Short Stories

 

Students will research two short stories, Guy De Maupassant's The Necklace and O'Henry's The Gift of the Magi.


Biographical Information

 

O'Henry

The Literature Network

The Free Library

A Brief Chronology

  Guy De Maupassant

The Literature Network

Catalog

To search the Library Catalog, click on the icon at left, click the power search tab, type your keyword into one of the search boxes, change "type" to the kind of information you are searching for, click GO.


Print Resources

Guy De Maupassant -

Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (Volume 83, pp. 154-235

O'Henry aka William Sydney Porter -

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Volumes 1, 19)

Short Story Criticism (Volume 5)

Non Print Resources

 

 

The Gift of the Magi by O' Henry

O'Henry Museum

The Gift of the Magi text by Project Gutenberg

If His Life Were a Short Story, Who'd Ever

Believe It?

O'Henry Lesson Plans from Web English Teacher

The O'Henry Page Literary Criticism

The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant

Notes for The Necklace

Study notes for The Necklace

Online Databases

Pinpoint Use Pinpoint (at left) to search for more information. Select Horn High School. Select Literature (or other specific category) under Type of Information. Do an Advanced Search (for example: use as your search terms - The Necklace {the title of the short story or novel}and Guy de Maupassant {the author's name}). This will give you specific results.

Web sites

Nettrekker To search NetTrekker , click on the icon to the left, and then click on "Differentiated Instruction". Type your search term in the "Keyword" box or look through the subjects listed. Notice there are specific features available: Famous Person Search, Timeline, Image Search, Reference Tools (such as dictionary, thesaurus, citation help, calculators, atlases, and more).

 

Internet resources available to assist students with class assignments and research projects.

Resource Guides Citation Machine