| Performance Indicators:
P.S ELA-2 Reading Analysis: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. A. Evaluate the relevant themes and synthesize how they are present in the novel in oral and written responses. P.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text. A. Understand SOAPSTone: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone |
The short stories assigned below constitute the reading for the remainder of the first quarter. Each story may be annotated as you desire; the link included outlines the recommended concepts that you are encouraged to explore as you read: Short Story Summary Guidelines. Along with the Short Story Literary Terms, the guidelines will serve as the foundation for analyzing the short stories.
Group 1 Stories
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Stone Boy by Gina Berriault
Group 2 Stories
A&P by John Updike
A Beginner’s Guide to Burning Cardboard Walls by Jay Ackley
Group 3 Stories
All the People Were Mean by Lucy Caldwell
The Laughing Man by J.D. Salinger
Group 4 Stories
A Mother’s Tale by James Agee
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez