A fascinating short story of a man not in his normal element and paying the ultimate price.
 
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies an author uses and explain why he uses them. A vocabulary chart asks students to use context clues to define words and a literary device identification chart has students identify the literary device used or find the example and determine the author's purpose for using it. A short-constructed response question is included for writing purposes. Answers are provided for all activities.