Short stories in the classroom Book

	Foreword: What Is a Short Story, and How Do We Teach It?	xi
I.	Making It Personal	1
1.	Shared Weight: Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"	5
2.	Being People Together: Toni Cade Bambara's "Raymond's Run"	10
3.	Destruct to Instruct: "Teaching" Graham Greene's "The Destructors"	18
4.	Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me": A Writing and Self-Discovery Process	22
II.	Seeing What Is Really There	31
5.	Forcing Readers to Read Carefully: William Carlos Williams's "The Use of Force"	33
6.	"Nothing Much Happens in This Story": Teaching Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron"	42
7.	How Did I Break My Students of One of Their Biggest Bad Habits as Readers? It Was Easy: Using Alice Walker's "How Did I Get Away ..."	48
8.	Reading between the Lines of Gina Berriault's "The Stone Boy"	54
9.	Led to Condemn: Discovering the Narrative Strategy of Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"	59
III.	Perceiving the Story's Underlying Structure	65
10.	One Great Way to Read Short Stories: Studying Character Deflection in Morley Callaghan's "All the Years of Her Life"	67
11.	Stories about Stories: Teaching Narrative Using William Saroyan's "My Grandmother Lucy Tells a Story without a Beginning, a Middle, or an End"	72
12.	The Story Looks at Itself: Narration in Virginia Woolf's "An Unwritten Novel"	78
13.	Structuralism and Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever"	85
IV.	Encountering Other Perspectives	95
14.	Creating Independent Analyzers of the Short Story with Rawlings's "A Mother in Mannville"	97
15.	Plato's "Myth of the Cave" and the Pursuit of Knowledge	108
16.	Through Cinderella: Four Tools and the Critique of High Culture	113
17.	Getting behind Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"	118
V.	Discerning the Story's Cultural Perspective	127
18.	Expanding the Margins in American Literature Using Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City	131
19.	Shuffling the Race Cards: Toni Morrison's "Recitatif"	139
20.	Readers, Cultures, and "Revolutionary" Literature: Teaching Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson"	145
21.	Learning to Listen to Stories: Sherman Alexie's "Witnesses, Secret and Not"	153
VI.	Refining Taste	163
22.	"Sometimes, Bad Is Bad": Teaching Theodore Dreiser's "Typhoon" and the American Literary Canon	167
23.	Teaching Flawed Fiction: "The Most Dangerous Game"	172
24.	Reading Louise Erdrich's "American Horse"	179
25.	Opening the Door to Understanding Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"	185
	Afterword: Writing by the Flash of the Firefly	191
	A Bibliographic Postscript	195
	Index	197
	Editors	203
	Contributors	205