The document provides reading instructions and questions about the short story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury. It asks students to read the story on page 702 of their literature book and then answer questions about the main character Mr. Mead, including what he enjoys doing, why the sidewalks are buckling, what crime he commits, and what Bradbury's message is about television.

1. Warm Up/Take your
notebook out:
Think of the character picture from yesterday. How
are characters developed?

2. Warm Up Answer:
 (Thoughts, Actions, feelings, response to
events, what others say about them)

3. Probable Passage
 If you don’t already have a 2nd blank probable passage chart
in your notebook on pg. 7, then create one now.
Characters Setting Problem
Outcomes Unknown Words
Gist Statement
To Discover

4. Purple Literature book
 Open your book to page 702 and prepare to
read “The Pedestrian”.

5. Answer these questions:
 What did Mr. Mead most love to do?
 Why are the sidewalks buckling?
 What is meant when the police car says that Leonard has no
profession after he states he is a writer?
 What does Mr. Mead’s profession reveal about his character and his
place in society?
 What does Mr. Mead realize about the car?
 What crime did Mr. Mead commit?
 Explain what the simile “But now these highways, too, were like
stream beds in a dry season” means.
 What is significant about the following simile? How does it add to the
theme, the mood, and/or theme? The light held fixed, like a
museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.
 Leonard has met (#)_____ people in his ten years of walking at night.
 What message is Bradbury, the author, sending about television?