Maps and Mapmaking

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.03.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Unit Research
  3. Part One—Cartography
  4. Part Two—What are Short Short Stories?
  5. Part Three—Writing Cues & Craft Guide
  6. Lesson Plans
  7. Works Cited
  8. Other Teacher Resources
  9. Student Enrichment Resources
  10. Appendix A
  11. Appendix B

Mapping + Episodic Short Short Stories = Classroom Writing Success

Janelle A. Price

Published September 2007

Tools for this Unit:

Student Enrichment Resources

Howe, Irving, and Howe, Ilana Weiner. Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest

Stories. Godine: Boston, 1982.

Shapard, Robert, and Thomas, James. Sudden Fiction. Gibbs M. Smith: Layton,

1986.

Shapard, Robert, and Thomas, James. Sudden Fiction International: Sixth Short-Short

Stories. Norton: New York, 1989.

Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. New York: Penguin, 1995.

Tale of how "the longitude problem," which made sea travel precarious, was answered by John Harrison, a carpenter who built clocks.

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