“The Scarlet Ibis”



“The Scarlet Ibis”

by James Hurst

Year-long Theme: The Journey of a Lifetime

Unit theme: Innocence to Experience

Essential Questions

• How can using prefixes, suffixes and context clues help a person decipher the meaning of a word?

• How can defining and identifying figurative language lead to a better understanding of how it moves a short story?

• How can we use quotations from a short story to identify parts of the plot chart?

• How can answering an interpretive question help the reader develop argumentation by using textual evidence to support an understanding of the text?

Focus Question: Why do we feel the need to “improve” another person based upon what we consider to be his or her faults?

Interpretive Question: What does the narrator mean when he says, “All of us must have something or someone to be proud of” (Hurst 354)?

Literature Terms

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Symbol/Symbolism

• Mood

• Point-of-View: First Person, Third Person Limited, Third Person Omniscient

• Plot Chart: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution, Dénouement

• Internal Conflict: Man vs. Himself

• External Conflict: Man vs. Man, Man vs. nature, Man vs. Technology, Man vs. the Supernatural, Man vs. Society

Grammar Terms

• Noun: count nouns, non-count nouns

• Verb

• Preposition

• Pronoun

• Article

• Conjunction

• Subject

Literary Analysis Activities

• Read “The Scarlet Ibis”

• Highlight examples of imagery within “The Scarlet Ibis”

• Highlight examples of figurative language within “The Scarlet Ibis”

• Re-write a portion of the story with no figurative language and assess how figurative language moves a story

• Construct a plot chart using quotes from “The Scarlet Ibis”

• Use context clues along with prefixes and suffixes to identify word meaning within a context

• Become familiar with the process of interpretive writing

• Correctly write a paragraph answering an interpretive question

Literary Analysis Assessment

• Use context clues, along with prefixes and suffixes, to identify word meaning (multiple choice)

• Match short story, figurative language and grammar terms with their definitions

• Identify figurative language in context (matching)

• Assess how figurative language moves a short story (multiple choice)

• Identify the parts of speech within a sentence (matching)

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