A Sound of Thunder (pg. 499)

Ray Bradbury

Please take out a piece of paper. Title it “A Sound of Thunder” notes. Then, a few spaces below, title it “Quick write.” Respond to the following prompt:

Jot down some thoughts about where you’d go if you could travel through time. Would you choose the past or the future as your destination? Would you stay in the region where you live, or would you go someplace else? How would traveling through time affect your life?

Style: Figurative Language and Mood Style

A particular way a writer uses language Largely created by diction (word choice),

sentence structure, and tone Emerges through the way he or she uses words

to recreate an experience

Formal vs. Informal Style

Formal Elegant words

Example: Friends are the greatest sources of joy and satisfaction that life has to offer. With a true friend, one feels completely at home, totally at ease.

Informal Simple, slang

Nothing can beat the fun of just hanging with your friends. No matter what happens, they’re always there for you.

Mood Created by setting and figurative language

Tone A writers attitude toward a subject, a character, or

a subject

Tone & Mood

Words for Tone Admiring Affectionate Bitter Comic Forgiving Mocking Sarcastic Serious vengeful

Words for Mood Eerie Gloomy Joyful Mysterious Peaceful Sad

*diction, figures of speech, and setting create mood

Tone and Mood Video Clips:

Click on the link below to see movie clips that were changed to evoke a different tone and mood:

http://ourenglishclass.net/class-notes/writing/the-writing-process/craft/tone-and-mood/

Setting and Mood Practice:

Turn your “Informal and Formal” writing practice sheet over. I am going to show you a picture on the next slide. Use this picture to write a paragraph- at least 10 sentences, in which you

create a character, place the character in the setting (the picture I’m showing you), and describe what the character sees.

For example, with the picture, the character might feel the spray of water from the falls, hear the sounds of the birds, and smell the water in the air. Or the birds might sound like begging vultures, and the water might hold the slight scent of sewage.

Make sure you use the senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound), to describe what your character is experiencing.

Neatness, creativity and attention to spelling and punctuation matters!

Setting and Mood Image for Previous Slide’s Activity:

A Sound of Thunder (pg. 499)

Ray Bradbury

SYNOPSIS: This science fiction story takes place in the year 2055. Time travel is possible. Characters:

Eckels, a wealthy hunter, who goes on a prehistoric safari to shoot a dinosaur.

Travis-leader of the prehistoric safari. Keith-a democrat, wins out over Deutscher who is a fascist

Democracy is a form of government where citizens participate in government by choosing the government through free and fair elections and the politicians represent their voters.

Fascism is a form of government, in which the country is considered more important than any one person, group, liberty, or provision. A country under this kind of government is usually run by a person called a leader,

who has the right of total control over the government and people.

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Lived 97-66 million years ago Length: 40-50 feet Height: 15-20 feet Weight: 5-7 tons Sharp six-inch-long teeth

Please take out a piece of paper: Title it “The Sound of Thunder” responses. Number #1 Respond to the yellow-box

question on pg. 505; using complete sentences.

Number #2 Summarize in 5 complete sentences what has happened in the story so far; pgs. 499-507.

Ray Bradbury

Bradbury Uses stylistic devices like vivid images and

imaginative figurative language metaphors, similes, personification.

Cause and Effect: Why and What A cause explains why something happens, and

an effect is the result of something that has happened.

AS YOU READ: Watch for words that signal cause and effect

such as because, for, since, so, as a result, therefore.

Notice how characters change. Why do they change? What causes those changes?

Figurative Language, Style, and Mood Practice: Draw the chart on the following slide. Copy down the passages from the story in

the first column. Identify the figure of speech and/ or imagery

in each passage in the second column. Describe how the passage contributes to the

story’s mood in the third column. The first one has been done for you.

Figurative Language, Style and MoodPassage from Story: Describe Bradbury’s Style

(figure of speech and/ or imagery)Describe the Story’s Mood

“The Machine howled. Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them…The Machine slowed; it’s scream fell to a murmur. The Machine stopped” (502).

Personification- The Machine, the Sun, and the Moon are given human characteristics with words like “howled,” “fled,” “screamed,” and “murmur.”

The mood of the story feels chaotic. Everything is loud and moving at a fast pace; before it finally slows down to a soft murmur.

“The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs. Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door. Silence. A sound of thunder” (505).

“The Tyrant Lizard raised itself. It’s armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins. The coins, crusted with slime, steamed. In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move. It exhaled. The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness” (505).

“His body screamed silence in return… he could feel them moving…like so many chess pieces blown in a dry wind” (509).

Cause and Effect

Please take out a piece of paper. Fold your paper hamburger style. On the upper half, make a cause and effect

map. Example on the following slide:

Cause and Effect Map: pgs. 506-509

Eckels stepping off the path.

Paraphrase causes of Eckels stepping off the path. (pg #)

Paraphrase the effects (results) of Eckels stepping off the path. (pg #)

Now, Review your completed Cause and Effect Map. Review your Causes and come up with a reason

that explains why Eckels stepped off the path. Review your effects and come up with a

statement that explains why it was a big deal for Eckels to step off the path.

Write them down somewhere on your map and circle them.

Use the format on the following slide to find concrete details to support your findings.

________________________________

________________________________

____________________________

____________________________

First, As a result, Topic sentence for 1st body paragraph. Topic sentence for

2nd body paragraph.

2 Concrete Details that support your reason Eckels stepped off the path from the text.

Transition words

2 concrete details that support your statement about why it was a big deal to step off from the path from the text.

Introductory statement: Eckels, a wealthy hunter, _______________________. His actions ___________________________________________________.

What does Eckels do? What do his actions do?

Reason Eckels stepped off the path.

Statement that explains why it was a big deal for Eckels to step off the path.

Now,

• Break it down!• Turn your paper around and on the

upper half, rewrite the first column.• On the lower half, rewrite the

second column.• Make complete sentences for the

information you gathered just like we practiced for the Scarlet Ibis!

• See following slide for example:

First body paragraph:

First,

Topic sentence for 1st body paragraph.

Concrete Details

For example, _________________________________________________________(page #).

Also, _____________________ (page #).

This means ______________________________________________.

In conclusion, _____________________________.

Concrete detail from the story that supports your reason.

2nd concrete detail from the story that supports your reason.

First, _______________________.Reason Eckels stepped off the path.

Second body paragraph:

As a result,

Topic sentence for 1st body paragraph.

Concrete Details

For example, _________________________________________________________(page #).

Also, _____________________ (page #).

This means ______________________________________________.

In conclusion, _____________________________.

Concrete detail that supports why big deal.

2nd concrete detail from the story that supports why big deal.

As a result, _______________________.Statement that

explains why it was a big deal for Eckels to step off the path.

Finally, Tie it all together into a mini three paragraph essay. Make your introductory sentence the first paragraph (black). Then use the maps that you just worked on for the body

paragraphs of your essay. Neatness, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, matters!

Review the grading handout I gave you to check your work. Don’t forget to color code it:

Blue: Topic sentence and concluding sentence. Red: Concrete details. Green: Commentary.