Annotations THE VELDT READ THE PASSAGE Make notes

Annotations “THE VELDT”

READ THE PASSAGE � 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

CIRCLE � Any words that may be unfamiliar

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

HIGHLIGHT YELLOW � Any literary uses of the sense of SOUND

HIGHLIGHT PINK � Any literary uses of the sense of SMELL

HIGHLIGHT GREEN � Any literary uses of the sense of TOUCH

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

STAR � Figurative language � Strong IMAGERY � Metaphors � Similes � Personification � Be sure to label which device is used!

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

UNDERLINE ORANGE � Any words with NEGATIVE CONNOTATION

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

REVIEW! 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 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 this short story?

UNDERLINE PURPLE OR BLUE �A quote that relates to theme of the story.