STORIES WITHOUT END

One of the challenges as an English teacher is to get students to engage with literature. So the stories in this collection venture a bit outside the box, with topics designed to get them thinking in new ways, and challenge their assumptions about gender roles, relationships, the meaning of success, and even reality itself. What if we could teleport anywhere in the world whenever we wanted to? Will robots ever replace human teachers? Why are some people optimists while others are pessimists? Where does our personality come from? Students will be driven to engage with the stories, whether they agree or disagree with some of the views in them. This collection is also focused on also involving students with the creative process with projects following each story. These projects get ,students to connect to the stories through writing and discussion. Students will find themselves writing about one particular character, drawing a scene from the story, interviewing people about the theme of the story, or keeping a dream journal. And, as the title suggests, all the stories in this collection are left open-ended to help students engage directly with literature by writing their own ending. ,Each story begins with a Before You Read section that preteaches some ,vocabulary and presents discussion questions to get students thinking ,about the topic of the story. The stories themselves come in two formats. Appropriately, the two levels ,of length and difficulty are also meant to help achieve slightly different ,learning goals