Short Stories elements

A Sound of Thunder

Literature Circles
Writing Process
Grammar
100

Time and location 

What is setting?

100

Dinosaur that the hunters killed.

What is T Rex?

100

This person's role is to identify the key ideas of the text, and end the session by summing up.

What is the summariser?

100

Type of writing in which you tell story.

What is narrative writing?

100

Past Continues form of " I write" 

What is I  was writing?

200

Man versus Society

What is Conflict?

200

Animal that Mr. Eckels killed. 

What is a butterfly?

200

This person's job is to locate sections of the text that reveal physical traits or personality characteristics about the different characters.

What is character analyser?

200

In this type of writing you use all your senses.

What is descriptive writing?

200

Present Perfect form of " She broke a glass"

What is she has broken a glass? 

300

Message from the author. 

What is Theme?

300

Point of view of the Story.

What is third person omniscient?

300

This person's  is  job is to find connections between the book his/her group is reading and the world outside, another book, etc.

What is connector?

300

It is the main idea of your paper.

What is Thesis Statement?

300

Tense :   "Henry was sweating because he had been running"

What is Past Perfect Continuous?

400

It is defined as the angle from which the story is told.

What is point of view?

400

Dictator who was elected at the end of the story. 

Who is Deutscher?

400

This person's job is to write questions that the group may want to discuss about an event from the story. 

What is discussion director?

400

First step in the writing process.

What is brainstorming/Prewriting?

400

Tense: They will be working here next year. 

What is Future Progressive/Continuous?
500

Rising Action.

What is Plot?

500

Author of A Sound of Thunder.

Who is Ray Bradbury?

500

The person's job is to  find words/phrases that are excellent/important and figure out why and centers the discussion on the author.

What is Wizard of Words

500

Forth step in the writing process.

What is Editing?

500

I had been working hard the whole day. 

What is Past Perfect Continuous?

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