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- Short
Stories
- Using the novel Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, students are introduced
to the elements of the short story.
- Teaching
Mysteries - Free lesson plans, ideas, and online mysteries to teach critical
thinking and reading comprehension
- You're
the Detective - This web site is about mystery. It contains two mysteries
that web viewers can solve and two story starters web viewers can finish and
submit. After web viewers submit them they will appear on the web page and
other web viewers can read a lot of different story endings.
- Writing
Mysteries and Suspense - If mystery or suspense is your genre or if you
just want to find out more about these genres, there is lots of helpful information
here.
- Tips
on Creating a Mystery
- There are a lot of elements to writing a mystery. These tips should help
students brainstorm! All the steps students will need to create a story full
of surprise and suspense. Read through them, and start making notes for your
mystery.
- Twenty
Rules for Writing Detective Stories - The detective story is a kind of
intellectual game. It is more — it is a sporting event. And for the
writing of detective stories there are very definite laws — unwritten,
perhaps, but none the less binding; and every respectable and self-respecting
concocter of literary mysteries lives up to them. Herewith, then, is a sort
Credo, based partly on the practice of all the great writers of detective
stories, and partly on the promptings of the honest author's inner conscience.
- What
is a Mystery Short Story? (And How Do You Write One?) - from Writingworld.com
comes this interview with Mississippi writer John Floyd who offers tips and
advice on writing mystery stories.
- Writing
a Mystery Story
- from the Academic Scholars Institute comes this set of links outlining how
to write a mystery story, the elements of a mystery story and links to other
web resources that will assist writers in writing mystery stories.
- Ghosts
and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers
- What is scary, and why does it fascinate us? How do writers and storytellers
scare us? This lesson plan invites students to answer these questions by exploring
their own scary stories and scary short stories and books. The lesson culminates
in a Fright Fair, where students share scary projects that they have created,
including posters, multimedia projects, and creative writing.
- Teaching
the Epic through Ghost Stories
- Our oral tradition of telling ghost stories, with which students are very
familiar, builds a useful bridge to the oral tradition of the ancient epic
narrators. In this lesson, students connect to epic storytellers by sharing
their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters.
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