I collected the compositions today. Good luck! I'm looking forward to reading them.
Choose one of the following stories to present to the class. Do a careful reading of the story looking for tone, point of view, motifs, syntax, etc. Choose 3 or 4 passages which you feel are vital to teach the class, i.e. some key aspects of the story which we wouldn't understand on a first read.Also, present key points about the author, the time period, and any cool anecdotes which you dig up, i.e. Shirley Jackson's story was published in The New Yorker magazine in 1948 and it received more letters from readers than any other story the magazine has ever published. Why?
Be sure to research your author, the time in which the story was written, and determine what mode of fiction is used i.e. psychological realism, social realism, or magic realism. You can search these terms on line.
"A Worn Path" Eurdora Welty
"The Lottery" Shirley Jackson
"The Chrysanthemums" John Steinbeck
"Araby" James Joyce
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Horse Dealer's Daughter" D.H. Lawrence
