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?