Literature - Short stories 3 (hv3a)

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Week 48: Lesson 1

Short Stories 3

Objective: You can understand the literary element "plot" and how to analyze this. You can read and listen to the short story.

• Review of the previous week
• The "plot" of a story
• Reading and listening to "Bullet in the Brain"
• Group discussions

What have we done last week? 

Elements in Literature:

• Characterization
• Themes & Conflicts
• Plot
• Irony & Symbolism

Plot

Reading: 

"Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff

Discuss the plot:

1) What was the rising action?

2) What was the climax od the story?

3) What was the falling action?

4) Was there a resolution?

Discussion Questions:

1) What does the opening of the story tell us about Anders? 

2) What does the memory of Anders represent?

3) What do you think the moral of the story is? (Theme)?

Short stories:

Lamb to the Slaughter

Bullet in the Brain

The Umbrella Man

To review the lesson objective: "You understand the literary element "plot" and how to analyze this. You can read and listen to the short story."
How do you think you did?

1. Could be better
2. Just okay
3. It went well
4. Fantastic