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This resource contains various speaking, listening, reading, and writing materials focused on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery". All resources can be modified to suit other texts. Contains resources such as: Question Stems for promoting student inquiry and conversation, graphic organizers, Activity Guide for "The Lottery", Comprehension Instructional Sequence template, and a rubric for a culminating Socratic Seminar activity. In this short story learning module, students will utilize the question stems and graphic organizers with several short stories in the module.

This resource provides survey questions for students to answer prior to reading Dystopian texts in order to establish their beliefs about technology before using a literary elements map to explore the role of fictional technology. In this short story module, students will complete these activities after the reading of "The Lottery" and before the reading of "Harrison Bergeron".

This resource is a free website that allows students to create their own comic strips. The site offers fun animal and human characters with different moods, thought and talk balloons to fill in with words, and story prompts. In this short story learning module, students will use the storyboard/comic strip to retell part of one of their favorite short stories in the module.

This resource links to various other resources that have school-appropriate Podcasts for all K-12 students. The Podcasts vary in genre from short fiction to in-depth journalism. In this short story ELA module, students will listen to a short science fiction story podcast to analyze as a non-traditional text.

This resource is an Open Access Textbook for teachers to utilize as a guide to teaching best writing practices online. In this short story module, the summative assessment is an essay on the impact of technology in our society. The teacher will utilize this resource, particularly the "Online Writing Labs" portion of this text, to help ensure writing instruction from a distance is effective.

This resource provides free interactive writing and grammar practice activities for K-12 students. Teachers can search for activities based on topic, grade level, and difficulty. Quill can easily be linked to Google Classroom for assigning activities to students. In this short story learning module, students will regularly use Quill assignments as homework to practice their grammar and writing skills.