Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Short Stories: Instruction Page 2: Short Stories
This lesson focues on plot, irony, and suspense as seen in short stories by Richard Connell and Edgar Allan Poe. It defines each term and provides examples.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Short Stories: "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
This lesson focuses on the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. It includes links to a Discovery Education video about Edgar Allan Poe (Registration Required), a PoeDecoder page for "The Cask of Amontillado," a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Short Story
This lesson is an introduction to the modern short story including defining the short story, how the modern short story differs from the classic short story, the elements of a short story, and what is to be expected in this unit.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Short Stories
This lesson provides and introduction to a short story unit. It focuses the lessons and morals taught by short stories and the use of literary elements in fiction. I provides a list of essential questions.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: British Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: Short Stories
This is a lesson from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism; it focuses on three short stories from the period: "A Shocking Accident" by Graham Greene, "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence, and "No Witchcraft for Sale" by Doris...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:how to Read and Analyze a Short Story
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this learning module, the user will learn to read and analyze a short story using knowledge of literary and poetic devices.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Short Stories: "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This lesson focuses on the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It features links to the article "The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 and 'Young Goodman Brown'" and the PDF text for the short story. It also defines...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature: Short Stories: "The Necklace"
This lesson focuses on the short story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. It defines irony and the types of irony and provides links to a PDF text of "The Necklace" and reading questions.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: 20th Century Postmodernism: Short Stories: Virginia Woolf
This lesson is from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism and focuses on Virginia Woolf and her short stories. It includes links to her biography, a timeline of her life, and two short stories: "Death of the Moth" and "Three Pictures."...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: Postmodernism: Short Stories: James Joyce
This is a lesson from a unit on Postmodernism; it focuses on James Joyce, his life and works including the short story "Araby," which is offered in a PDF link for students to read. A link is also provided to a more in-depth biography of...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Horror Stories of Stephen King; Teacher's Guide. [Pdf]
Fourteen-page teacher guide for Stephen King's horror short stories includes selections from three books: "Night Shift," "Nightmares & Dreamscapes," and "Skeleton Crew." Features in-depth overview of King's life and writing. Provides...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Writing a Short Story
This seven-page example is of a short story entitled "T-formity." Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Other
What Is a Short Story?
An essay that attempts to answer that question. The author is an author and teacher, and is understandably troubled with the idea of defining exactly what a "short story" is.
Other
Native American Bedtime Story Collection
This site provides eleven short stories based on different Native American stories. Stories from different tribes such as Navajo and Lakota.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Penn: Bliss and Other Stories; Ebook
Read the full text of 14 Katharine Mansfield stories.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Six Short Stories for Short People by Fred w.b. Bouverie
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Six Short Stories for Short People by Fred W.B. Bouverie (1861), a collection children's stories.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Short Stories for Short People
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Short Stories for Short People by Alicia Stuart Aspinwall, a book of stories for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Short Stories for Children by Charlotte Elizabaeth
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Short Stories for Children by Charlotte Elizabaeth, a collection of children's short stories.
Other
Short Story Elements
Geared toward high school students, this site contains many notes and links on the aspects of short story, figurative language, and figures of speech.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant [Pdf]
This is a six page PDF of the short story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. Read to find out what happened to the borrowed diamond necklace.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story?
First this page asks students to read a short story called "A Jury of Her Peers." Then, this page asks students to "Read about the elements of a good short story and to take part in activities related to 'A Jury of Her Peers.'"
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life
Maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, this site offers the full text of Guy de Maupassant's "Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life" which includes 27 short stories. Also provided are...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Short Story [Pdf]
A short group of exercises for students concerning the elements of a short story. Allows students to examine the major story elements, then apply those elements to a given piece of literature.
TES Global
Blendspace: Short Stories
A thirteen-part learning module on short stories including links to videos, images, graphic organizers, games, informational sites, and more.
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