Week 6: Literature dossier: short stories

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

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This week: 

Literature dossier! 

We will have a look at some short stories 

Let's check your homework

What is a short story?

What is a short story? 

A short story is any story between 1,000 and 10,000 words.

A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

So like a tiny book 

Typical short story stuff: 

Lower word count

Less character development

Less world-building

Fewer subplots than longer works

Different marketability

Roald Dahl

Charles Dickens 

Stephen King

Virginia Woolf

Edgar Allan Poe

Get started on: 

Reading matters on pages 152 and 153

(story is on pages 154 & 155)

Welcome! Let's get started

Today

Continue with the short story stuff 

We will read some and do exercises 

Short stories have age audiences as well 

Kids -> Fairy tales, stories about morals and behaviour

Teens -> Somewhere in between (as usual..), coming of age has a very important place here

Adults -> A lot of different themes and genres such as love, death, illness, 

The boy who cried wolf

Edgar Allan Poe (40)

Edgar wrote in the gothic style, horror was 

his main genre

He married when he was 27 and his wife was

13, she died 11 years later. 

Edgar became depressed and died not long

after. 

Apples & trees 

For the literature dossier

You are going to answer a few questions. 

The questions + their answer must be put in your literature dossier. 

Make a new subchapter called: Short stories 

The questions: 

Q1: Explain in your own words, what is a short story? 

Q2: What is typical for a short story? (Name 3 things) 

Q3: Name 3 short story writers and 2 of the stories they wrote

Q4: Imagine being a short story writer, where would you get your inspiration? 

Q5: If you would read a short story: what genre would it have to be and why?