Description This dystopian short story literary analysis of “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. provides a complete set of before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading...
Description “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry is a timeless short story that fits perfectly into Christmas and holiday season lessons. With its focus on love, sacrifice, and ge...
Description “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is a powerful and eye-opening short story that introduces students to issues of economic inequality, social class, and privilege in...
Description Read the dystopian short story The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster, a prophetic cautionary tale that imagines a world completely dependent on technology. Written long...
Description Have your students read the unsettling short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, a futuristic tale in which technology designed to make life easier becomes dangerous—...
Description The Body Snatcher is a chilling Gothic mystery short story by Robert Louis Stevenson that never fails to captivate students. Told through an embedded narrative, this...
Description Guilty or not guilty?! Let your students decide the fate of the narrator from “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe in this engaging, trial-style literary analysi...
Description “Désirée’s Baby” is a powerful short story by Kate Chopin, first published in 1893, that explores issues of racism, sexism, identity, and power in the Antebellum Sou...
Description Have your class complete a literary analysis of the eerie short story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl with this engaging, ready-to-use lesson. Students begin with an an...
Description Students will love the sweet and meaningful short story “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, and this reading comprehension guide and lesson plan helps them analyze the text wh...
Description In this resource, students read and analyze the science fiction and dystopian novella “The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick, a thought-provoking text that raises t...
Description Have your students read the creepy, Gothic short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe and deepen their understanding with engaging before-reading, during-reading...
Description This lesson plan provides a complete literary analysis of Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl,” originally published in The New Yorker in 1978. Although the text is ...
Description “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers is a powerful coming-of-age short story in which an adolescent boy learns an unexpected lesson about the value of ...
Description This resource provides a complete literary analysis of the short story “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara, with structured before-reading, during-reading, and afte...
Description In this resource, students read and analyze the dystopian short story “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a chilling vision of a future where aging and disease have been ...
Description Use Zora Neale Hurston’s powerful short story “Sweat” to teach feminist literature, highlight influential African American authors, and explore theme and Biblical al...
Description “Names/Nombres” by Julia Álvarez is a powerful personal essay in which Alvarez reflects on her family’s early years as Dominican immigrants in the United States. Thr...
Description This resource focuses on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and provides structured reading comprehension questions along with a Gothic literature an...
Description “The Pedestrian” is a dystopian short story by Ray Bradbury, set in the year 2053, that draws unsettling parallels to modern society’s obsession with technology and ...
