Collected together in Sixteen Short Stories are these classics of the genre:
Ambrose Bierce’s An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Willa Cather’s The Enchanted Bluff
Anton Chekhov’s The Bet
Stephen Crane’s The Blue Hotel
William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s My Kinsman, Major Molineaux
Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers
Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat
Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle
Rudyard Kipling’s The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
Jack London’s To Build a Fire
Katherine Mansfield’s The Fly
Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat
Leo Tolstoy’s God Sees the Truth, But Waits
Edith Wharton’s Afterward
Each classic in our series
outlines an interpretive method to improve close reading, a process that shows students how to develop commentary beyond the plot, strategies used by top performing students on national exams.
guides students to examine key details as they read each page of the text with questions regarding key literary elements: setting, character, tone, atmosphere, point of view, plot, and dialogue
identifies significant passages throughout the text that develop key thematic patterns-providing sample prompts that appear on standardized exams.
provides footnotes for historical and literary context.
provides samples of annotated pages for plot and fort heme.
includes a glossary of challenging vocabulary.
ABOUT THE SERIES EDITOR
Michael Degen, Ph.D., has been teaching A P English for over thirty years, primarily at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. He has served as a College Board consultant and workshop presenter nationally and throughout Texas, where he has provided instructional guidance to over 50 school districts. He is the author of Crafting Expository Argument, Prospero’s Magic, and Virginia Woolf: A Contribution to the Essay Form. His most recent book is co-authored with his former student and colleague lan Berry- The English Coach’s Instructional Playbook: Teaching Strategies Informed by Neuroscience, Athletics, and Psychology.
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