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For students, teachers and readers who want a broad first taste of American and British short fiction, with adventure, strong characters and choices about right and wrong.
Che cos’è questo libro
Short Stories for High Schools is a school anthology put together by the editor Rosa M. R. Mikels. It gathers short fiction by American and British writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Anthologies like this were made for classrooms, so that young readers could meet many authors and many kinds of story in one volume.
What you get is a quick tour of the short story at work. Some tales are built on adventure and danger, some on a single strong character, and some on a hard choice about right and wrong. Each one can be read in a sitting. Let us begin with the idea behind such a collection and why the short story suits a student reader so well.
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- 1A school anthology is a guided samplerFree
- 2Adventure tests what people are made of
- 3A few pages can build a whole person
- 4Moral courage is the thread through the tales
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A school anthology is a guided sampler
An anthology is a gathering of works chosen by an editor. In a school volume, the choice is made with young readers in mind. The editor looks for stories that are clear, lively and worth discussing in class.
That purpose shapes the book. Instead of one voice, you meet many. A reader moves from one writer's style to another's and starts to notice how each handles a setting, a speaker or a surprise.
This is why such a book works well as a first step. It does not ask for a long commitment. The next is only a few pages away, and it may open a whole author's work to you.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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What is Short Stories for High Schools about?
It is a school anthology of short fiction by American and British writers. The tales cover adventure, strong characters and questions of right and wrong, and they are arranged so that students can read them one at a time.
Who was Rosa M. R. Mikels?
She was an American educator and the editor of this collection. An editor chooses and arranges the stories, so the tales themselves were written by many different authors, while she shaped the book for classroom use.
Is this one story or many?
It is many. The book is a collection of separate short stories, each complete in itself, so you can read them in any order and stop after any tale without losing a thread.
Is it hard to read?
The book was made for school readers, and short stories are quick to finish. The plots are clear and easy to follow.
What themes do the stories share?
Common themes in such collections are courage, honesty, duty and the choices people make under pressure. Adventure often provides the setting, and character shows through what people do when a decision is hard.