The document is a graphic organizer for students to analyze foreshadowing in Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt". It instructs students to identify sentences from the text that hint at how the characters of George and Lydia will meet their demise, and then justify their answers. It provides one example of foreshadowing where Lydia discusses lions eating an unknown animal, foreshadowing that the lions will later eat George and Lydia.
The document is a graphic organizer for students to analyze foreshadowing in Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt". It instructs students to identify sentences from the text that hint at how the characters of George and Lydia will meet their demise, and then justify their answers. It provides one example of foreshadowing where Lydia discusses lions eating an unknown animal, foreshadowing that the lions will later eat George and Lydia.
The document is a graphic organizer for students to analyze foreshadowing in Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt". It instructs students to identify sentences from the text that hint at how the characters of George and Lydia will meet their demise, and then justify their answers. It provides one example of foreshadowing where Lydia discusses lions eating an unknown animal, foreshadowing that the lions will later eat George and Lydia.
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The Veldt - Foreshadowing Graphic Organizer
Ray Bradbury uses foreshadowing to hint at the fate of Lydia and George Hadley. Look for hints/clues in the text that Bradbury gives to indicate how George and Lydia will meet their demise in the veldt. Write the sentence(s) that show foreshadowing (in quotation marks) in column one. Justify your answer (in detail) in column two.
Foreshadowing example from the text
Rationale Justify your answer.
Example: "The vultures. You see, there are the
lions, far over, that way. Now they're on their way to the water hole. They've just been eating," said Lydia. "I don't know what."
George and Lydia are discussing an animal they
see being eaten by the lions. They are confused about what type of animal it is. Just before their death, they learn that the animal the lions were eating is, in fact, themselves.