The Elements of a Short Story

Welcome my dear students to another week of English excitement. Today we will have a lot of fun analyzing funny stories.

Let's start by watching this video to see what we are going to analyze:

Now let's complement this information by reading this WebPage:

Elements of a Short Story (hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/elements.html)

1. Please create a Post in your blog with the name: The Elements of a Story.

2. Now fill in the first two columns of the following chart.

Short Story Element	What is it?	Example

3. Listen and read this story:

4. Based on this story, fill in the third column of your chart (Point 2)

5. For the next class (Friday, February 15th) please read the following story:

You may Print it if you want to.

Vusi Makusi (http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/version_printable.pl?story_id=VusiMaku899.shtml)