16. “The Pedestrian” Reading Check Quiz
Answer each question with concise and accurate responses.
Who is the protagonist of the story?
What is the protagonist’s job?
What is the protagonist doing in the story?
Who or what does he meet during the course of the story?
What is odd about who or what he meets?
Where is the protagonist at the end of the story?

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18. Literary Focus
Setting and Mood
Notice how the setting creates a mood of foreboding – a feeling that something is wrong. Words like “dark windows”, “graveyard”, “gray phantoms”, and “tomblike” suggest ruin and death.
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20. Page 11

21. Reading Focus
Cause and Effect
Here, we learn the cause of the buckling sidewalk: No one has walked on these streets for ten years.
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23. Literary Focus
Plot
The conflict is introduced. Leonard Mead is stopped by the police on his nighttime walk.
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25. Reading Focus
Making Predictions
When you read that the police officer has a metallic voice, you might predict that the inhabitants of the car are not human. When the voice says that writing is not a profession, you might predict that this society does not respect artists.
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26. Literary Focus
Setting
The setting becomes more ominous. The houses are tombs; the people are like the dead.
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30. Reading Focus
Making Predictions
This description of the back of the car as a prison leads us to predict that Mead is in big trouble.
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33. Literary Focus
Setting and Mood
The repeated use of the word “empty” ends the story with a mood of horror.
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34. BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH
Bradbury often uses futuristic settings to comment on the way we live today. What aspects of modern life might he criticize?
How does knowing about the life of an author add to a reader’s understanding of a text?

40. How important are the settings in a story?
What important events occur at the various settings?
How do the settings help to create the mood of the story?

41. Literary Response “The Pedestrian”
Read the text carefully and note the way the author uses the setting and conflict to reveal details about the characters.
How does Bradbury use setting and conflict in the story to build suspense and create a specific mood?
Defend your thoughts and ideas and use several pieces of evidence from the text to support your response.

42. Literary Response Planning Stage
List the important details about the setting
List the important details about the conflict
List the important details about the protagonist
Select the details that will best help you to share your own conclusions and judgments about the text.

43. Annotations Specific Setting
Page #
Important Event
Reason the Event was SIGNIFICANT
Specific Setting
Provide a phrase that describes the setting
Include an illustration 10 11 12 13 14
What role does the setting play in depicting the mood of the story?
Annotations
*Focuses on the important literary elements and skills

44. Literary Terms

45. Define each literary term
Define each literary term. Rephrase, paraphrase, and use your own words to simplify the meaning.
Identify an event in the story that illustrates or shows each literary term in “The Sniper”. List each event next to the literary term. *Use three events for the “rising action”
Locate an image to depict your visualization of each event. Insert the image into your story map next to the event and literary term.
Select an excerpt from the text that matches each event. Be sure to use significant details as your examples.

46. Dictionary definition of the literary term
Identified event from the text
Image to visualize the event
Direct quote or excerpt from the text

47. Dictionary definition of the literary term
Identified event from the text
Image to visualize the event

48. Literary Response “The Pedestrian”
Read the text carefully and note the way the author uses the setting and conflict to reveal details about the characters.
How does Bradbury use setting and conflict in the story to build suspense and create a specific mood?
Defend your thoughts and ideas and use several pieces of evidence from the text to support your response.

49. Planning Your Response
How does Bradbury use setting and conflict in the story to build suspense and create a specific mood?
Examine the question carefully and think about how you can best respond to each section.
*List the details from the text that you would use in your answer.
How many paragraphs would you use to express your ideas in an organized response?
*List the paragraphs and state what would be the main idea or purpose/function of EACH paragraph.
Select a couple of DIRECT QUOTES to use as TEXTUAL EVIDENCE to support your claims.
*Copy the quotes exactly as they appear in the text and include the page number where each can be found.

50. SETTING
EVENT
CONFLICT