In Cold Blood (pages 1-41)

Performance Indicators:

P.S ELA-2 Reading Analysis: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

A. Evaluate the relevant themes and synthesize how they are present in the novel in oral and written responses.
B. Interpret the implications of setting and circumstance.
C. Analyze the role of characters in the plot in oral and written responses.
D. Analyze important quotations from the text in oral and written responses.
E. Annotate the text.

P.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text.

A. Understand SOAPSTone: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone
B. Analyze the plot and/or design of the text, following shifts in time and place.

You are responsible for answering the questions and addressing the statements which follow.  Your study guide questions will be collected after you complete the novel.  You may, instead, choose to annotate each page that you read from the novel.  Your annotations, in this case, will be a substitute for the study guide response.

1.  Describe the setting (when & where) of the story.
2.  Outline a family tree of the Clutter family,
3.  Who is Bobby Rupp?
4.  Why were Bobby and Nancy not considered an appropriate match of the time?
5.  What is River Valley Farms?
6.  Who is Alfred Stoeklein?
7.  Describe Dick
8.  Describe Perry
9.  Who is Jolene Katz and Roxie Lee Smith?
10. Who is Susan Kidwell?
11. Where did Dick and Perry meet?
12. What was the condition of Dick’s parole?
13. What is wrong with Bonnie Clutter?
14.  Describe the political and cultural identity of Finney County.
15.  What is Dick’s plan (page 37)?
16.  Describe Kenyon Clutter
17. Who is Skeeter and Babe?
18.  Who is Mr. Helm?