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This **comprehensive 30 page guide **can be used in a 7-8 week TY module to engage students in learning about the short story form.

It contains information on the elements of short stories, steps to analysing a story, learning aims, outcomes and objectives.

It also contains a glossary of useful key terms and definitions, and a personal reflections journal sheet.

The workbook has pre and post reading questions on 14 classic and modern short stories: 
My Oedipus Complex (Frank O’Connor)
The Whole Town is Sleeping (Ray Bradbury)
New Boy (Roddy Doyle)
The Sniper (Liam O’Flaherty)
Beware of the Dog (Roald Dahl)
The Moustache (Robert Cormier)
Death by Scrabble (Charlie Fish)
The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
A Good Man is Hard to Find (Flannery O’Connor)
The Monkey’s Paw (W.W. Jacobs)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (Joyce Carol Oates)
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
All Summer in a Day (Ray Bradbury)
The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)

The visually appealing guide also contains links to the original files (all stories can be found online using the hyperlinks in the guide) as well as links to audio files, animated and video files.

The stories are diverse in terms of genre (gothic and horror, psychological, historical fiction, humour and satire etc), but are unified in terms of some of their themes - human nature and morality, unexpected endings, suspense and tension, identity and personal struggles.

Finally, the guide contains a list of suggested ways that students can get their credits or marks at the end of the module.