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Second Read
• Reread the excerpt to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Craft and Structure: The word “devouring” is used in paragraph 1. What is the effect of this word choice on the mood of the opening?
2. Knowledge and Ideas: Why does the author use mathematical terms like “linear” and “vertical” to describe the scene?
3. Key Ideas and Details: What can you infer about IT as a character in the novel? Provide textual evidence to support your inferences.
4. Key Ideas and Details: Throughout the story, how do others assist Meg in her quest to rescue her brother?
5. Craft and Structure: What word in paragraph 32 tells you the meaning of the word “loathing”?
6. Key Ideas and Details: What is the power of “the Black Thing,” of IT, that Meg must battle against? Choose a line that best expresses IT’s power and explain your choice.
my Notes
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