SHORT STORIES TO WRITE FOR SCHOOL GENERATOR
SHORT STORIES TO WRITE FOR SCHOOL UPDATE

Stephen Crane’s “ The Blue Hotel” - Don’t you hate it when you accuse someone of wrong doing, hire a private investigator, spread lies on the Internet, causing him or her to commit suicide? In “The Blue Hotel,” the roles are reversed.

SHORT STORIES TO WRITE FOR SCHOOL UPDATE

Saki’s “ The Interlopers” - Don’t you hate it when clan leaders sign a peace treaty and get eaten by wolves before they tell anyone else? The “Interlopers” makes for good creative writing lesson plans: (1) rewrite the ending (2) imitate the story’s style with a modern day update (3) write about how the story would be different if cell phones had been invented.

If you’ve never read “Trifles” with your class, let me change your mind with this “Trifles” review (Note to male readers: never strangle your wife’s bird). Chauvinistic men don’t learn the mistake of overlooking seemingly unimportant Trifles.

Susan Glaspell’s “ Trifles” - Yes, I know it’s not a short story.

For sports fans, look up statistical anamolies in sports: Villanova’s shooting percentage in the 1985 NCAA championship game, the Orlando Magic’s 3-point shooting percentage in the 2009 Eastern Conference NBA Finals, the odds of David Tyree catching a pass with one hand against his helmet in the 2008 Super Bowl, or me finishing first in the 2008 Gran Pheelasco Sprint Triathlon in Boulder City, NV. Explain what the odds are of flipping a coin x number of times and coming up with the correct answer each time. Examine statistical anamolies to teach just how ridiculous this victory was.

SHORT STORIES TO WRITE FOR SCHOOL GENERATOR

It’s like the time you got a ‘B’ on your physics test after studying for hours and Donny Dumbbutt got an ‘A’ using a random number generator on the multiple choice and matching sections. Isaac Asimov’s “ The Machine that Won the War” - The ultimate in situational irony as Earth defeats a technologically advanced alien civilization by using the simplest machine ever created – a coin.Here’s a good “Story of an Hour” lesson plan. The Department of Homeland Security frowns on such activity, so I continued my life as before.

After reading “Story of an Hour,” I started feeling paranoid and plotted to derail a train I was supposed to be on in order to test my wife. All this takes place in an hour (you may have figured that out from the title). Then her husband’s alive, which kills her.

Kate Chopin’s “ Story of an Hour” - First her husband’s dead, which makes her sad but happy.

It works a lot better than the time I got so enthralled with teaching irony in literature that I stayed up all night writing irony lesson plans, all of which had the same purpose: to convince students that everything in life is ironic (except for things in that song by Alanis Morissette, which is ironic).Īfter not sleeping for three days and accidentally stapling my hand to a bulletin board, I decided the best way to teach irony in literature is to use the following short stories. Of all the lesson plans I’ve tried, this one works best. Before reading these short stories for teaching irony in literature, you may want to review what irony is.

Short stories to write for school