Cloze Activity Based on the Opening of Twelve Angry Men


This is a summary of Twelve Angry Men. The story starts when the            tells the jury that they have to decide if the boy is guilty of           . The            has to be           , which means they all have to agree on the vote.

When the jurors enter the room, they talk about several things before they talk about the case:           ,           , and           . The guard is            the door.

The jurors decide to take a            right away before any discussion. Juror            is the only one to vote            on the first vote. He wants to            the case for a while. We know the boy is            years old. We know the knife went into the father            inches. Juror eight provides information about the boy that we did not know yet:

  1. The boy’s mother           .
  2. The boy lives in a           .
  3. The boy is a           ,            kid.

We found out information about some of the jurors. One said he worked his way through           , but he never            anyone. Another one said he lived around them his whole life and we can’t            a word they say.

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From “Using High-Interest Materials to Engage Secondary Students in Reading” by Rita Mulholland.
Reading Online, www.readingonline.org
Posted October 2002