Lesson Plans for Teachers & Educators
“The short stories are amazing — the lessons are very rigorous, which is fantastic.”
“Students are excited to be studying contemporary writers, and we found that being able to connect with writers who are “living” and accessible to be exciting and fun.”
FREE lesson plans for a variety of classrooms
We offer comprehensive lesson plans, each centered on a single Carve short story. Each short story is available to read online and select stories include an embedded audio version that can be streamed in the classroom or at home.
Lesson plans are designed to stimulate critical and creative thinking, and feature interactive prompts, discussion questions, and writing exercises. They are available in Microsoft Word format so you can immediately distribute or edit and adapt for your class.
Lesson plans are geared toward high school and college audiences. Some stories contain mature content. We encourage teachers to review the content warnings listed at the beginning of each lesson plan before deciding if the story is appropriate for their classroom audience.
» Download free lesson plans individually (.docx format) or in a bundle (.zip format):
Special thanks to Susanne Rubenstein, T.M. DeVos, Diane Moroff, and Nicole Pettee.