Intro to Lit: First short Story Unit

9th grade class: Freshman English

Fiction

Plot: Rising action: Complication;Climax; Resolution

"Feud" Sherwood Anderson; "Most Dangerous Game" Richard Connell

Theme: Resolution of Conflict: man v. man, man v. Nature, man v. Technology; man v. Society, man v. himself

"If You Hear that a Thousand People Love You," Guadalupe de Saavedra; "Lamb to the Slaughter" Roald Dahl

Character; Antagonist, protagonist, dynamic, static "Major Minor"

"The Necklace," Guy de Maupassant; "The Scarlet Ibis," James Hurst

The Setting: Time, Place, Era

"The Man to Send Rain Clouds," Leslie Silko; 

Point of View (POV)

"the Big Trip" Elsin Ann Gardner; A Death in the House," Clifford Simak

First Short Story Unit: 74 Pages, 32,324 words, images