Victor begins his first day in seventh grade hoping to make Teresa his girlfriend. After a series of awkward run-ins with her, he attends his French class, where she is also enrolled. Bueller does not embarrass Victor, but instead his empathy leads to new understandings and confidence for Victor. Read this short story online here: Seventh Grade. Just looking over this list gets me excited about teaching short stories! Classroom-tested stories by acclaimed authors that middle school students will love.
I realize today students are being brainwashed by phones literally and need literacy to save them. Thanks for this great resource for sub teachers. Can any of these stories be printed for those students that do not have devices? To my knowledge, though I am not a copyright expert, teachers are allowed to copy one class set to be used for educational purposes.
I must say how much I appreciate this list being so diverse! It speaks volumes about your valuing good writing for the sake of what good writing offers! Hello, All Summer in a Day — one of my favorite short stories. I enjoyed this story so much when I was a kid that I study it nearly every year with my French High School pupils. Thanks for the list. I will read the stories and pick up ideas for my students. An express train passes by a cottage on the outskirts of a town for over a twenty year period.
This means a lot to the engineer. Read "The Far and the Near" 1, words. A young girl and her brother find a fish in a narrow well. She doesn't know how it got there, and she thinks about how it has been alone for so long. Read "The Trout". Judson and Mabel Webb are preparing to leave their mountain cottage for the winter to return to the city. When they left last winter, someone broke in and stole some of Judson's liquor.
He expects the thief to return, so he prepares a surprise. Read "Ruthless" 1, words. Outside, the woods lay in clear October sunlight: the autumn air was full of the sharp, exciting smell of moist, leaf-covered earth.
Inside, a man smiled grimly as he turned from the bathroom cabinet, entered the primitive living room of his mountain camp, and crossed to a closet set in the pine wall. Read "The Appointment in Samarra" words. Ivan is known in his village as a timid, fearful man. When he walks home at night he goes the long way around the cemetery, even though it's cold. One night he is challenged to cross the cemetery.
Read "Cemetery Path" words. Moved by childhood memories, a man leaves his own affluent neighborhood and goes exploring. He ends up in a seedy area. He can't blend in because he's driving a Mercedes. Read "Identities" 1, words.
Myop is a ten-year-old girl who is out exploring the woods behind her family's sharecropper cabin on a beautiful summer day. As she starts to head home she makes a shocking discovery.
Read "The Flowers" words. Rosaura has been invited to Luciana's birthday party. Rosaura's mother works as a maid for Luciana's mother. She doesn't like the idea of her daughter going to "a rich people's party. Read "The Stolen Party" 2, words. A family is living in their third apartment since the beginning of WWII.
It's late but they can't go to bed until they play the key game—the mother imitates the doorbell, the boy delays answering while pretending he is looking for the keys, and the father hides.
Read "The Key Game" words. The narrator tells us about her name—what it means in Spanish and English, its history in her family and whether it suits her. Read "My Name" words. In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, song like sobbing.
Boris is being led down a long hallway to the solitary confinement cell. He was caught in an escape attempt. He's terrified of his punishment and begs to be spared. He promises he'll never do anything wrong again. Read "The Escape". Ulrich is out patrolling his forest with a rifle. He's not hunting the usual game; he wants to catch his neighbor, Georg, poaching on his land. Their families have a long standing feud over the territory, going back to their grandfathers.
They hate each other intensely. Ulrich leaves his men on a hill and walks deeper into the growth. Read "The Interlopers".
A man completes a circuit that connects all the supercomputers of all the inhabited planets of the universe—all ninety-six billion of them. Read "Answer" words. Children are pestering their parent to tell them about the important things. When they get a bit older, the parents impart some advice, but the children aren't impressed with it. Read "Important Things" words. An English professor's father is enrolled in his class. He feels his father had been hard on him so he returns the favor by giving him a C.
Read "A Gentleman's C" words. Here are a few stories that middle school students might find funny. These short stories contain plenty of discussion points as well, and they are a great way to introduce different styles of writing.
Barbarita goes to the doctor so she can get her green card approved. Her friend Mima comes with her to translate. It doesn't go smoothly. Melpomenus is a clergyman who has trouble saying goodbye after visiting people. Before his vacation starts, he visits a couple for tea. He is persuaded to stay much longer than he wanted. Some people—not you nor I, because we are so awfully self-possessed—but some people, find great difficulty in saying good-bye when making a call or spending the evening.
As the moment draws near when the visitor feels that he is fairly entitled to go away he rises and says abruptly, "Well, I think I Surely it's early yet! Read "There Was Once" words. The narrator is the smartest kid in school. Last week, another student equaled him in Math. He's sure the boy cheated. The narrator traces the situation to Mr. Peppi, an ice-cream seller whom he has a rivalry with.
Here are some super short stories, with each one of them being under words. These flash fiction pieces are great, and they will provoke plenty of great thinking and talking points for readers. Short, but captivating, "Housewife" fills every word with drama, keeping you engrossed all the way until the end. Read "Housewife".
A foreigner in an embassy doesn't know that everyone keeps the windows shut when the Huntress is out. Read "The Huntress". This absurd story takes a seemingly innocuous pole and turns it into one father's tabula rasa. Read "Sticks". Read "The Outing". Visit Short Story Guide to find the right one. That's all I can think of right now. What individual readers consider disturbing is going to vary a great deal, so that's not a reliable standard to use for everyone.
However, different schools and teachers can use whatever standard for selecting stories that they want. I expect they'll use their judgment when choosing stories for different age groups. Short stories are one of the best ways to introduce students to new themes, units and ideas in an entertaining way. Seventh Grade follows the story of a young boy named Vincent on the first day of seventh grade. The author touches on many emotions children that age tend to have, including feelings of insecurity and being easily embarrassed.
It also deals students of different cultures and backgrounds struggling to fit in. The ideas of puppy love and affection are included too, with just the right amount of humor mixed in. Neil Gaiman is the author of the beloved books Coraline and Neverwhere. When a child asks for a bedtime story, what follows is a spooky and unexpected turn of events that keeps students entertained and turning the page.
This makes it perfect for middle schoolers, who are just the right age to benefit from this story. So what exactly does it mean? The story by Lesley Nneka Arimah explores the complex relationship between life and death, as well as what it means to live with grief. This is a wonderful story for middle school students because it addresses how people can deal with inevitable changes in life, such as when a loved one dies, through the lens of science fiction.
Especially after last week, you would never believe what happened. I was about to start locking up a few minutes before the full moon, when my grandma decided to pay me a visit.
Since she owned the little place I call home, she decided to let herself in with the spare set of keys she insisted on taking from me Everything was ready for the ritual. Kylie smashed up three slugs and Daniel stirred them together with the weird looking mushroom he found behind the tetherball court.
The book also called for salt, worms of the earth and the blood of the enemy. My heart pounding in my throat, I pulled the fire alarm. Its blasting siren filled my ears almost as quickly as terror washed over me. With tremulous breath and body, I slipped into the chaotic crowd of students and teachers that were hurrying towards the exits.
My brain swam and I hardly recognized the hands that patted me on the back as I walked. Ned searched frantically around the pool.
Maybe he could find enough change to buy an ice cream, at this point anything would help. He stole a quick glance back to where his best friend was sitting wrapped in a towel. Ned kept up his desperate search, wondering how things could have gone so wrong. Ned rose from his bed a li He was no angel because he acted like Sata No one cares. My dad had a tendency to move his hands empathetically when he was really trying to convince you of something.
Like a magician waving a wand, or a Jedi knight trying to convince you this aren't the droids you were looking for, his heart was always in the right place. It's too bad this hand-waving, fath Mrs Black hates Miss Grey. Everyone in the school knows about it. Mrs Black walked into our class and asked to borrow the stack of whiteboards. Miss Grey said no, she needed them.
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