Lesson Plan

The Consequences of Time Travel: Analyzing Short Stories

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Ray Bradbury's short story "A Sound of Thunder" is the anchor text in a instructional activity that asks high schoolers to find examples of cause, effect, and foreshadowing in the tale. They then create a brochure advertising trips with Time Travel, Inc.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Instructional Ideas
  • Conduct a gallery walk of a display of the brochures class members create
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires projection devices for the PowerPoint presentation, copies of the short stories, and the worksheets
Pros
  • Links are provided to resources that detail the learning strategies used in the lesson
  • Materials are in Spanish and English
Cons
  • None
Common Core