Ender's Game Close Reading Analysis Worksheets Bundle with Answer Keys

Support the development of close reading analysis skills for high school with this set of rigorous activities covering the science fiction novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Each worksheet eliminates the need for take-home assessment planning without sacrificing academic rigor. Answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will do the following:

• Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly
• Define challenging words and phrases as they are used in the text
• Examine nuances in words with similar meanings
• Discern the greater significance and intended effects of given details
• Consider historical context when answering questions about plot
• Make logical inferences about the author’s thinking in context
• Discern the tone of given excerpts
• Determine the function of a given chapter
• Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
• Compare and contrast characters (Ender and Peter)
• Apply knowledge of literary devices including symbolism, personification, simile, metaphor, epiphany, pun, foreshadowing, invective, euphemism, allusion, paradox, ambiguity, anaphora, rhetorical questioning, situational irony, verbal irony, and dramatic irony
• Explore themes in context
• Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant textual evidence
• Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision