Shooting an
Elephant
By George Orwell
SB 1.17 page 57
Reflective
Essay
Reflective
Essay
Event
Response
Reflective
Essay
Event
Response
Reflective
Essay
Event
Reflection
Chunk 1
1.
What can you infer about
the narrator based on his
commentary so far?
Chunk 1
1.
What can you infer about
the narrator based on his
commentary so far?
2. How do the people of Burma
receive the narrator? Explain.
Chunk 1
 1.
What can you infer about the
narrator based on his commentary
so far?
 2. How do the people of Burma
receive the narrator? Explain.
 3. Circle the positive images and
underline the negative images in
the two paragraphs.
Chunk 1
 1.
What can you infer about the
narrator based on his commentary
so far?
 2. How do the people of Burma
receive the narrator? Explain.
 3. Underline the positive images and
the negative images in the two
paragraphs.
 4. How does Orwell use diction
(word choices) and imagery (5
senses) to create a contrast
between the people of Burma and
the narrator?
Chunk 2
How
does Orwell’s use of
vivid detail set the event up
for the reader?
Chunk 3
Underline
the text to
identify the narrator’s
feelings and thoughts in
response to the event.
Chunk 4
Underline
the narrator’s
response and reflection in
the midst of his
circumstances.
Chunk 5
 Generate
one literal question, one
interpretive question, and one
universal question with answers.
 Literal – it’s LITERALLY in the text!
 Interpretive – answers may be
different but you must have
textual support.
 Universal – there is no ONE just
answer!
Chunk 6
Mark
the text for details of the
elephant’s collapse.
Write what the details reveal
about the writer’s attitude
toward life.
Chunk 7
 Underline
the narrator’s initial
response to the killing of the
elephant?
 What are the narrator’s thoughts
after he has had time to reflect to
contemplate or think seriously on
the killing of the elephant?