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Short Story for Freshmen
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Lyn Hawks Aug. 30, 2009.
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Agreed on Cisneros. I personally also love "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and I think reading only the first paragraph with students and asking them to predict the ending could be very interesting. In fact, you could take several long short stories such…
How about Sandra Cisneros' short story "Eleven"? Students usually have strong reactions to Rachel's situation and can look at her classroom and readily identify how they want their classroom to be different. You can even have students brainstorm rol…
Hey Kimberly,
I'm not sure if you guys use this book somewhere else in the curriculum, but the "My Name" passage from House on Mango Street is a good short piece for the kids to analyze writing and they can write in her style (or not) to talk about…
Does anyone have any good suggestions for short stories to assign to high school freshmen? Anything that would work well as a first day assignment would be great -- something that they might enjoy reading and will generate interesting discussion on…
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