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Exploring Time Travel and Its Consequences in Ray Bradbury’s "A Sound of Thunder"

Welcome back! Get ready to dive into the intriguing world of time travel with Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder." In today's lesson, you'll write in your journal while considering what era you would like to visit. We'll review the plot where a time safari to hunt dinosaurs goes awry, emphasizing the butterfly effect on reality. Ensure you are prepped with Vocabulary 4, and remember to submit all assignments by Friday! Also, prepare for our upcoming test on your English II reading list. Let's explore the past and the implications it holds!

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Exploring Time Travel and Its Consequences in Ray Bradbury’s "A Sound of Thunder"

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  1. Welcome back! • Get out a piece of paper, you have a journal • Then… • Clip • Vocab 4- be ready to clicker this on Wednesday • ALSO!!!From Friday, you need to turn in all work • Vocab 3 • Article- tech • Journals • Questions!!

  2. Welcome back! • Get out a piece of paper, you have a journal • Then… • Clip • Vocab 4- be ready to clicker this on Wednesday

  3. JOURNAL 1—PREREADING“TIME TRAVEL” • If traveling through time were possible, what era would you most like to visit? Would you want to travel back to the past or ahead into the future? Would you want to travel just a few dozen years, or would you travel hundreds, a thousand, or even more years?

  4. A Sound of Thunder pg 71 • Plot Summary • On the eve of an American presidential election, a party of rich businessmen undertake a time travel safari to the past to hunt dinosaurs. While the organizers have taken every precaution to minimize the impact of the hunting party on the past, one member violates the rules and leaves the designated path. Upon their return to the present the group finds that the world has been drastically altered by the seemingly unimportant death of a pre-historic butterfly.

  5. Before we read • Let’s hear what Ray Bradbury, the author, has to tell us. • Ray Bradbury Interview VNR by Waukegan Public Library with Watermark.wmv

  6. Vocab 4 • When you are done, read your English II list book. • You have a test over your book on Sept 27th!!

  7. Tuesday! • Bell work • Questions • Pg 71, “A Sound of Thunder”

  8. A Sound of Thunder pg 71 • Plot Summary • On the eve of an American presidential election, a party of rich businessmen undertake a time travel safari to the past to hunt dinosaurs. While the organizers have taken every precaution to minimize the impact of the hunting party on the past, one member violates the rules and leaves the designated path. Upon their return to the present the group finds that the world has been drastically altered by the seemingly unimportant death of a pre-historic butterfly.

  9. JOURNAL 2—POSTREADING“DINOSAURS!!!” • In a review of Dinosaur Tales, the collection of Bradbury stories that contains "A Sound of Thunder," the critic Andrew Andrews remarks that Bradbury "gets to you—in the simple ways he shows you how to marvel over these awesome, startling creatures." What was your reaction to Bradbury's portrayal of the dinosaurs in the story?

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