Nine Stories Lesson Plan

Write Your Own Short Story

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to practice create writing skills and discuss what makes a successful short story

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

Structure:

What makes this collection of short stories so successful? Come up with a list of potential qualities as a class. Examples might include: succinctness; clear descriptions; arresting images; surprise endings; epiphanies and reversals; narration; stories within stories; and so on. Spend about 15 minutes on this discussion, using concrete examples from the text, and tell students to take notes.

Then, tell students that they will write their...