Develop empathy and personal responsibility with your junior high and high school students with the fiction short story: Dinner Plans. Marybel is a self-centered girl who is more worried about herself than her parents' anniversry dinner. Will Marybel learn how to care about others? Included materials: Fiction Short Story (Dinner Plans) and worksheets that correspond to the story for the following targets: pre-reading/reflection, analyzing the text, theme/text evidence, details, sequencing, criti