Coding for Visualizing
Name: Reading first Chapter of The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane.
* Highlight five words or phrases that help you get a picture in your head.
1. "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."
2. "Smoke drifted lazily from a multitude of quaint chimneys."
3. "His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in colour, lurid with breathless deeds."
4. "...but there was another and darker girl whom he had gazed at steadfastly, and he thought she grew demure and sad at sight of his blue and brass."
5. "It had suddenly appeared to him that perhaps in a battle he might run."
* Write three questions you have about the piece. Begin each question with the words "I wonder".
1. (In the first page) I wonder who the main character is and what he will be like?
2. (The youth compares battles to stories of Homer.) I wonder how much education he has had?
3. I wonder how I'd react to my son or daughter going off to fight in a war?
* On the back of this sheet, write what you think happened in the piece.
This is set in the civil war, in a union army camp. I know this because they are wearing blue uniforms instead of grey. They have been waiting for some time and are bored and perhaps restless. The main character is Henry. He is very young and comes from a farm, though he's had some education. He's dreamed of being heroic in war, but now that it comes to the possibility of fighting, he's wondering if he will be able to do it. Will he run? He asks the older soldiers if anyone will run and they make it sound like it's always a possibility that someone will run when the fighting starts. He is comforted that he is not the only one who has considered it.
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