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English 9 - Short Story Unit

Homework

Please be sure you have read and have a thorough understanding of the following short stories found in your anthology Adventures in Reading

For each short story do the following:

A. Identify the following elements of the plot:

1. Crisis

2. Conflict

3. Climax

4. Resolution

B. Describe how the characters change or develop.

C. Discuss the theme of the story in a paragraph

Short Stories

"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell (pp. 2-16)

"The Lady, or the Tiger" by Frank Stockton (pp. 19-23)

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber (pp. 31-35)

"All the Years of Her Life" by Morley Callaghan (pp. 38-42)

"Split Cherry Tree" by Jesse Stuart (pp. 44-52)

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe (pp. 58-63)

"Before the End of Summer" by Grant Moss, Jr. (pp. 65-76)

"A Mild Attack of Locusts" by Doris Lessing (pp. 78-83)

"War" by Jack London (pp. 99-103)

"A Summer's Reading" by Bernard Malamud (pp. 112-117)

"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry (pp. 126-130)

"The Balek Scales" by Heinrich Boll, translated by Leila Vennewitz (pp. 132-137)

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (pp. 140-145)

"The Fifty-First Dragon" by Heywood Broun (pp. 148-154)