As I Read Graphic Organizer

In the first column below, type any questions or thoughts you have as you read. In the
second column, record an example or detail from the story that brought about your
question or thought. In the third column, note any answers you find or conclusions you
make about the examples or details you recorded in the first column. Your completed
graphic organizer should have a minimum of five complete entries.
As I Read Graphic Organizer

My Questions and Example or Detail from the Answers or Conclusions

Thoughts as I Read Text

What was happening to the "The end of the cylinder was Something was coming out
cylinder? being screwed out from within. from inside of it.
Nearly two feet of shining screw
projected."

What are terrestrial men? "But, looking, I presently saw These terrestrial men were
something stirring within the aliens.
shadow: greyish billowy
movements, one above another,
and then two luminous shining,
glowing disks—like eyes."

What is happening to the "I saw the shop man struggling He was being pulled into the
shop man? still on the edge of the pit. I pit with those terrestrial
found myself alone and saw the men.
people on the other side of the
pit running off, Stent among
them. I looked again at the
ungovernable
cylinder, and
terror gripped me."
 What did the terrestrial "The peculiar V—shaped mouth It featured a few
men look like? with its pointed upper lip, the human features.
absence of brow ridges, the
absence of a chin beneath the
wedgelike lower lip, the
incessant ceaseless,
constant quivering of
this mouth, the Gorgon
monster from
mythology; Medusa
groups of tentacles,
the tumultuous noisy
and agitated breathing
of the lungs in a
strange
atmosphere,...."

What did the author think "I turned and, running madly, The author was scared.
when they witnessed the made for the first group of trees,
alien actions? perhaps a hundred yards away;
but I ran slantingly and
avert
stumbling, for I could not
turn away my face
from these things."