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Glass Castle Day 6. Do Now: Reading Quiz Early Bird: Look over your vocabulary or read. Learning Target: Analyze Symbolism in the glass castle. Ostentatious.
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Do Now: Reading Quiz Early Bird: Look over your vocabulary or read. Learning Target: Analyze Symbolism in the glass castle.
Ostentatious • “One day after Mr. Becker had come back from lunch and ostentatiously checked the display cases, I was so furious that I looked around to see if there was anything in the darn store worth stealing,” (Walls).
Ostentatious • flashy, showy, done with pride.
Epiphany • When Rex Walls yells at his children for back talking Erma, even though she locked the kids in the basement, Jeannette has an epiphany; She realizes her father can’t be counted on.
Epiphany To come to a sudden and important understanding.
Symbolism • Turn to page 61 : Dad told us that this zone in physics is known as the boundary between turbulence and order. • Turn to page 155...foundation for the glass castle filling up with garbage.
Brainstorm a list of other possible symbols or important objects/places in The Glass Castle. • Dessert vs. Welch
Writer’s Workshop Select a journal entry from the list and write for 15 minutes. Try to include symbolism. OR Think about an object, toy, place that is import to you now or was important to you in the past. Describe it and tell the story behind its importance.