Name ___________________________
Date _________________
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LEAVE NO ANSWERS BLANK. EMBRACE CONFUSION. TRY!
“Three Soldiers” Work through this handout after you have read the story at least twice and annotated it.
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Organization:
Setting (there are multiple settings, so list more than one!)
What do you notice about how this story is organized?
Where:
Why might Bruce Holland Rogers, the story’s author, have organized the
story this way? Consider how the organization affects the reader.
What clues does Rogers use that help readers make an inference about
the story’s time period/era/decade?
Plot Summary Summarize the plot in 3-4 sentences. Include the most important events from the beginning, middle, and end. Make sure your
summary addresses conflict in the story. Consider both external and internal conflicts. (Write in complete sentences.)
Characterization Focus on the main character.
Provide a character trait (list an adjective to describe what he’s like)
The TITLE
Why do you think Bruce Holland Rogers chose “Three Soldiers” for
the title of his story?
Describe at least two examples of something this character does, says, or
thinks that demonstrates the trait you chose.
A)
B)
How does the main character change from the beginning to the end? If
stuck, it’s helpful to use adjectives. He goes from…
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to
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Theme (Look at your Close Reading handout for help.)
A) What life subject or human behavior does the story address? (Don’t get fancy yet; this
can even be one word.)
B) What does Rogers’s story specifically have to say about the subject/issue/behavior you
chose? Finish ONE of the following sentences
A central theme of Bruce Holland Rogers’s “Three Soldiers,” is the idea that people often…
A central theme of Bruce Holland Rogers’s “Three Soldiers,” is the idea that we
sometimes…
INSIGHTS FROM YOUR ANNOTATIONS
What’s something about the story that confused you
or prompted you to ask a question? (It may even be
something that initially confused you but that after
re-reading or thinking, you better understood.)
Explain.