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“The Scarlet Ibis”

“The Scarlet Ibis” . Group Work/Teacher Notes. Page Two – text book 598 - 600. Group Work. With your group see if you can find the teacher note for the literary term you are assigned Read the rest of the story filling out Cornell Notes Requirement: Fill out three two notes (on ANYTHING)

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“The Scarlet Ibis”

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  1. “The Scarlet Ibis” Group Work/Teacher Notes

  2. Page Two – text book 598 - 600

  3. Group Work • With your group see if you can find the teacher note for the literary term you are assigned • Read the rest of the story filling out Cornell Notes • Requirement: • Fill out threetwonotes (on ANYTHING) • Try and find your group’s assigned literary term in the story and put it in your Cornell notes • When you are finished reading the story and filling in your Cornell notes please go back to your assigned seat and read silently until all of your peers are finished.

  4. Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death. • Oxymoron • His pride helped Doodle, but it was selfish motivation. Suggests he felt conflicted by this pride/action.

  5. Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death. • Metaphor • His pride is a seed with good and bad vines (effects of the pride)

  6. With success so imminent Margin Note • Vocabulary word • They knew they were close to success - walking

  7. I began to believe in my own infallibility Margin Note • Vocabulary word • The narrator thought he was flawless because he taught Doodle to walk.

  8. If we produced anything less than the Resurrection, she was going to be disappointed • Allusion • Refers to Jesus’s Resurrection from the dead – Doodle learning to walk would be a miracle. Maybe Doodle is like Jesus.

  9. Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket • Personification • Hope isn’t hiding – like it is so powerful is wants to be seen – Doodle will walk

  10. Success lay at the end of summer like a pot of gold… • Simile • Success (running, swimming, etc) was a hopeful reward that is probably not real (like gold at then end of a rainbow)

  11. Last Section – Rest of the book

  12. We had both wandered too far into a net of expectations and left no crumbs behind • Metaphor • They feel trapped (net) because they expect so much of Doodle that there is no plan for failure

  13. “the wings were uncoordinated” • Symbol • Like Doodle’s struggle to walk

  14. “it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers” • Simile • A vase is beautiful and fragile. (Simile symbolizes Doodle)

  15. “Dead birds is bad luck” • Foreshadowing • Doodle’s death

  16. “lightning was playing across the sky” • Personification • Makes the setting seem like it is messing with the boys

  17. “that streak of cruelty within me awakened” • Personification • His cruel side came to live, like it overpowered him

  18. “sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain” • Metaphor • Scarlet Ibis is Doodle now – creates the symbolism

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