Reading Short Stories

When you make connections, you...

• Make conclusions

• Make an opinion

• Think of similarities between what is being described in the book and what you have experienced, heard, or read in the past

• Make an inference

• Make a prediction

Before you begin to read you might make ...

• an opinion

• an inference

• a prediction

• a conclusion

What was the short story "The All-American SLURP" about?

• A Chinese immigrant girl who was learning the American culture.

• A Japanese immigrant girl who was learning the American culture.

At the end of the short story "SLURP," the narrator learned that ...

• We all do the best we can when we are learning new customs.

• It's okay to have different cultures.

• All Americans slurp.

• All of the above.

A short story is...

• Works of fiction that are longer than short stories, but shorter than novels.

• Long works of Fiction (“Hunger Games”, Harry Potter”

• Brief works of fiction. Has characters, setting, and a plot.

Short stories are fictional.

• True

• False

Both novels and short stories contain the following:

• setting and characters

• plot and mood

• a theme

• all of the above

In the short story "Eleven," Rachel is ...

• a student that gets very sick in school.

• a student that gets very embarrassed in school by her teacher.

By the end of the short story "Eleven," we learn a new way of thinking about ...

• cats

• dogs

• food

• birthdays

In the short story "The Sand Castle" the future is ...

• scary

• beautiful