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Review Short Story End of 9-weeks Assessment

Vocabulary Climax Rising Action Falling Action Exposition Resolution Look at the vocabulary for each of the following short stories: 1. A Visit to Grandmother’s 2. Content’s of the Dead Man’s Pocket 3. There Will Come Soft Rains

A Visit to Grandmother Why did Charles leave home? How does Charles feel about GL’s horse story? Examples of direct vs. indirect characterization Why does it upset Chig to see his Dad cry? How does Charles feel about his Mom? How do they describe GL? What is the moral of the story? VOCAB!!!

AVTG Vocabulary indulgencegrimacedmeager tracefraudengaging

Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket What causes Tom to panic? Why does Tom work so hard? What moments were suspenseful? How does Tom’s attitude about work and life change? Why is it important that Tom tells us the window is hard to open before he goes out onto the ledge? What are the contents of Tom’s pocket? Why is that important? VOCAB!!!

Vocabulary for COTDMP convoluteddeftnessimperceptibly interminablerevelingverified

There Will Come Soft Rains Where and when does the story take place? How do we find this out? What happens to the owners of the house? How do we find out? What are some of the things the house does? What is the poem about that the house reads? How is this ironic? Is anyone else in the house? Humans? Animals? How does the house “die”? VOCAB!!!

TMCSR Vocabulary FlutteredManipulatedOblivious ParanoiaTitanicTremulous

Tools Use you short story study guides. Pay special attention to the plot line. Study the vocabulary for each story. Make sure you know what the following terms mean: Inference Internal Conflict External Conflict Prediction

When is the test??? NEXT CLASS!!!! So be sure to study