SHORT STORY UNIT
Grade 8 Short Stories
“The Medicine Bag” by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
http://www.emcp.com/product_catalog/school/litLink/Grade08/U0202medicinebag/selection.php
“The Sea Devil” by Arthur Gordon
http://mrsgrubb.com/PDFfiles/The_Sea_Devil.pdf
“Borders” by Thomas King
http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/myoung/constitution/images/Thomas%20King%20Bord
ers.pdf
“The Beau Catcher” by Frederick Laing
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Colliers-1944jul08-00062
“Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas
https://docs.google.com/a/duxbury.k12.ma.us/document/d/1BYHg8kP1FsWuBy8
5mSYDwXUggS4zrRq30I6X8NvPp_o/edit
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
http://mikejmoran.typepad.com/files/pedestrian-by-bradbury-1.pdf
“The Cask of Amontialldo” by Edgar Allen Poe
http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Poe/Amontillado.pdf
“The Night the Bed Fell” by James Thurber
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=the+night+the+bed+fell+p
df&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” By James Thurber
http://tuantran.org/teaching/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty.pdf
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs
http://teacherweb.com/tx/walshmiddleschool/andrewortiz/monkeys-paw.pdf
“The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton
http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/digi506.pdf
“A Retrieved Reformation” by O’Henry
http://correiamiddle.edlioschool.com/ourpages/auto/2008/3/7/1204906757637/
retrieved_reformation%20Short%20Story.pdf
“All Summer in A Day” by Ray Bradbury
http://staff.esuhsd.org/danielle/English%20Department%20LVillage/RT/Short%2
0Stories/All%20Summer%20in%20a%20Day.pdf
“The Evil Eye” adapted by Amy Friedman
http://www.uexpress.com/tellmeastory/?uc_full_date=19991031
“The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner
http://www.waupaca.k12.wi.us/ms_pie_documents/The%20Dinner%20Party%20
%20%20by%20Mona%20Gardner.pdf
“After 20 Years” by O’Henry
http://faculty.tnstate.edu/lpowers/Short%20Story/ohenry.pdf
Excerpt from Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
April 2000: The Third Expedition (scroll down)
http://old.fantasy.ir/files/public/bradbury_ray__the_martian_chronicles.pdf
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradury
http://www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/bradbury_veldt.pdf
“The Bet” by Anton Chekov
http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/1255/
“A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway
http://mattlally.com/fiction/a_days_wait.pdf
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html
“The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/sniper.html
“The Last Leaf” by O’Henry
http://www.online-literature.com/donne/1303/
“The Open Window” by Saki
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/openwin.html
“The Three Skeleton Key” by George Toudouze
http://www.oneact.org/productions/ThreeSkeletonKey/ThreeSkeletonKey.pdf
“Through The Tunnel” by Doris Lessing
http://www.miguelmllop.com/stories/stories/throughthetunnel.pdf
Excerpt from All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott
“Bad Influence” by Judith Ortiz Cofer
“Dawn” by Tim Wynne-Jones
“From Wood Song” by Gary Paulsen
“The Tiger’s Heart” by Jim Kjelgaard