SHORT STORY UNIT Grade 8 Short Stories The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve http://www.emcp.com/product_catalog/school/litLink/Grade08/U0202medicinebag/selection.

php The Sea Devil by Arthur Gordon http://mrsgrubb.com/PDFfiles/The_Sea_Devil.pdf Borders by Thomas King http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/myoung/constitution/images/Thomas%20King%20Bord ers.pdf The Beau Catcher by Frederick Laing http://www.unz.org/Pub/Colliers-1944jul08-00062 Amigo Brothers by Piri Thomas https://docs.google.com/a/duxbury.k12.ma.us/document/d/1BYHg8kP1FsWuBy8 5mSYDwXUggS4zrRq30I6X8NvPp_o/edit The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury http://mikejmoran.typepad.com/files/pedestrian-by-bradbury-1.pdf The Cask of Amontialldo by Edgar Allen Poe http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Poe/Amontillado.pdf The Night the Bed Fell by James Thurber http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=the+night+the+bed+fell+p df&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty By James Thurber http://tuantran.org/teaching/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty.pdf The Monkeys Paw by W.W. Jacobs http://teacherweb.com/tx/walshmiddleschool/andrewortiz/monkeys-paw.pdf The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/digi506.pdf A Retrieved Reformation by OHenry http://correiamiddle.edlioschool.com/ourpages/auto/2008/3/7/1204906757637/ retrieved_reformation%20Short%20Story.pdf All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury http://staff.esuhsd.org/danielle/English%20Department%20LVillage/RT/Short%2 0Stories/All%20Summer%20in%20a%20Day.pdf The Evil Eye adapted by Amy Friedman http://www.uexpress.com/tellmeastory/?uc_full_date=19991031 The Dinner Party by Mona Gardner http://www.waupaca.k12.wi.us/ms_pie_documents/The%20Dinner%20Party%20 %20%20by%20Mona%20Gardner.pdf After 20 Years by OHenry http://faculty.tnstate.edu/lpowers/Short%20Story/ohenry.pdf Excerpt from Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury April 2000: The Third Expedition (scroll down) http://old.fantasy.ir/files/public/bradbury_ray__the_martian_chronicles.pdf

The Veldt by Ray Bradury http://www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/bradbury_veldt.pdf The Bet by Anton Chekov http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/1255/ A Days Wait by Ernest Hemingway http://mattlally.com/fiction/a_days_wait.pdf The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html The Sniper by Liam OFlaherty http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/sniper.html The Last Leaf by OHenry http://www.online-literature.com/donne/1303/ The Open Window by Saki http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/openwin.html The Three Skeleton Key by George Toudouze http://www.oneact.org/productions/ThreeSkeletonKey/ThreeSkeletonKey.pdf Through The Tunnel by Doris Lessing http://www.miguelmllop.com/stories/stories/throughthetunnel.pdf Excerpt from All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott Bad Influence by Judith Ortiz Cofer Dawn by Tim Wynne-Jones From Wood Song by Gary Paulsen The Tigers Heart by Jim Kjelgaard