1. Answer the following prompt in at least one paragraph containing five to seven complete sentences. What was your favorite book/assignment from last year? Why? What was your least favorite? Why?

2. Your Journals should all be kept together. You will turn in all Short Story Journals at the same time when we complete the unit. Each Journal Entry should be no less than one paragraph in length. What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction? Which do you personally prefer and why?

3. Your Journals should all be kept together. You will turn in all Short Story Journals at the same time when we complete the unit. Each Journal Entry should be no less than one paragraph in length. What are DEDs? How do they differ from annotations? Have you had to do either before? Which do you prefer?

4. Your Journals should all be kept together. You will turn in all Short Story Journals at the same time when we complete the unit. Each Journal Entry should be no less than one paragraph in length. What do you know about short stories? What stories do you remember from when you were a child?

5. You have read the original version of The Monkey’s Paw, and you have been shown The Simpson’s adaptation of the short story. Identify the similarities and differences between the two in two paragraphs (one for similarities and one for differences).

6. Your Journals should all be kept together. You will turn in all Short Story Journals at the same time when we complete the unit. Each Journal Entry should be no less than one paragraph in length. What is a dystopia? How does it differ from a utopia? Can you think of any examples of a dystopia from something you have seen or read recently?

7. You are going to have a quiz on “The Possibility of Evil.” Create FOUR QUESTIONS you think might be on the quiz. You MUST also provide the ANSWERS. (You do not need to write this in paragraph form.)

8. Your Journals should all be kept together. You will turn in all Short Story Journals at the same time when we complete the unit. Each Journal Entry should be no less than one paragraph in length. If someone were to look through your pocket, purse, or book bag, what would they be able to figure out about you? What things would they never be able to guess?

9. You are going to have a quiz on “The Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket.” Create FIVE QUESTIONS you think might be on the quiz. You MUST also provide the ANSWERS. (You do not need to write this in paragraph form.)

10. What does it mean when something says “based on a true story?” What examples do you know of stories or movies that have this tag line?

11. Your Journals should all be kept together. You will turn in all Short Story Journals at the same time when we complete the unit. Each Journal Entry should be no less than one paragraph in length. What would the world be like if everyone was the same? Is it possible to make everyone the same?

12. What differences did you notice between the story (“Harrison Bergeron”) and the film (2081)? Why do you think the directors of the film choose to change the story in these ways? (If you were not here to view the video answer the following: Vonnegut is warning our society about our future. What evidence do you see in today’s society that would make this future possible or impossible.)