- While I check your
symbolism chart (20 items)…
- Open your books to page 333. Using the first 2 paragraphs, answer the 8 questions that follow AND TURN IN ON CENTER TABLE WHEN FINISHED
Right there questions:
1. Between what
two seasons does this story begin?
2. What is the
oriole nest compared to?
Think and Search
3. Explain what
all the colors in this passage suggest?
4. What is
making the narrator remember Doodle?
Author and You
5. This opening
paragraph has a grim tone to it. How do authors create appropriate tones for
horror stories?
6. The oriole
images in this passage are sad, depressing. How could the author have created a
different emotion using the same bird images?
On My Own
7. Think about
a sad moment in your life. What symbols/images would you use to help convey the
sadness of this moment?
8. What is your
opinion of death?
·
TURN
IN ON CENTER TABLE WHEN FINISHED
DISCUSS: list all the events that happened in the last
half-hour of Doodle’s life (beginning on page 342 “As soon as I had finished
eating…” until the end of the story)
Discussed the ending of “The Scarlet Ibis” – what happened?
Is it the narrator’s fault?
·
How
specifically did Doodle die?
o
What
do we know for sure?
·
How
do we know he didn’t die by lightning? A fallen tree?
·
Is
his death the narrator’s fault?
(Was it easier to prove them guilty or not
guilty?)
4 lists – 40 reasons total:
- List 10 events that
happened in the story that would help convince a jury that…
- 1. Doodle’s older brother
is responsible for the death of Doodle?
- 2. Doodle’s parents are
responsible for the death of Doodle?
- 3. Doodle’s older brother
is NOT responsible for the death of Doodle?
- 4. Doodle’s parents are NOT responsible for the death of Doodle?
ENGLISH homework:
Finish your 4 lists (see above)
Study for Friday’s Prefix test (11 prefixes from “30-15-10”
list) = re- ………cred-
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