefe
Death Makes a Comeback
Joyce Carol Oates
George Orwell
Grace Paley
Dorothy Parker
Edgar Allan Poe
The Angel of the Odd
The Black Cat
The Pit and the Pendulum
Coco
The Masque of the Red Death
The Unknown
The Tell-Tale Heart
An Affair of State
The Cask of Amontillado
Mademoiselle Fifi
An Unfortunate Likeness
David McLean
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Imp of the Perverse
Bellflower
Countess Satan
The Last Tea
Ourang-Outangs
A Dead Woman's Secret
The Artist
Anxiety
Hop-Frog or the Eight Chained
A Coward
My Uncle Jules
Shooting an Elephant
The Man of the Crowd
The Kiss
The Accursed Bread
You Been?
The Premature Burial
The Terror
The Impolite Sex
Where Are You Going, Where Have
The Oval Portrait
At Sea
The Devil
First Confession
Liam O'Flaherty
Farewell
The Inn
Own
My Oedipus Complex
The Log
A Cremation
The Life You Save May Be Your
Everything that Rises Must Converge
An Ideal Family
Mr. and Mrs. Dove
The Drunkard
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
The Young Girl
Bank Holiday
The Lightning-Rod Man
Edgar Allen Poe
Katherine Anne Porter
Horacio Quiroga
Majorie K. Rawlings
A.M. Rosenthal
Saki
The Purloined Letter
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
The Feather Pillow
A Mother in Mannville
There Is No News from Auschwitz
The Interlopers
The Diary of a Madman
The Storyteller
The Sequel to a Divorce
Fate
The Necklace
Dusk
Marine Corps Issue
The Byzantine Omelette
The Background
Mark Twain
A Telephonic Conversation
The Blind Spot
Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
The Bag
The Captain's Story
A Defensive Diamond
Eve's Diary
Shock Tactics
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Down Pens
The Five Boons of Life
The Image of the Lost Soul
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
The Wolves of Cernogratz
Calaveras County
The Penance
My First Lie and How I Got Out of It
The Baker's Dozen
The Hounds of Fate
Ministers of Grace
Louis
Louise
The Music on the Hill
Mark
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
Booker T. Washington
H.G. Wells
The Hen
A Bread and Butter Miss
The Pond
Eudora Welty
Edith Wharton
The Holy War
E.B. White
Frank Stockton
Frank R. Stockton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Afterward
Once More to the Lake
Oscar Wilde
The Selfish Giant
The Young King
The Open Window
The Sphinx Without a Secret
The Girls in their Summer Dresses
The Remarkable Rocket
The Devoted Friend
The Nightingale and the Rose
Markheim
The Model Millionaire
The Griffin and the Minor Canon
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Canterville Ghost
The Lady or the Tiger?
The Ghost in the Mill
Jesse Stuart
Split Cherry Tree
Amy Tan
Rules of the Game
Dylan Thomas
A Child's Christmas in Wales
James Thurber
The Princess and the Tin Box
Leo Tolstoy
A Worn Path
The Door
Quail Seed
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Star
The Other Two
Reginald on Worries
Forewarned
Early Days at Tuskegee
Roman Fever
A Shot in the Dark
The Threat
Everyday Use
Souls Belated
The Cobweb
The Quest
Harrison Bergeron
The Time Machine
Tea
Irwin Shaw
Luck
A Touch of Realism
The Happy Prince
Thomas Wolfe
The Far and the Near
The Lost Boy
Tobias Wolff
J. Taylor Wood
Virginia Woolf
Hunters in the Snow
The Capture of a Slaver
A Haunted House
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Kew Gardens
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
The Duchess and the Jeweller
God Sees the Truth, But Waits
Ivan the Fool
What Men Live By, and other tales
The Mark on the Wall
A Society