Short Stories in the Classroom Author:Carole L. Hamilton (Editor), Peter Kratzke (Editor) The twenty-five collected essays describe how teachers use favorite short stories. Although the teaching strategies are as diverse as the stories themselves, the essays are coherently organized to trace students' first personal connections to a story, to their growing facility with narrative structure and perception of varied cultural contex... more »t, to a refined and discriminating sense of taste. Both new and veteran teachers of literature will find these essays provocative and, more importantly, useful.
Shared weight : Tim O'Brien's "The things they carried" / Susanne Rubenstein --
Being people together : Toni Cade Bambara's "Raymond's run" / Janet Ellen Kaufman --
Destruct to instruct : "teaching" Graham Greene's "The destructors" / Sara R. Joranko --
Zora Neale Hurston's "How it feels to be colored me" : a writing and self-discovery process / Judy L. Isaksen --
Forcing readers to read carefully : William Carlos Williams's "The use of force" / Charles E. May --
"Nothing much happens in this story" : teaching Sarah Orne Jewett's "A white heron" / Janet Gebhart Auten --
How did I break my students of one of their biggest bad habits as readers? It was easy : using Alice Walker's "How did I get away ..." / Kelly Chandler --
Reading between the lines of Gina Berriault's "The stone boy" / Carole L. Hamilton --
Led to condemn : discovering the narrative strategy of Herman Melville's "Bartleby the scrivener" / James Tackach --
One great way to read short stories : studying character deflection in Morley Callaghan's "All the years of her life" / Grant Tracey --
Stories about stories : teaching narrative using William Saroyan's "My grandmother Lucy tells a story without a beginning, a middle, or an end" / Brenda Dyer --
The story looks at itself : narration in Virginia Woolf's "An unwritten novel" / Tamara Grogan --
Structuralism and Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" / Linda L. Gill --
Creating independent analyzers of the short story with Rawlings's "A mother in Mannville" / Russell Shipp --
Plato's "Myth of the cave" and the pursuit of knowledge / Dennis Young --
Through Cinderella : four tools and the critique of high culture / Lawrence Pruyne --
Getting behind Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper" / Dianne Fallon --
Expanding the margins in American literature using Armistead Maupin's More tales of the city / Barbara Kaplan Bass --
Shuffling the race cards : Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" / E. Shelley Reid --
Readers, cultures, and "revolutionary" literature : teaching Toni Cade Bambara's "The lesson" / Jennifer Seibel Trainor --
Learning to listen to stories : Sherman Alexie's "Witnesses, secret and not" / Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez --
"Sometimes, bad is bad" : teaching Theodore Dreiser's "Typhoon" and the American literary canon / Peter Kratzke --
Teaching flawed fiction : "The most dangerous game" / Tom Hansen --
Reading Louise Erdrich's "American horse" / Pat Onion --
Opening the door to understanding Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" / Richard E. Mezo« less