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A Sound of Thunder

A Sound of Thunder . Ray Bradbury. Objectives. Understand and appreciate science fiction (Literary Analysis) (R3.0) Recognize foreshadowing (R. 3.6) Predicts events in a plot (Active Reading). Connect to Your Life.

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A Sound of Thunder

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  1. A Sound of Thunder Ray Bradbury

  2. Objectives • Understand and appreciate science fiction (Literary Analysis) (R3.0) • Recognize foreshadowing (R. 3.6) • Predicts events in a plot (Active Reading)

  3. Connect to Your Life • Time travel: If traveling through time were possible, what era would you most like to visit? Would you want to ravel back to the past or ahead into the future? Would you want to travel just a few dozen years, or would you travel hundreds, a thousand or even more years?

  4. Building Background • The Fourth Dimension • Time travel popular idea in science fiction • HG Wells The Time Machine • Suggested that there was a fourth dimension • Back to the Future

  5. Focus your Reading • Foreshadowing • Prepares reader for events and plot twists that will occur later in the story • Creates suspense (excitement or tension) • “Stay on the path”

  6. Focus Your Reading • Prediction • Involves using text clues to make a reasonable guess about what will happen in a story What Will Happen Next?

  7. Read Page 72-81 • Reading Comprehension Cheat Sheets! • Please choose page 83 Writing Option #1 or #2 or Activities & Explorations #2

  8. Homework • HW Comprehension Questions on page 82 # 1-7 • Page 83 Vocabulary In Action

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