Murakami Short Stories

Short stories are perfect for teaching.  They are impactful and dense and add great variety to the classroom.  Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s stories are an incredible blend of the surreal with the ordinary, and they offer many avenues of interpretation.  This unit profiles seven powerful stories from his collection, The Elephant Vanishes.  Great for the IO, Paper 2, and the HLE, this unit is sure to engage students. 

This literary unit includes:

• 9 complete lessons
• Background and context resources
• Activities and videos
• Formative and summative assessments
• Skill work essential for IB writing and speaking
• Sentence stems for oral support
• Selected passages and quotations for study
• Sample work (paragraphs and a full response)
• Paper 2 questions