Short Story Writing

Happy Monday,

Today we are going to start our short story writing.

Students are writing short stories.
Today they begin by planning their stories by filling out their own plot diagram. They will need to include this when they hand in their story.

Their story will need to include literary devices such as foreshadow, personification, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, idiom and irony.

Story Writing Starters:
https://mycuprunsover.ca/100-writing-prompts-story-starters/

Literary Devices (and definitions):
https://literary-devices.com/

See previous post for plot diagram example:
https://9192humanitiesernestmorrow.blogspot.com/2019/10/plot-diagrams.html

Stories are due on Thursday November 21st.
They need to  be handed in either in hard copy or shared with me at sacathcart@educbe.ca

As always, if there are any questions, please feel free to email me.

The Veldt Comprehension Questions

These are the comprehension questions due on Monday. Please make sure you use quotes from your story to back up your answers.

The Veldt Comprehension Questions

Please write your answers in complete sentences.

1. How would you describe each of the four main characters?
   George:
   
   
   Lydia:
   
   
   Peter:
   
   
   Wendy:
   
   
2. Why didn’t the nursery respond to Mr. Hadley’s request for Aladdin and his lamp?
   
   
   
   
   
3. Why did Mr. and Mrs. Hadley call a psychologist, even though they had the power to turn off the nursery?
   
   
   
   
4. Why did Mrs. Hadley ask her husband to let the kids have the nursery on for one last time?
   
   
   
   
5. This story can be considered a classic Gothic Horror story (which typically portrays “sick” houses or families). What clues does Bradbury give his reader that something bad is going to happen in the nursery?
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Has technology helped or hindered the families relationships? Explain your answer.
   
   
   
   
   
7. What happens at the end of the story? Was it an accident? How do you know?
   
   
   
   
   
8. “The Veldt” was published in 1951. It is a view of what Bradbury predicted life and technology would be like around the year 2000.
   a. Is this an accurate view? Why or why not?
   
   b. What predictions are correct?
   
   
   c. What predictions are not correct?
   
   
9. What message is Bradbury trying to send his readers about technology?
   
   
   
   
   
   

Short Story #2

We will be working on The Veldt as our second short story in this unit- continuing to work on plot diagrams and reading comprehension as we go.

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury is a story that takes place in "the future" and looks at technology and the potential and consequences of using it in our everyday lives.

We will be working on this short story for some of next week, and then students will be using their knowledge of the plot diagram to write their own short stories in the next few weeks.

The Veldt

Short Story:
https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/163728/The%20Veldt%20-%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf?sequence=1

Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvtNS6hbVy4

Audio of the Short Story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJAKjpb2eOs&t=1s