Activities for “The Scarlet Ibis”



Activities for “The Scarlet Ibis”

Pre-Reading

For each of the following groups of people, assign a number from 1-5 (5 being the highest) to indicate the level of expectation they have for you.

parents siblings friends teachers coaches yourself

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Who do you think expects most from you and why?

Add the definitions to the following words to your short story literary term list:

Inference Simile Allusion

Symbol Metaphor

Foreshadow Personification

Read the build background and focus your reading on page 592.

During Reading

1) Read the first paragraph on page 594. What mood is created? Site words that help create that mood? (You may list.)

2) List 2 allusions you see while reading and the significance. Why are they used? (list)

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b.

3) “They named him William Armstrong, which was like tying a big tail on a small kite.” (p. 595)

Of what is this an example? Explain the meaning. (list)

4) Page 596- Answer the Active Reading question… (reading strategy- connecting)

5) (p. 597) “There is within me… a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction…”

Of what are the highlighted words an example? ______________________

Meaning? What could this statement be implying? Interpret…

• What can stop or block the flow of blood in the bloodstream? ________________

• What happens to a person whose blood stops flowing? _____________________

• Why might the narrator’s knot of cruelty be important to the story?

You just made a prediction!! Let’s make another…

6) Page 598 Answer the Active Reading question.

7) “Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible.” (p. 598) Of what is this an example? _____________________________

8) What do the narrator’s tears signify on page 599?

9) Page 601 Answer the Active Reading question. What is the significance of the “net of expectations?”

10) Page 603 Answer the Active Reading question.

Of what is the scarlet ibis an example? ___________________________

Once you learn how the story ends, list any items in the story that you felt foreshadowed the ending of the story.

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