Short Story and Venn Diagram
August 2026 Activities
Activity One: First Reading
Read the story
Can you make any links to the poem we have already studied?
What are some differences?
Complete a VENN diagram using TWO pages of your book:
Close read the short story together
Activity Two: Preliminary Activities
1. Re-tell the story in your own words (don’t look at the story)- what words or phrases can you remember?
2. Read the story again.
3. Summarise the short story in exactly 19 words.
4. Draw a SIX box cartoon to represent the story- it is up to you which factors you choose
Today’s Questions: Answer the following in your book:
1. How was the house smart enough to know when to make food etc, yet not smart enough to know that there was no one there?
2. What role does the dog play in the story? What does it show?
3. How did the house survive the blast?
4. Why does the dog die of starvation when the story could be about animal survival?
5. Why wasn’t the dog killed in the blast?
6. Why doesn’t the house let the dog in the kitchen?
7. What does “There will come soft rains mean”?
Complete this table with information that you know from the story, and questions that you need to know in order to comprehend the story. My information is there to act as examples- you put what you know and need to know in your own one.
What I KNOW… QUESTIONS I have… There are no people in the story Why are there no people?
Share ideas together- on the board.
Can you answer any using evidence from the text?
HOMEWORK:
12EN Homework
Given WEDNESDAY 22ND FEBRUARY
DUE MONDAY 27 FEBRUARY
Your task is to find out:
Find FOUR facts about Bradbury- What was happening around the world from WW2 until 1977 to influence Ray Bradbury’s writing? Do the events occurring around the world at this time influence a sense of technological paranoia? Find FIVE events or important pieces of information from the time period above.
Explain
Activity One: First Reading
Read the story
Can you make any links to the poem we have already studied?
What are some differences?
Complete a VENN diagram using TWO pages of your book:
Close read the short story together
Activity Two: Preliminary Activities
1. Re-tell the story in your own words (don’t look at the story)- what words or phrases can you remember?
2. Read the story again.
3. Summarise the short story in exactly 19 words.
4. Draw a SIX box cartoon to represent the story- it is up to you which factors you choose
Today’s Questions: Answer the following in your book:
1. How was the house smart enough to know when to make food etc, yet not smart enough to know that there was no one there?
2. What role does the dog play in the story? What does it show?
3. How did the house survive the blast?
4. Why does the dog die of starvation when the story could be about animal survival?
5. Why wasn’t the dog killed in the blast?
6. Why doesn’t the house let the dog in the kitchen?
7. What does “There will come soft rains mean”?
Complete this table with information that you know from the story, and questions that you need to know in order to comprehend the story. My information is there to act as examples- you put what you know and need to know in your own one.
What I KNOW… QUESTIONS I have… There are no people in the story Why are there no people?
Share ideas together- on the board.
Can you answer any using evidence from the text?
HOMEWORK:
12EN Homework
Given WEDNESDAY 22ND FEBRUARY
DUE MONDAY 27 FEBRUARY
Your task is to find out:
Find FOUR facts about Bradbury- What was happening around the world from WW2 until 1977 to influence Ray Bradbury’s writing? Do the events occurring around the world at this time influence a sense of technological paranoia? Find FIVE events or important pieces of information from the time period above.
Explain