“There will come soft rains”



3. (a) Summarize In paragraphs 40-42, what personal information is given
about one of the house's former inhabitants? (b) Hypothesize Why does
the author wait until this point in the story to provide specific information
about one of the people who lived in the house?
Evaluate Reread the poem in paragraph 44. Is the story a "retelling"
the poem? Explain.
5. Essential Question: Why do we try to imagine the future? What
have you learned about people's attempts to imagine the future from
reading this story?