Question
Analyze the Text
Notebook Respond to these questions.
CITE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
to support your answers.
1. (a) Analyze What tone, or attitude, does the automated voice use to
address the missing inhabitants? (b) Draw Conclusions What idea about
technology does this tone suggest?
2. Reread paragraph 16. (a) Interpret Who are the "gods" that have gone
away? (b) Contrast What contrast does this passage set up between the
house's behavior and the new reality?
3. (a) Summarize In paragraphs 40-42, what personal information is given
about one of the house's former inhabitants? (b) Hypothesize Why does
the author wait until this point in the story to provide specific information
about one of the people who lived in the house?
4. Evaluate Reread the poem in paragraph 44. Is the story a "retelling" of
the poem? Explain.
5. Essential Question: Why do we try to imagine the future? What
have you learned about people's attempts to imagine the future from
reading this story?