Short Story Share Project/Teacher and Student Materials
To: DMS Student Enterprises
From: Mrs. North, CEO North Star Publishing Company
Re: Short Story Collection Series
Congratulations, you’ve been hired to produce teacher/student materials for use with North Star Publishing Company’s new 8th grade textbook series. Our company envisions a collection of information and resources for both teachers and students to use. We would like to post this information on our company website and also offer it in our textbook series. The goal is to give teachers and students everything they need to facilitate an in-depth study of short stories that are commonly read in 8th grade English classes. They are asking for the following items:
- summary of the story
- plot diagram with examples
- information about the setting with images
- biographical information about the author
- list of main characters with descriptions/important quotes
- vocabulary words and definition---5
- reading comprehension questions for the short story---3 levels (recall/fact, analysis /inference, synthesis)
- multimedia project assignments---2
- literary element focus questions---5 questions
- two non-fiction articles that concentrate on the same theme---3 questions per article
- chart or list of criteria to evaluate and make a judgment of the short story