After The Theatre: Reading Together

We are reading After The Theatre a short story by Anton Chekhov together. This story is about youthful fantasies and the idea of love - it is an easy to medium read and may require more than one reading to understand.

Check out Word Discovery for this story: here.

The video has captions so you can follow along on the screen, but I encourage you to print the below pdf of the story so you can read it a second time (and maybe even a third!) time on paper. When reading on paper, you can highlight or underline interesting words and write your reactions in the margins! That's top-tier engaging with a text!

Engage further with this story! 

Now that you have read the After The Theatre take your learning further by participating in the chat below.
What is your personal reaction to this story? 
Did you enjoy it, why or why not? 
Did you like the language the author uses? 
What universal experience do you think the author was trying to capture? Do you connect with any of the ideas in this story?
What do you think of the Nadya? How is her youth an important element of this story?

Investigating Language
Choose another one or two words in the story and try to learn more about them. 
Look up the word in a dictionary, online or paper, and see if the word has any other meanings. 
If a word has an unusual spelling, search etymology of the word and find out where it comes from. 
Does the word have prefixes or suffixes? Can you use morphology to find out what it means and connect it to other words that share a morpheme? 
Search up synonyms or antonyms to the word.