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Stories About Modern Media
If we are being honest, most students interact more with modern media than with literature.
Feb 132 min read
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Short Story Adaptations
Creating a short film used to be a long and difficult process, so I gave up on it. But then it became much easier to shoot and edit video.
Feb 16, 20232 min read
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Teaching Media Literacy With Short Stories
It’s not easy to find literature that gets students to talk about the world they live in. It can be done with any novel ...
Jan 11, 20233 min read
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Teaching Narrative Mode with Short Stories
Narrative mode is what makes fiction different from essays, history, and art forms like video and images. Without fiction ...
Dec 31, 20213 min read
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The Magic of Storytelling: Real and Fictional
I recently listened to the podcast “The Story of Your Life” on Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam. I felt like I was listening to ...
Mar 29, 20212 min read
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Magical Realism: Interpretation and Creation
Magical realism goes beyond the place that a metaphor takes us. It goes beyond the realm of comparison.
Feb 19, 20213 min read
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Teaching Very Short Stories or Flash Fiction
If your students struggle to finish a novel, this unit is perfect for you. The stories are from Short: An International Anthology of...
Feb 13, 20213 min read
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Why Short Fiction?
This is the magic of fiction. Depending on the story, the author must pick and choose what facts and thoughts the audience will know and not
Apr 20, 20204 min read
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The Imaginary Reality of Technology and Fiction
More and more, the screen determines who we are, and not our relationships with real people.
Oct 30, 20194 min read
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