mom31257 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Would you all be willing to help me compose a list of short stories that would be great to include over the next few years? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 This site has a good list: http://www.classicshorts.com/bib.html I would want to include some O Henry stuff for sure. Kipling has some really good reads (the one about the leopard!), Bierce's A Horseman in the Sky, Jack London, O'Keefe's Death Makes a Comeback and Dylan Thomas's a Child's Christmas in Wales. Oh - and something by Wells too - The Time Machine is really good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Oooh, posting just to hang on to the link to these great lists. I really like short stories for teaching. I don't really like reading them all that much, LOL, but I do like to use them for teaching! Some of my favorites for this age group: The Ransom of Red Chief - O Henry almost anything by Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Admontillado, The Telltale Heart, the Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat Wells - The Country of the Blind Hawthorne - The birthmark, Rappacini's daughter, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Kipling - The Cat that Walked by Himself Saki - Tobermory, The Open Window The Monkey's Paw - WW Jacobs Why I Live at the PO - Eudora Welty All of the Sherlock Holmes short stories! The Bottle Imp - RL Stevenson The Lady or the Tiger and of course . . . The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Those are the ones, off the top of my head, that I'd use for a middle schooler. Can't wait to check out the other lists people posted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Here is a link to some of the ones my high schoolers have read this yr. I have a different take on some of the ones in my link and others suggested. I wouldn't recommend them for all middle schoolers. I know my 6th grader could not handle the content of stories like The Lottery. The idea that they would stone even a baby to death for some unknown tradition would be too much for her. It really disturbed my 9th grader for the entire day after we read it. Same with Poe. (Not the disturbing my 9th grader, just too much for my 6th grader.) Fwiw, The Necklace and Gift of the Magi are not dark like many of the others. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/499657-short-stories/?do=findComment&comment=5397336 My kids did have a great discussion comparing/contrasting The Lottery to Hunger Games,though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Just wanted to mention I love all of these posts, but I maxed out my "like" ability today. So many interesting posts this morning, on so many interesting topics. And I love this thread in particular. Really cool. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Governess Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 The great books foundation has some good collections that include short stories: http://www.greatbooks.org/programs-for-all-ages/junior/jgbseries/grades-6-8/roundtable-reading-list/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Library Momma Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Absolutely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildiris Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I just read All Summer in a Day with my fourth graders. By far one of my favorites of all time. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I just read All Summer in a Day with my fourth graders. By far one of my favorites of all time. :) We read it this past fall for science (we read relevant stories from the Holt Anthology of Science Fiction), and then we watched the movie on YouTube (I remember the movie from when I was in school). It was the first time I ever saw my daughter cry over something she watched. :001_wub: Aside: Keith Coogan played the male lead. I had forgotten all about him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 We read it this past fall for science (we read relevant stories from the Holt Anthology of Science Fiction), and then we watched the movie on YouTube (I remember the movie from when I was in school). It was the first time I ever saw my daughter cry over something she watched. :001_wub: Aside: Keith Coogan played the male lead. I had forgotten all about him! I've taught it when I was teaching middle school. But we read it with our co-op just a couple weeks ago and then watched the movie, which I had never seen - what a weird but also awesome little movie. I was worried I did it too early, but I have an extremely vivid memory of reading it as a child - probably in fourth grade. And I didn't even remember the title - or that Bradbury was the author - and had to refind it as an adult. It was so perfect not only for the message, but also for the metaphors and the language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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