1. September 8th, 2014
Pull out your notebooks
Label DSW
Respond to the prompt:
Can one small action or decision change a person’s life?
(Explain your reasoning)

2. “A Sound of Thunder”
Ray Bradbury

3. Can one small action or decision change a person’s life
Can one small action or decision change a person’s life? What if you leave home a fraction of a second too late to cross paths with someone you might have fallen in love with? Or what if you miss your flight to Tokyo the same day a devastating earthquake strikes the city?
In the story you’re about to read– well, see for yourself!

4. Taking Care of Business
Vocabulary Terms
Annihilate
Expendable
Teeming
Paradox
Resilient
Remit
Undulate
Revoke
Primeval
Subliminal
Define terms in your notes
Number 1-10, have students look up word either in the big blue textbook, dictionary, or phones

5. Understanding Plot Plot Conflict External versus Internal Exposition
Climax
Resolution

6. Double Entry Journal
As you read, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury – Create a double entry journal.
10 Entries (Different guidelines than before!) Please type!
Pull 10 quotes from the story/ elaborate, explain, question
1. “A warm phlegm gathered in Eckels’s throat; he swallowed and pushed it down…” pg. 36
The imagery in this passage is intense, right at the beginning of the short story. He seems nervous to do what he is about to do. Why would you travel back in time JUST to shoot an animal?