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Obituary of one of the characters.

Choose a character from The Veldt and write his/her obituary.

Draw a picture of the nursery, or other science fiction gadget.

Using the descriptions from the text, illustrate a picture.

Character Outlines

Trace a student on butcher paper and make life size cutouts of the characters. Put quotes on the inside of the outline for internal actions: thoughts and feelings. Put quotations on the outside of the character that represents external forces on the character, like time period, setting, other characters expectations, etc.

Plot Charades

In small groups have students act out major plot points in the short story and then have the other students guess which scene it is from.

Newspaper Article

Write a fictional newspaper article that would depict a culture such as this.

Alternate Ending

Write an alternate ending for the short story.

Character Diary

Write a diary...

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