Independent Reading, Term 1, Short Stories
You have a minimum of four (4) short stories to find and read on your own. You CANNOT use the four (4) stories we're doing as a class. You also need to use crafted short stories - this is a genre in and of itself - it's different than fables or fairy tales or nursery rhymes or myths or legends or children's stories. So you cannot use those. This is a minimum. Read as many more as you like.
This is the evaluation rubric. Here is Sauve's example.
Here are some recommended stories:
From the anthology Sudden Flash Youth edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman, published by Persea Books, 2012:
Here are some useful websites for you to find stories on your own:
This is the evaluation rubric. Here is Sauve's example.
Here are some recommended stories:
- "The Dead Boy at your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
- "Pine" by Zane Andrew
- "The Cabin" by Phil Town
- "Snow White Adopted" by J.D. Edwin
- "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From the anthology Sudden Flash Youth edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman, published by Persea Books, 2012:
- "Half Sleep" by Matt Krampitz
- "History" by Beth Alvarado
- "The Flowers" by Alice Walker
- "Between Practice and Perfection" by Azizat Danmole
Here are some useful websites for you to find stories on your own:
- CommonLit
- Absurdist fiction
- The New Yorker online
- Commaful.com
- Flash fiction online
- Smoke Long Quarterly, an online magazine
ALL four (4) Forms are due by Oct. 25th 5:00pm. No late marks deducted, but they cannot be submitted after Oct. 25th 5:00pm, as an extra 7 days has been allotted to submit any late work. Resubmissions will be due Nov. 15 by 5:00pm.
- #1. Sept. 27 Sign into Teams. Click on View Assignment. Copy and Paste into the Form and click submit.
- #2. Oct. 4
- #3. Oct. 12
- #4. Oct. 18