Exploring Short Stories

 Volume 1: years 7-10

 Volume 2: years 10-12

   ed Peter Adams

Exploring Short Stories provides 20 photocopiable short stories for junior to middle secondary students in Volume 1 and 18 short stories for middle to senior secondary students in Volume 2.

Each story is accompanied by notes on the authors, the stories, the themes and the writing,  with practical ideas for teachers, and copiable activities and exercises for students

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CONTENTS     Exploring Short Stories: Vol. 1

INTRODUCTION

SEQUENCING

The Smart Dog by Dal Stivens

PREDICTING THE ENDING

I Used To Live Here Once by Jean Rhys

The Norfolk Island Pine Tree by Brian Matthews

ARTICULATING THE THEMES

The Star Beast by Nicholas Stuart Gray

INTERTEXTUALITY

Who Dares Wins by N. M. Cooper

Noah And The Flood King James Version of The Bible

The Windows Of Heaven by John Brunner

UNRELIABLE NARRATORS

I Fooled You, Didn't I? by Michael Edom (aged 13)

Jupiter Duke, Brigadier General by Ambrose Bierce

A SHIFT OF PERSPECTIVE

Space Fantasies by Amy Burroughs

Just Right? by Steven Langsford

Nescience by Jim Finkemeyer (aged 16)

A Timeless Observation by Heath Manners (aged 18)

A TWIST IN THE TALE

Conscience In Art by O. Henry

The Specimen by Ray Mason (aged 16)

INDETERMINATE ENDINGS

In The Garden by Petrina Smith

The Fly-Paper by Elizabeth Taylor

PARALLEL NARRATION

Tiger In The Snow by Daniel Wynn Barber

SAME BUT DIFFERENT

The Loaded Dog by Henry Lawson

Moon-Face by Jack London

Bibliography

CONTENTS     Exploring Short Stories: Vol. 2

 INTRODUCTION

 I. SOME NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES

             Intertexuality

                        ‘Homecoming’ by Roger Woddis

                        ‘The Empty Beach’ by James R. Allen

                        ‘The Demon Lover’ by Elizabeth Bowen

             Fictional Autobiography

                        ‘Bad Characters’ by Jean Stafford

                        ‘An Ounce of Cure’ by Alice Munro

             Circularity

                        ‘Homework’ by Farrukh Dhondy

             Unreliable narrators

                        ‘My Sister’s Marriage’ by Cynthia Marshall Rich  

                        ‘Why I Live at the P.O.’ by Eudora Welty

             Inderminacy

                        ‘One’s A Heifer’ by Sinclair Ross

                        ‘The Summer People’ by Shirley Jackson

 II. IDEOLOGIES, DISCOURSES AND THE POSITIONING OF THE READER

                        ‘Out of the Mouths of Babes’ by Kathryn Clarke (aged 15)

                        ‘Kay Petman’s Coloured Pencils by Carmel Bird

 III. SATIRE

                        ‘Attila’ by Karel Capek

                        ‘Spring in Poland’ by Slawomir Mrozek

                        ‘Sex in Australia from a Man’s Point of View’ by Michael Wilding

 IV. THREE FABLES: ARTICULATING THE THEMES

                        ‘The Man at the Wall’ by John Morressy

                        ‘Seven Floors’ by Dino Buzzati

                        ‘Before the Law’ by Franz Kafka

 BIBLIOGRAPHY