Curated OER
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
After reading the short story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, give your readers this two-page packet to assess their reading comprehension. These are not your typical recall questions-instead, readers focus on the climax, types of...
Curated OER
"The False Gems" by Guy de Maupassant
Readers must go beyond the surface level of Guy de Maupassant's story, "The False Gems," to answer the questions on this activity. They must draw inferences, evaluate character's actions, and analyze how irony and symbolism give depth to...
K20 LEARN
Exploring Conflict And Theme: Engaging With "The Necklace"
Teach young scholars how to determine the theme of a story, an insight the author wants to share with readers, with a lesson that uses Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" as an anchor text. Learners examine the internal and external...
Curated OER
Close Reading of “The Necklace”
Designed for teachers, this 12-page packet uses passages from Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" to model how to design activities that encourage close reading of complex text.
Curated OER
"The Necklace" and "Cinderella"
Tenth graders complete literature analysis activities using Guy de Maupassants "The Necklace" and the Grimm Brothers "Cinderella." In this literature analysis lesson, 10th graders discuss the life and career of Guy de Maupassant and...
Curated OER
An Exploratory Approach to the Teaching of French in the Middle School
Middle schoolers review the most recent vocabulary list of French words. Using literature by Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant, they discover the history and culture of France. Using a map and the text, they locate the cities and...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Unit 5: Realms of Gold - Vol. 2 Poetry and Short Stories Teacher Guide
Seventh graders have a golden opportunity to learn how to read poems and short stories with a unit that introduces them to the techniques writers use to craft their works. They examine poems by William Carlos Williams and Edgar Allen Poe...
K20 LEARN
Identity: Characterization/Character Traits
"Who am I?" Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace," Julio Naboa Polanco's poem "Identity," and a clip from a Jason Bourne film provide learners with a context to consider the traits that makeup identity. Scholars create a...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Local Color in the Late 19th Century
Kate Chopin's The Awakening introduces readers not only to the lush Louisiana setting of Grand isle but also to the nuances of Creole culture. the second lesson in a three-part series examines how Chopin's use of literary realism and...
Japan Society
The “I” Novels in the Context of Early 20th-Century Japan
Although this lesson plan covers the rather obscure topic of the Japanese "I-novel", it also includes a great deal of historical information and material for an in-depth discussion of universal literary concepts. Specifically, young...
McGraw Hill
Proofreading a Paragraph
In this proofreading instructional activity, students rewrite a paragraph to correct for errors. Each paragraph may contain errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant [Pdf]
This is a PDF of a 10-question worksheet for "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant [Pdf]
This is a six page PDF of the short story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. Read to find out what happened to the borrowed diamond necklace.
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Guy De Maupassant (1850 1893)
This site offers full French editions of the following of Maupassant's works: Contes de la becasse (1883) Bel Ami (1885) Boule de suif (1880) Le Horla (1887) Les Contes du jour et de la nuit (1885) - Le vieux La maison Tellier - Une...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Guy De Maupassant
This site features the author Guy de Maupassant including a biography, the full text of three novels, and 175 short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Boule De Suif" by Guy De Maupassant
This is the text of the short story "Boule de Suif" by Guy de Maupassant. The story is set in the Franco-Prussian War and follows a group of French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussian army. The 10 travelers sharing the...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Alexandre" by Guy De Maupassant
This is the text of the short story "Alexandre" by Guy de Maupassant, a story of the relationship between servant and master.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Beggar" by Guy De Maupassant
This is the text of the short story "The Beggar" by Guy de Maupassant, a ghost story.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Bertha" by Guy De Maupassant
This is the text of the short story "Bertha" by Guy de Maupassant. Dr. Bonnet relates the tragic story of Bertha, a mentally deficient woman whom he worked with to establish some degree of cognitive understanding.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse" by Guy De Maupassant
This is the text of the short story "Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse" by Guy de Maupassant, one of his tales of death short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Blind Man" by Guy De Maupassant
This is the text of the short story "The Blind Man" by Guy de Maupassant, a short piece that examines the experience of the blind man and the severe treatment he experienced at the hands of his family and the community.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Book: "Abandoned" by Guy De Maupassant
This site features the full text of the short story "Abandoned" by Guy de Maupassant.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Book: "The Accursed Bread" by Guy De Maupassant
This site features the full text of the short story "The Accursed Bread" by Guy de Maupassant.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Book: "The Adopted Son" by Guy De Maupassant
This site features the full text of the short story "The Adopted Son" by Guy de Maupassant.