Short+Stories

=Station C:=

"Click-Clack the Rattlebag" by Neil Gaiman
Watch Neil Gaiman reading his story: media type="custom" key="28808250"

Here is the text of the story if you want to follow along: [|Online exclusive: A new short story by Neil Gaiman]

Using the Story Sequence Chart, chart the story, "Click-Clack the Rattlebag."

**Also, diagram the weekly sentence. We will check it at the end of class.**

Find out more about [|Neil Gaiman], who is one of Mrs. Williams' favorite authors.

=Station D:=

"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Watch this video of Vincent Price performing the story: media type="custom" key="28808224"

Journal 43: Scariest Story Write a paragraph about which of the stories we read so far was the scariest or most suspenseful. Use details from the story to explain why. Does watching a video version or listening to someone read it help make a story scarier or less scary? Explain why.

Find out more about [|Edgar Allan Poe]. Text of the story: [|"The Tell-Tale Heart"] Here is the fantastic recording we listened to in class, narrated by Matthew Gray Gubler: media type="custom" key="27936667" Here is a cool [|animated version].

"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
Find out more about [|Roald Dahl]. Here is the text of the story: [|"The Landlady"] You can listen to the story here: media type="custom" key="27939497" Complete the Comparison/Contrast Guide, giving details that are the same and different from the text of the story and the //Alfred Hitchcock Presents// episode that we watched. [|Book and Movie Comparison/Contrast Guide]

[|Five Elements of a Story] Video