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What is symbolism?

Unit EQ: How do authors use literature to help readers develop awareness of how knowledge expands an individual’s understanding of the world around him/her?. What is symbolism?

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What is symbolism?

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  1. Unit EQ: How do authors use literature to help readers develop awareness of how knowledge expands an individual’s understanding of the world around him/her? What is symbolism? a technique in which a person, place, thing, or idea represents not only itself, but also a deeper, more complex reality beyond itself.

  2. LEQ: What is the symbolic effect of birds in To Kill a Mockingbird? • Universal Symbols • Identifiable and used by people in many cultures and countries • Cultural Symbols • The meaning is shared by people with the same ethnic background, faith, or other cultural connection • National Symbols • Meaning is understood in a particular society, regardless of cultural group, station, or class a person comes from • Contextual Symbols • Meaning applies only in the context of a particular work or works.

  3. LEQ: What is the symbolic effect of birds in To Kill a Mockingbird? • Read about Finches, Mockingbirds, and Robins on my teacher webpage • Octorara Senior High School • Teacher pages • Complete the Cornell Notes • “Notes” column: just take notes on the reading • “Main Idea / Key Points”: AFTER reading, pull out the main ideas, key points, terms • “Connection”: make a connection to the novel • Share your ideas with a partner • Anything interesting?

  4. LEQ: What is the symbolic effect of birds in To Kill a Mockingbird? • As you listen, complete the ICI2 • Interest: anything you found interesting • Connect: make connections to your own experiences or readings • Investigate/Interrogate: questions you have, or what you want to investigate further • Share your ideas with a partner • Anything interesting?

  5. LEQ: What is the symbolic effect of birds in To Kill a Mockingbird? • Assignment: Write a Found Poem using the information you learned with the bird handouts, the Youtube poetry reading videos, and TKAM. • A found poem uses language from non-poetic contexts and turns it into poetry. Think of a collage – visual artists take scraps of newspaper, cloth, feathers, bottle caps, and create magic. You can do the same with language poems. • Writing this type of poetry is a kind of treasure hunt. Search for interesting scraps of language, then put them together in different ways and see what comes out. Putting seemingly unrelated things together can create a kind of chemical spark, leading to surprising results.

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