Short
Stories
"Harrison Bergeron" | "Soft Rains" | "Pedestrian" | "Sound of Thunder" | "Searching for Summer" | "Waters of Babylon" | "Pit and Pendulum" | "Interlopers" | "Rainy River" | "Everyday Use" | "Thousand Dollars" | "Two Friends" | "Destructors"
"Harrison
Bergeron"
Read the story on page 20 of your McDougal Littell The Language of LIterature Grade 10 book.
Story
- Story and audio (Need Password) If you forgot your textbook, click here and read the story. You can also listen to the story while you follow along.
Worksheet
Vocab
Resources:
- 2081
-- Movie version of "Harrison Bergeron."
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Story
- Story and audio (Need Password) If you forgot your textbook, click here and read the story. You can also listen to the story while you follow along.
Worksheet
Vocab
Resources:
- Online Copy of Story -- The story is not in the public domain, so the link can become obsolete very quickly.
- Bradbury
on Fresh Air -- an
interview with Bradbury. He talks about his influences and education. - Computer House -- this an article about a house similar to the one in the story. Also look at Bill Gates's house.
Allusion:
- Quote from Story: "There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it
was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil
Baal
in a dark corner."
- Baal is the same as Beelzebub, who is an old pagan god that appears in the Old Testament. Search the Bible to see passages. His name translates into Lord of the Flies. He is also Satan's best friend in Milton's Paradise Lost (Book 1: line 75).
"The
Pedestrian" Story
Worksheet Papers/Project: Resources:
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"A
Sound of Thunder"
Vocab
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"Searching
for Summer"
"By the Waters of Babylon"
Read the story on page 43 of your McDougal Littell The Language of LIterature Grade 10 book.
- worksheet (pdf)
- worksheet (doc)
Resources:
- Story Online -- Read the story.
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
Read the story on page 559 of your McDougal Littell The Language of LIterature Grade 10 book.
- Worksheet
Resources:
top"The Interlopers"
Read the story on page 8 of your McDougal Littell The Language of LIterature Grade 10 book.
Story -- Click here to read the text of the story
Audio & story -- click here (You need the password).
Resources:
- "Saki's Use of Literary Devices" -- An analytical essay on the story.
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Read the story on page 627 of your McDougal Littell The Language of LIterature Grade 10 book.
- Worksheet
Resources:
Listen to Tim O'Brien's "The
Things They Carried." The
link is to WBEZ NPR's Stories
on Stage.- Listen to Tim O'Brien's "How
to Tell a True War Story." On
this audio, you need to fast forward you real audio player to the 20 minute
mark. The link is to WBEZ NPR's Stories
on Stage.
"Everday Use"
Read the story on page 504 of your McDougal Littell The Language of LIterature Grade 10 book.
- Worksheet
Resources:
top"One Thousand Dollars"
Read the story on page 388 of your McDougal Littell The Language of LIterature Grade 10 book.
- Worksheet
"Two Friends"
Read the story on page 546 of your McDougal Littell The Language of LIterature Grade 10 book.
- Worksheet
"The Destructors"
This story is not in our textbook.
- Online Story (Need Password)
- Worksheet
Resources:
- Graham Greene - Info on the Author and his works
- Compare themes from "Destructors" to Fight Club, Lord of the Flies, and Separate Peace.
