September
16
ELA 20: Sept 16 Symbolism in literature…
- Yesterday, we read and discussed the short story “Penny in the Dust”, focusing on the use of symbolism. We reviewed the story today, reviewed their understanding of what symbolism is and how it was developed in that story, and then started their independent assignment where they have to find the object of symbolism from a new story themselves.
- Students are to read “The Rink” and find the example of symbolism (there are actually two). Once they’ve found it and decided which parts of the story they will use as reference in their paragraph, they are to create a body paragraph that would be part of an essay discussing the use of symbolism in literature. They can decide to make their body paragraph as the first, second, or third of the essay, but it would be indicated by a transitional phrase in the first sentence.
- I showed them some examples of the same project and gave them the assignment handout sheet that listed, once again, the functions of the six sentences for the paragraph. We studied last year, just before summer, the format to follow for these body paragraphs so they are uniform and consistent.
- They had thirty minutes to read the story and find their reference sources.