Annotations

 Make notes with your pencil on every one – two sentences. These can be brief and abbreviated. They should  Explain what is happening in the story  Question the narrator/events  Draw conclusions based on the characters or events  Relate back to something earlier in the story  Make predictions

 Any words that may be unfamiliar

 Go back into the passage and use the context to develop your own meaning (either denotative or connotative) for the unfamiliar words you circled.

 Any literary uses of the sense of SOUND

 Any literary uses of the sense of SMELL

 Any literary uses of the sense of TOUCH

 How are the author’s uses of sense important to the reader?

 Figurative language  Strong IMAGERY  Metaphors  Similes  Personification  Be sure to label which device is used!

 Choose one example of figurative language. Why did the author include this in his writing?

 Any words with NEGATIVE CONNOTATION

 Did you notice this many negative words when you first read the passage/story? How can these words set the mood for the reader?

1.) Describe the house and the nursery in “The Veldt” 2.) What is the main conflict of the story? 3.) Why do Wendy and Peter’s parents bring in a psychologist to look at the nursery? 4.) What is the problem of the relationship between parents and children? 5.) How does the story end? 6.) What is the theme of “The Veldt”? How is it universal? 7.)What is an allusion? Give an example from the story. 8.) What is the genre of thi s short story?

 A quote that relates to the theme of the story.