Description
This bundle of AP Lit Short Story Lessons prepares AP English Literature ® and other advanced literature students for prose analysis. Based on the Short Fiction I standards in the new AP Lit CED, this resource includes six lessons. Each lesson breaks down the important skills and strategies needed for prose analysis through slideshow notes, then offers a chance to practice on a short story (less than 5 pages). Each lesson ends in a paragraph assessment, styled after the AP Lit paragraph responses in the new CED, and based on another short story (longer than 5 pages).
In total, this bundle includes excerpts of 35 short stories and asks students to read an additional 12 (found online) stories for guided practice. These lessons align with the free videos available on AP Daily and even include note sheets for students to use when watching the videos. I highly recommend introducing each lesson using those videos.
In preparation for online learning, each lesson has also been converted to interactive Google Slides for use in Google Classroom. The lesson comes with fillable text boxes for student work, plus instructions on how to make copies and use the resource on digital platforms.
⭐ What’s covered in this AP Lit Short Story Boot Camp Bundle:
In detail, this unit targets the following skills:
1.A – How textual details reveal a character
- How characters reveal themselves
- Perspective
- Motivation
- Focused text analysis: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor and “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros
- Sample paragraph analysis of “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
2.A – How textual details reveal a setting
- Setting of story
- Context of setting
- Focused text analysis: “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
3.A –How plot orders events in a narrative
- Rising and Falling Action
- Archetypal Strategies
- Foreshadowing
- Focused Text Analysis: “Charles” by Shirley Jackson and “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off” by Nadine Gordimer
3.B – The function of a particular sequence of events in a plot
- Exposition
- Narrative Structures
- Narrative Pacing
- Focused Text Analysis: “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl and “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
4.A – Identify and describe the narrator or speaker of a text
- The narrative relationship
- Speaker not necessarily the author
- Biased/Unreliable narrators
- Focused Text Analysis: “EPICAC” by Kurt Vonnegut and “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell
4.B – Identify and explain the function of point of view in a narrative.
- Narrator & Narrative distance – definition
- First person narration
- Third-person narration – limited
- Third person narration – omniscient
- Focused Text Analysis: “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
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