Dubliners
Fifteen stories present working-class people in turn-of-the-century Dublin. The unified artistic collection emphasizes grim realities: human limitations, unfulfilled longings, societal paralysis, disappointments, and insights. The texts emphasize traps that prevent fulfillment and self-actualization. Dubliners challenges us to choose life, not to succumb to pettiness and moral paralysis.
About the Series:
Novel/Drama curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with plot summary, background, and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These study guides encourage the development of thinking, reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Price: $19.95
Literary Form
British Short Stories
Student Activities
Students analyze individual stories and synthesize recurring themes and motifs. They also apply tools of fiction; discover epiphanies; examine plot, character, point of view, setting, and stylistic devices; and consider aspects of James Joyce’s literary style and his use of the grotesque.
Supplementary materials include culminating activities and quizzes with answer keys.
Ethical Values
- Compassion
- Courage
- Endurance
- Integrity
- Loyalty
- Responsibility
- Truth
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