Transcript The Veldt
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 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 this
short story?
UNDERLINE PURPLE OR BLUE
A quote that relates to the theme of the story.