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Section 2 – Guided reading questions for “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray BradburyName: _________________________1. How far in the past do the men travel? _____________________________________________________________________2. Identify one cause-and-effect statement in the first 5 paragraphs: _______________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________3. Look at the following lines from the story:“We don’t want to change the Future. We Don’t belong here in the Past. The government doesn’t like us here. We have a big graft to keep our franchise. A Time Machine is finicky business.” Why are the words “Future” and “Past” capitalized as proper nouns in the story? ___________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why is the word “like” italicized? _________________________________________________________________________ What can you infer about Time Safari, INC. and its relationship with the government? _______________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Using context clues, define “finicky” and list two synonyms for the word. _________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________4. Cause-and-Effect: Explain in your own words how one small mistake by Eckels could impact the future in a big way. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________5. Identify and explain the Biblical allusion in the last paragraph we read: Allusion: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ What it means: ________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________The Butterfly EffectIn the short story, “A Sound of Thunder,” we learn that traveling through time is “finicky” business. The characters from the story must be careful when going sixty-five million years into the past on a safari. Any wrong move they make could impact the future in a very big way. This is known as the “Butterfly Effect.” Even the small, minor choices we make today could have a huge influence on what happens in the next fifty, one-hundred, or even one-thousand years. Choose one of the topics below and write six sentences about how “tomorrow” will be affected by that topic. left6731000 Example: Today: There is an oil spill off the coast of California.Tomorrow:1. Fish are poisoned.2. People must buy expensive fish from the east coast.3. People can no longer afford fish, so they eat more meat.4. More and more people get high cholesterol from red meat. 5. More people begin dying from heart attacks due to high cholesterol. 6. A president who would have kept a war from starting is never born. Choose a topic or create your own:Topic 1: More oil is pumped to lower the price of ic 2: A park is bought and made into a parking lot for a store. Topic 3: A new chemical plant buys property near your town to expand their ic 4: Hunting regulations are removed allowing people to hunt year-round. Topic 5: Create your own – it must be an issue that could really take place.Write your topic here.Today (cause):Complete six sentences.Tomorrow (effects): 1. 2. 3.4.5.6. ................
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