Helpful Links
- For a musical review of the element of short stories click here.
- Love short stories? Read some more great American short stories here.
- Short story tropes appear more often than you would think! To see where ideas presented in "The Most Dangerous Game" show up in pop culture, click here.
- To boldly go where no man has gone before… Short stories take us places we could never imagine. To have Leonard Nimoy transport you to a dark future by reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Be Soft Rains," click here.
Technology Uses
- The Plot: Direct Instruction lesson includes a Presi presentation to visually explain the elements of plot in short stories. See it here.
- The Introduction: Multimedia Inquiry lesson includes a Smart Board lesson to present information to the students and have them interact with new knowledge. See it here. The students will also need to navigate the internet during this lesson.
- To present their original short stories, the students will create a podcast of them reading their work. To see an example of the type of software they will be using, click here.
Technology Standards
These, as well as the rest of the unit standards, can be found on Unit Standards, Goals, & Objectives page as well.
- HS.SI.1.1 Evaluate resources for reliability. (Reliability can be determined by currency, credibility, authority, etc. depending on the curriculum topic).
- HS.SI.1.3 Evaluate content for relevance to the assigned task.
- HS.TT.1.1 Use appropriate technology tools and other resources to access information (multi-database search engines, online primary resources, virtual interviews with content experts).
- HS.TT.1.3 Use appropriate technology tools and other resources to design products to share information with others (e.g. multimedia presentations, Web 2.0 tools, graphics, podcasts, and audio files).
- HS.SE.1.2 Analyze safety issues and practices when using online resources (legal and criminal consequences, long-term career consequences of behavior).