By some accounts, the short story is a big old star facing the end of its life… Kaboom! Let’s harness the energy released during the short story’s explosive supernova death to create new stars— new 21 st century versions and generations of the traditional short story. By some accounts, the short story is a big old star facing the end of its life… Kaboom! Let’s harness the energy released during the short story’s explosive supernova death to create new stars— new 21 st century versions and generations of the traditional short story.

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“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents–he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. […] In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre- established design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of him who contemplates it with a kindred art, a sense of the fullest satisfaction.” - Edgar Allan Poe

By some accounts, the short story is a big old star facing the end of its life… Kaboom! Let’s harness the energy released during the short story’s explosive supernova death to create new stars— new 21 st century versions and generations of the traditional short story. By some accounts, the short story is a big old star facing the end of its life… Kaboom! Let’s harness the energy released during the short story’s explosive supernova death to create new stars— new 21 st century versions and generations of the traditional short story.

To differentiate instruction To teach and encourage “close reading” To provide an opportunity for using arts/media while developing literary skills To provide an opportunity for developing skills needed to do a group project To assess student ability to read, interpret, and analyze the short story

An adaptation that 1) retells assigned short story by combining the arts of group members and 2) does not rely heavily on written or spoken English. A written report that 1) communicates the group’s analysis and interpretation of plot, setting, character, theme of original story and 2) records creative process/artistic decisions group made in creating the adaptation A presentation

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