Teaching with 50 Great Short Stories

A set of reproducible lessons especially created to accompany the popular anthology of classic short stories. Among the 50 stories are de Maupassant's "Looking Back," Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," Hemingway's "The Three-Day Blow," and Jackson's "The Lottery." Each lesson offers a vocabulary list, an objective-answer quiz that checks reading comprehension, and a writing assignment that encourages analytical thinking. A thematic table of contents groups the stories according to such topics as life choices, relationships, social status/class, the family, and personal conflict. Answer key.