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Thistledown's Teacher Resource Guides differ from our Student Response Guides. The Teacher Resource Guides have a much enriched approach to student response discussions and provide more formal cognitive exercises. A premium is placed on student opinion and imagination. As effective as they are, they were not created to be a replacement for or representation of the teacher's critical analysis of the work.

 


 

69 pages / paper

Short Story Anthology Guide

Middle Years

Opening Tricks Teacher Resource Guide
 

ISBN: 978-1-894345-02-6

Jesse Stothers

This guide offers teaching strategies for the content, themes and styles that evoke humour in story telling and the techniques of craft that allow humour to unfold. The guide was created in response to Thistledown’s third national competition for young adult short stories, including the two winning stories “The Trickster” by Jacqueline Pearce, and “Mom?!” by Diana C. Aspin.

 


The Opening Tricks Teacher Resource Guide intelligently address the writing styles of  stories by: Cheryl Archer, Karen Krossing, R.P. MacIntyre, Eric Nicol, Sharon Stewart, Beverley Brenna, Shelley A. Leedahl, Barry Mathias, Janice Scott, Jennifer Taylor, and Ed Yatscoff.

The guide is arranged as follows: the Overview section, which includes:

  • Teaching Focus;
  • Plot (Content);
  • Characterization;
  • Themes;
  • The Writer's Craft (Structure and Style);

the Questions section, divided into:

  • Speculations;
  • General Questions;
  • Other Activities

There is a series of Essay Questions and Research Probes to further develop students' writing, web, and library skills.

 

 

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