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"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

 

Freshman Short Stories Unit

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The Freshman short stories are for the most part taken from the Masconomet High School freshman year text book Elements of Literature: Third Course published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Austin, 1997.

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Vocabulary for the Short Stories

"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell

"The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Vennuti