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World of Short Stories: 18 Short Stories from Around the World (Part Of The Longman Literature For College Readers Series), A 1/e
Yvonne Collioud Sisko
Published June 2003 by Longman
Copyright 2004, 384 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-321-12738-2
List Price:
$29.20
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Summary

Key Benefit. The World of the Short Story introduces a selection of short stories from around the globe into the developmental reading course. With an outstanding selection of authors and carefully designed apparatus, the book is the ideal vehicle for introducing literature to developing readers. Key Features: Organized around different literary elements, such as plot, theme, and character, the selections in the text are surrounded by pedagogy including vocabulary exercises, pre–reading questions, comprehension quizzes, and writing prompts. Market:Anyone interested in a collection of short stories from around the globe.

Features

  • Eighteen short stories by such famous authors as Chopin, O. Henry, Tolstoy, Conan Doyle, de Maupassant, Achebe, and Lim.
  • The stories are arranged by literary elements: characters and conflicts, plot, irony, and so forth. Two alternative tables of contents are provided: one geographical and one by intent/tone.
  • A sample lesson at the beginning of the text introduces reading skills, note-taking skills, and commonly used literary terms (carefully defined with the developing reader in mind). The sample lesson also uses a very short story (“Ripe Figs,” by Kate Chopin) to illustrate the book's pedagogy (see next point).
  • Each story includes the following features: (1) pre-reading contextual vocabulary exercises, (2) pre-reading word attack exercises, (3) pre-reading questions, (4) biographical headnote, (5) journal entry worksheet asking students to identify the key elements of the story, such as main and supporting characters, setting, plot, and symbols, (6) follow-up questions, which test how well students have understood the story, (7) discussion questions, and (8) writing prompts for further writing.
  • A full glossary of literary terms related to the short story is provided at the end of the text.
Table of Contents

Each chapter follows the format of Chapter 1 below.

Intent and/or Tone Contents.


Geographical Contents.


Foreword.


Preface.


Ripe Figs: A Sample Lesson.


Kate Chopin, Ripe Figs.


1. Characters and Conflicts.

Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour.

Pre-reading Vocabulary—Context.

Pre-reading Vocabulary—Word Attack.

Pre-reading Questions.

“The Story of an Hour.”

Journal.

Follow-up Questions.

Discussion Questions.

Writing.

Hwang Sunwon, Cranes.

Migene Gonzalez-Wippler, Yoruba.

Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, Jovita.



2. Setting and Props.

Roch Carrier, The Hockey Sweater.

Patricia Grace, It Used to Be Green Once.

Jialin Peng, What's in a Name?

Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado.



3. Plot and Foreshadowing.

R. K. Narayan, Trail of the Green Blazer.

Grace Ogot, The Rain Came.

R. Sarif Easmon, Bindeh's Gift.

Chinua Achebe, The Madman.

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band.



4. Irony.

Catherine Lim, Ah Bah's Money.

Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace.

Juan Bosch, The Beautiful Soul of Don Damian.

O. Henry, The Ransom of Red Chief.

Leo Tolstoy, God Sees the Truth, But Waits.



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