Games At Twilight
Active Reading
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Base XP: 60
Base XP: 60
Learning Target(s):
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to analyze ideas within, between, and beyond texts.
Use active reading skills to predict, visualize, connect, question, and respond to questions on a selection of prose.
Evaluate how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact.
Review the Active Reading Strategies in this quest.
For this quest, you will answer the following questions on the short story Games at Twilight using complete and descriptive sentences. Each question’s part of the active-reading strategy has been identified. Be sure to make reference to the question in the answer.
Games at Twilight Questions
1. PREDICT What does the title of the story suggest about its content?
2. VISUALIZE/CONNECT Put yourself in Ravi’s position. Explain what you would have done after Raghu left the shed area.
3. PREDICT/CONNECT If you could speak to Ravi, what would you tell him about games?
4. QUESTION In the story, where does Ravi hide?
5. QUESTION Even though he wasn’t caught, what causes Ravi to lose the game?
6. QUESTION In the story, how does Ravi feel about Raghu?
7. VISUALIZE Based on the choices Ravi makes in the story, what do we know about his personality?
8. RESPOND At the end of the story, what bitter lesson does Ravi learn?
9. RESPOND Do you think that Ravi’s “sense of insignificance” at the end of the story will remain strong? Explain.
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