Description Engage your students in a meaningful study of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams with this classroom-ready lesson plan. This resource supports a close look at the s...
Description In this short story analysis of “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken, students explore the timeless theme that wishes may seem appealing, but they often come at a ...
Description This resource provides a complete literary analysis of “We Ate the Children Last” by Yann Martel, making it an excellent choice for teaching dystopian literature or ...
Description “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a powerful and unsettling short story that works especially well for Women’s History Month or lessons focused o...
Description Engage your students in a meaningful study of Willa Cather’s “The Burglar’s Christmas” with this classroom-ready lesson plan. This resource guides students through a...
Description This lesson includes complete before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading activities for the powerful short story “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison. In this hear...
Description “Snow” by Julia Álvarez is a poignant short story about a young immigrant girl named Yolanda experiencing snow in New York City for the first time. Excerpted from Ál...
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 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 This resource provides a complete literary analysis of the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, guiding students through close reading, critical thinking, a...
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 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 This resource for “My Name” by Sandra Cisneros includes before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading activities, making it a meaningful addition to your curricu...
Description “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton challenges students to think deeply about human nature, choice, justice, and consequences. Famous for its unresolved e...
Description “I Am Not My Skin” by Neema Komba is a powerful short story that explores identity, self-worth, and resilience, making it an excellent choice for meaningful and refl...
Description “The Hand” by Guy de Maupassant (1883) is a classic gothic short story that works beautifully in a gothic literature or short story unit. Dark, suspenseful, and psyc...
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 reading comprehension guide and literary analysis for “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl includes structured before-reading, during-reading, and after-readin...
Description One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous and sinister tales, “The Cask of Amontillado,” is a gripping short story that never fails to captivate students. Dark, suspensef...
Description This resource for “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto includes engaging before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading activities designed to support reading comprehensi...
