You Disappearing Check-In

The story begins with ___ going missing.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Second person point of view is when...

• You as the reader are called out and treated as a character in the story

• The narrator is telling a story about your life

• The narrator is a character in the story that you follow

• The pronoun "you" is used throughout the story

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which quote best shows the narrator's fear about losing you?

• "I thought you might have forgotten who did what to whom, but you haven't yet."

• "You were the sort of person that keeps it all going, and I was the other kind."

• "And I said I should let you go, and you said goodnight."

• "I was getting more afraid of the day when you wouldn't pick up."

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The narrator wants to ride the _____ one last time.

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

"When water disappears, other water rushes in right away to take its place, you never see any kind of hole or gap."

"She would go out to the old well...in the echo that came back they said you could hear whispers from the other side."

Based on these quotes, water in the story most closely symbolizes...

• The narrator's inability to move on from the relationship

• A new beginning

• The power of memory

• The narrator's fear of everything disappearing

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The narrator worries that if no one is around to see her ____ that no one will ever know she existed.

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"We aren't dying, we don't have cancer, you said. So I don't want to live like we do, you said." What does this quote suggest about you as a character?

• You are certain that there is a solution to the disappering

• You are focused on continuing to live life

• You don't believe in the disappearing

• You are not interested in being with the narrator anymore

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What question do you have about this short story (plot, characters, theme, etc.)?

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is the theme of this story? (Think about the takeaway we are supposed to leave our reading with)

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2