For each of the four short stories you chose, complete the tasks below.
Enter your notes into the Textual Analysis Organizer for each story you chose. Identify which Essential Question you think best fits each of your chosen stories; use each Essential Question once. Each organizer has a cog for an Essential Question. Write a short analysis for each story’s organizer of how the elements of character, theme, symbols, setting, and/or
figurative devices are used within the text, exploring how each contributes to the story’s exploration of an Essential
Question. Explore a minimum of three elements.
To what degree can an individual’s choices and actions influence the direction of his or her life?
Why is it important to be responsible to others on a personal, local, global, and digital level?
What does it mean to be successful and what role does failure play?
How does an individual’s perspective of, and response to, a crisis define him or her?
