Writing Tutorials: Short Story Writing video

Use online video to study the development of the short story as a form of literature. Use the video subtitles to improve Reading and Literacy skills .... simultaneously!

Use these Literature and Writing Tutorials videos entitled Short Story Writing to study the development of the short story as a form of literature and analyze the elements of short fiction.

Use our 4 online educational videos to trace the development of the short story as a form of literature and learn how ballads, fables, fairy tales, and epic poems gave birth to this unique form of writing. Analyze some of literature's classic short stories: Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and Katherine Mansfield's "The Doll's House."

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the historical development of the short story, beginning with the literary traditions of the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China, and continuing with the storytelling traditions of medieval Europeans and the Eskimos.
• Survey the tradition of oral storytelling and examine the short story as a literary form.
• Explain the cultural significance of fables, ballads, romances, myths, legends, folktales, and epic poems, and discuss their role as precursors to the short story.
• Analyze the elements of the short story, using excerpts and summaries from works by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Katherine Mansfield that show character development, setting, mood, plot, conflict, theme, point of view, and the author's writing style.
• Gain insight to the creative writing process, using an actual student's story as a model.

• Literature > The Writing Series > Short Story Writing
• Oral Storytelling An Ancient Tradition (Runtime: 16:48)
• The Short Story as a Literary Form (Runtime: 18:16)
• The Short Story as an Ever-changing Form (Runtime: 19:06)
• Analysing and Writing the Short Story (Runtime: 16:22)