Students will compare technical writing styles relevant to academic professional topics. Additionally, students will learn the difference between novels and short stories.

This online unit from Georgia Virtual Schools guides students step-by-step through a unit on short stories, including The Most Dangerous Game, The Cask of Amontillado, The Necklace, and Young Goodman Brown. Students work through 2-3 weeks worth of material over the course of the unit, which includes both formal and informal assessments.

In this lesson, students examine the importance of setting in Ray Bradbury's short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains." Students complete a chart that requires them to think critically about the setting of the story, which can be adapted to other texts, then continue their examination in a written piece.

In this short story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, students will learn how to communicate detailed, factual information in academic situations. Additionally, students will read the story and answer the included questions about the reading.

In this lesson, students complete a creative writing assignment to create a closing argument for a character from the short story of their choice that involves controversy. Students can choose to write in defense of the character or to prosecute them for what they did during the story.