Short Stories
This is an online collection of the assignments for the Short Stories unit. After completion of the work you will earn 1 credit .
Please do all of the work for one story before starting the next story.There are fourteen stories plus a final
assignment.
Independent Short Story Checklist
1. Grover Dill
□Vocabulary words
□Read story
□Questions
□Essay
2. Ray Gun
□Read and underline
□Five paragraph essay
□Test: one essay question
3. The Wife’s Story
□Read the story
□Questions
□Essay
4. The Speckled Band
□Questions
□Essay (question #12)
□Test essay question
5. The Fifty-first Dragon
□Theme?
□Vocabulary
□Questions
□Essay Test
6. By the Waters of Babylon
□Look for items in the painting, Guernica
□Questions
□Test is one essay question
7. The Rule of Names
□Vocabulary
□Who, What, & Where?
□Questions
□Test: Write a Letter
8. A Death in the House
□Vocabulary
□Read
□Questions
□Test Essay
9. The Most Dangerous Game
□Vocabulary
□Read and answer questions
□Test Essay Question
10. The Telltale Heart
□ Research “The Evil Eye”
□Vocabulary
□Read
□Test Essay Question
11. A Rose for Emily
□Read both Introduction and Story
□Page 516 Literary Analysis
□Page 516 Timeline of story
□Page 527 “Vocabulary in Action”
□ Answer the Questions
□ Test Answer the two questions
12. Teenage Wasteland
□ Read Story
□ Write a series of diary entries
□Questions
□Test: Essay Questions
13. Walter Mitty
□Read story
□Graphic Organizer
□Fill out “Words to Own”
□Questions
□ Test: Write another chapter
14. Hostage Read Story
□ List Bruno’s Actions
□Questions
□Essay Questions
□No test
15. Final Assignment
□Essay
Please do all of the work for one story before starting the next story.There are fourteen stories plus a final
assignment.
Independent Short Story Checklist
1. Grover Dill
□Vocabulary words
□Read story
□Questions
□Essay
2. Ray Gun
□Read and underline
□Five paragraph essay
□Test: one essay question
3. The Wife’s Story
□Read the story
□Questions
□Essay
4. The Speckled Band
□Questions
□Essay (question #12)
□Test essay question
5. The Fifty-first Dragon
□Theme?
□Vocabulary
□Questions
□Essay Test
6. By the Waters of Babylon
□Look for items in the painting, Guernica
□Questions
□Test is one essay question
7. The Rule of Names
□Vocabulary
□Who, What, & Where?
□Questions
□Test: Write a Letter
8. A Death in the House
□Vocabulary
□Read
□Questions
□Test Essay
9. The Most Dangerous Game
□Vocabulary
□Read and answer questions
□Test Essay Question
10. The Telltale Heart
□ Research “The Evil Eye”
□Vocabulary
□Read
□Test Essay Question
11. A Rose for Emily
□Read both Introduction and Story
□Page 516 Literary Analysis
□Page 516 Timeline of story
□Page 527 “Vocabulary in Action”
□ Answer the Questions
□ Test Answer the two questions
12. Teenage Wasteland
□ Read Story
□ Write a series of diary entries
□Questions
□Test: Essay Questions
13. Walter Mitty
□Read story
□Graphic Organizer
□Fill out “Words to Own”
□Questions
□ Test: Write another chapter
14. Hostage Read Story
□ List Bruno’s Actions
□Questions
□Essay Questions
□No test
15. Final Assignment
□Essay