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Below you will find the best short stories for high school across multiple genres: horror stories, mystery stories, humorous stories, classic stories, and more. Each story includes a link (READ IT) that will take you to a free copy you can read, copy, download or print.
Here are a list of words to describe anger to help you figure out at what point you feel each way on your thermometer on; NOT all of these words will relate to you as they are just examples.
British Swear Words. Although British English is quite sophisticated, sometimes even they can’t resist saying bloody hell or rubbish. In the following lines, you’ll find a list of curse words British people tend to use. Bell/Bellend. This word translates to ‘the end of the penis.’
These scary words are what you need when you’re looking to terrify, frighten, or torture your reader or listener. Comb through this list of scary words and choose the ones that upset, petrify, horrify, or rattle you the most.
Explain or elicit from students that sometimes talking about the biased words directed towards us helps us to feel better or heal (heal means to make or become better) and that may have happened with some of the students in the video. We will talk about words that help and heal later in the lesson. Defining terms
- Beelzebub. (This post may have afilliate links. Please see my full disclosure) Meaning. Beelzebub is a name derived from the biblical text, associated with the devil or a high-ranking demon.
- Pandemonium. Meaning. Pandemonium is a term coined by John Milton in Paradise Lost, depicting the capital of Hell. In broader usage, it means “utter chaos” or “wild disorder.”
- Diabolical. Meaning. Diabolical originates from the Greek “diabolos,” meaning “slanderer” or “accuser.” In modern usage, it’s used to describe something devilish or wicked.
- Necromancy. Meaning. Necromancy is the practice of communicating with the dead, often to predict the future or harness their power. It’s considered a dark art and often linked to demonic forces.
- General Hummel in The Rock
- Colonel Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds
- Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
- Gordon Gekko in Wall Street
- Roy Batty in Blade Runner
- Satan in The Devil's Advocate
- Bill The Butcher in Gangs of New York
- Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men
- The Joker in The Dark Knight
- Lorne Malvo in Fargo
"Twenty of those men were left to rot outside Baghdad after the conflict ended. No benefits were paid to their families. No medals conferred. These men died for their country and they weren't even given a goddamn military burial. This situation is unacceptable." General Hummel isn't a terrorist. And while his "evil" intentions are defined through t...
Landa's monologue offers us a haunting look into the utter evil of the Nazi mindset. He goes on about rats, questioning the farmer on why there is such instant disdain for the rodent. The farmer mentions the fact that rats spread diseases, which is why one would be disgusted by them. However, Landa points out that a squirrel could very well spread ...
"I’ve seen horrors, horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that, but you have no right to judge me." Kurtz is giving Willard the reasoning behind his actions. We as an audience see behind his madness. But we also see the horror of war and what it can do to man. Kurt...
"Greed, for lack of a better term, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed in all of its forms. Greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind." Gordon Gekko's speech to stockholders of a company he is about to dissolve ma...
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die." Batty is seen throughout most of the story as a powerful and ruthless replicant that will let no man stand in his...
"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch...
"You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear." It's difficul...
"You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want ...
"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair!" We never understood the man behind the makeup — The Joker. At least not on television or cinematically. Until this film. A supervillain is usually nothing more than an evil character that...
"Your problem is you spent your whole life thinking there are rules. There aren't. We used to be gorillas." This monologue is a short but compelling observation about what it takes to survive in this world. And in his eyes, what it takes is to step up and be not just a man, but an ape — drawing from our most primal instincts to survive. Malvo is of...
