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A Sound of Thunder Lesson Plan with Graphic Organizers

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Previewing A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury: students predict the plot, then fill in a K-W-L chart with a sample entry
Pre-reading hook before students open the story
Pre-reading vocabulary: students define and use annihilate, expendable, paradox, delirium, resilient and remit in sentences
Front-load tricky words from the Bradbury story
Vocabulary revoke, primeval, subliminal, then Questions For Thought: students explain setting, the election and Deutscher
Finish word work, then start the during-reading questions
Comprehension questions 5-11: students explain the path, Travis's warning about changing the past and predict what happens
Pause-and-answer checkpoint midway through the time-travel hunt
Story questions 12-17: students explain why Eckels leaves the path and the butterfly's effect; Literary Focus on setting
Wrap-up discussion after finishing the story
Literary terms: students define rising action, climax and characterization, then write on theme in Critical Thinking
Extended written response or exit task on theme
Attributes
Subject

ELA, Reading

Grades

Grade 9, 10, 11, 12

Types

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File

Multiple File Types

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About This Product

This resource will give you everything you need to complete a full, comprehensive reading lesson plan for A Sound of Thunder text by Ray Bradbury. Files are offered as PDFs and Word documents.


Included:

-A Sound of Thunder Lesson Plan

-A Sound of Thunder Worksheet

-A Sound of Thunder Answer Key

Graphic Organizers:

  1. Author’s Purpose

  2. Characterization Chart

  3. Figurative Language Chart

  4. Historical Analysis Chart

  5. Imagery Chart

  6. Peer Evaluation Sheet

  7. Plot Diagram

  8. Read for Detail

  9. Setting

  10. Style Chart

  11. Symbol Chart

  12. Symbolism Chart

  13. Theme Diagram

  14. Tone and Mood Diagram

  15. Universal Plot Diagram

  16. Venn Diagram

PowerPoints:

  1. Characterization

  2. Imagery, Voice, and Persona

  3. Irony and Ambiguity

  4. Narrator and Voice

  5. Plot Structure

  6. Symbolism and Allegory

  7. Theme - How to Interpret

  8. Theme


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What's Included

1 zip file with:

-8 PowerPoints

-19 PDFs with ready to print pages

-18 Word documents with ready to print pages

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