You will need 5 sheets of paper, folded like we always do for annotations. You will be doing a partner read, but both people need their own annotation sheets. You will not have time in class to prepare this.
Guided Annotations
pg. 576
*Is the setting of the story in the past or the future? Cite textual evidence to support your answer.
*Why do you think certain words are capitalized?
pg 577
*What does the style of writing remind you of. Give examples from the text to support your answer.
pg 578
*Why do you think it is forbidden to go east?
pg 579
*Make a text to text connection. Include evidence from the text to support your answer.
pg 580
*What is the narrator’s name? Does this surprise you? Why or why not.
*Has your about the setting from page one changed? Why or why not? Use textual evidence to support your answer.
*What has destroyed the Place of the Gods. Use textual evidence to support your answer.
pg 581
*Give further evidence from the text to support your answer from page 580 about the Place of the Gods.
*What sorts of things does John find in the Place of the Gods? Use textual evidence to support your answer.
*Stop reading at the end of page 581 and make a prediction about the end of the story using textual evidence to support your answer.
pg 582
*Summarize this page.
pg 583
*What sorts of things does John discover at the Dead Place.
pg 584
Describe John’s dream.
pg 585
*Analyze the following quote “I knew the reason for the Dead Places but I did not see why it had happened. It seemed to me it should not have happened, with all the magic they had.” What are the implications of this quote?
*What is the last thing John finds in the Dead Place? Use textual examples to support your answer.
*What does John realize while he is in the Dead Place?
pg 586
*Connect this story to anther text we have read. Use textual evidence to support your answer.
*What is the Place of the Gods? What clues were left for us along the way? Did you see it coming?
Dear Ms. Jamieson,
The second question for page 580 is missing a word after “your”.
Thanks Raneem,
It should say “Has your prediction about the setting changed?”
Ms J
Dear Ms. Jamieson
Under page 577 there should be a ‘?’ after the word “of”.
Under page 580, there should be a ‘?’ after the word “not”.
Also on page 580, there should be a ‘?’ after the word “Gods”.
Under page 583, the period should be replaced with a question mark.
Sincerely, Abdel
Dear Ms J,
Under page 586, there should be a ‘o’ in between n and t in the word ‘another.’
Wow everyone’s a grammar police now??
Abdel and Aisha
Thank you both for pointing out all of my glaring grammar mistakes. Since you have such a strong grasp on the fundamentals of English, I will be expecting perfect grammar, mechanics and spelling on every assignment from now until the end of the year.
Sincerely,
Ms J