Group 1:

List down all the unfamiliar words in the text with their
corresponding definitions.

Group 2:
Allison and Clark are of different ages. When you first read of their
age difference, what did you expect to happen in the story? Why
did you think they were together? How does our culture feel
about couples with such an age difference? By the end of the
story, how do their ages work differently than you perhaps
expected?

Group 3:
Why does the story begin and end with pumpkins? How are the
pumpkins transformed from the beginning of the story to the
end? What ideas or feelings do you usually associate with
pumpkins? How might your associations work with the theme of
the story? What specific details of the story can you use to justify
your thinking?

Group 4:
Why is the title of the story “Yours”? In what way does the title
give clues to the meaning of the story? What evidence from the
story backs up your analysis?

Group 5:
Why does a narrator and not one of the characters tell the story?
How would the story be different if told from the point of view of
Clark? Of Allison?
Group 6:
Identify the theme of the story.

Group 6:
Identify the theme of the story.