Happy December Friends!

This month we will study literary devices and themes through short stories.

You will demonstrate understanding of the following literary devices in a quiz, in composing short stories, and in a reading project:

Alliteration

Allusion

Characterization

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Imagery

Irony

Metaphor

Mood

Sentence length variety

Simile

Theme

You will be tracking these devices in the following stories:

The Tell Tale Heart

The Monkey's Paw

The Monsters are due on Maple Street

The Landlady

The Taste of Melon

The Kid Nobody Could Handle

Priscilla and the Wimps

The Christmas Truce

The Gift of the Magi 

3. Important Due Dates

Dec. 20 Green Tracker and One Pager