Short Stories - Must be taken concurrently with required grade level English course.

Short Stories
One Semester
One Credit

This course must be taken concurrently (during the same semester) as the required grade level English course.

Short Stories, a course based on the Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts, is a study of the distinct features of the short story, such as the tight focus of narrative fiction. The course may be organized by historical periods, themes, or authors. Students examine short stories with modernist and contemporary themes by a variety of authors from the perspective of audience, purpose, and historical development. Students analyze what distinguishes the short story genre from other literary genres, such as the novels, epics, romances, biographies, etc.