My Creative Writing Class

[narfnitsirk]

As part of my teaching class for SHU I need to make a CV (curriculum vitae aka teaching resume), write an application letter to a place I might teach, and write a statement of teaching philosophy

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Short story list

[anonymous]

Just wanted to say I think your short story list is fantastic! Some of these are among my life-long favorites! I don't know "The Lesson," though, and I'm excited about going out now and finding it! Thanks!

Kathleen

The list

[anonymous]

Yeah, great list, Kristin. I've never read "The Rocking-Horse Winner", I'm ashamed to say, and I've never read "The Lesson". I'll read "The Rocking-Horse Winner" soon -- I know it's in a couple of anthologies on my shelves -- and I'll keep an eye out for "The Lesson".

The others are GREAT without exception. How I loved "To Build a Fire" and "The Most Dangerous Game" as a kid! What a shock "The Lottery" provided! What great endings the Bierce and O'Connor stories had (I often think of what the guy says about the old woman in the end of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find")! And "Harrison Bergeron" is truly one of my all-time favorites. I teach it with desperation every year to my seventh-graders, and seemingly without fail, our reading is interrupted by inane announcements over the P.A. system. "See?!" I want to shout. "See?! It's already happening!"

Re: The list

[anonymous]

J.D., true idiot, again.