Unit Objectives:

• review literary terms

• read some great short fiction

• improve vocabulary

• discuss literary themes

• write an essay (character development, compare contrast, or other)

Unit Assignments:

• read (Perrine) chapters 1-6 (not including stories) and complete a "quiz"

• review literary elements of fiction

• read individual stories and complete questions or activities for individual stories

• write an essay from a choice of several options

Stories for this unit: (click on links for assignments/activities)

• The Dead, James Joyce

• Araby, James Joyce

• The Death of Ivan Illych, Tolstoy

• Paul's Case, Willa Cather

• Two of three stories by Flannery O'Connor: Greenleaf, Good Country People, A Good Man is Hard to Find

• Choose and read a story from Stories for Further Reading in your Perrine or find a story online (get it approved first).

Short stories online

Bibiomania

http://www.bibliomania.com/0/-/frameset.html

online Dubliners

http://www.online-library.org/James-Joyce/index-dub.htm

 Kate Chopin online

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/Chopin/ 

Free library of classics

http://www.information-resources.com/Library/library.html

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