AP Literature Short Stories and Poems Needed!

[NickAdams]

Thanks, it sounds really good. I may go out and read it now. :]

You can read it online:
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jatill/...cularRuins.htm

[Quinnathalas]

Sweet, thank you. :]

[JBI]

How about The Secret Life of Walter Mitty for imagination vs. Reality? It can be read here, and is rather short.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/6821/thurber.html

[bounty]

I am currently planning the curriculum for next year's lit class as a final project. I am desperately in need of short stories and poems to relate to the themes I have selected. I need at least one short story and three poems for each unit.

What I have thus far:
Unit One
Characterization and Plot Developed Through a Journey
The Poisonwood Bible
The Things They Carried
Huckleberry Finn
Jane Eyre
Unit Two
Revenge
Frankenstein
Hamlet
Macbeth
Unit Three
Non-Conformity
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Catcher In The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
1984
Unit Four
Imagined Vs. Reality
A Farewell To Arms
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Don Quixote


I will be eternally grateful to those willing to help. Fell free to also suggest more books that seem well suited for the themes.

oh my goodness--for "revenge"--though i might be bending the definition a bit---the lady or the tiger.

[birdgerhl]

So far I've thought:

Unit One
Characterization and Plot Developed Through a Journey

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' - Coleridge

Unit Two
Revenge

‘Revenge’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Unit Three
Non-Conformity

‘Bartleby the Scrivener’ and/or ‘Benito Cereno’- Melville

Unit Four
Imagined Vs. Reality

'The Turn of the Screw' - James (not sure is quite short enough to count as a short story, but I thought I'd suggest it nonetheless).

I hope they are of some use, I'll add more if/when I think of them.

[birdgerhl]

Oo and for Unit One you could use 'The Journey of the Magi' by Eliot.

[slobone]

Journey -- Maupassant, Boule de Suif (don't know what the English title is).

Revenge -- Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

Non-conformity -- Melville, Billy Budd
or Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Imagined vs. Reality -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

[NickAdams]

'The Turn of the Screw' - James (not sure is quite short enough to count as a short story, but I thought I'd suggest it nonetheless).

It's a novella.

Revenge -- Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

Good one.

[birdgerhl]

Journey -- Maupassant, Boule de Suif (don't know what the English title is).

I think it's just the same. That's the only way I've ever seen it written anyway, the only difference being that the name of the collection changes to 'Boule de Suif and Other Stories of the War' as opposed to 'Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre'

[JCamilo]

For more Borges,
Vengence there is Death and Compass and Two kings and the Labirinty. The Alleph may be in the reality vs. imagined. If it is long enough, Bioy Casares Invention of Morel deals with that as well.

[bethps]

What about Poe's "The Amontillado" for revenge?