ELA-Author-Sym-F

Author's Craft - Symbolism - Print - Fiction Resources

 * K-2**


 * 3-5**

This book contains many examples of symbolism. Teachers can use this story to teach the symbolism found in the withered leaf and white feather at the end of the story.
 * 6-8**
 * //Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy// by Gary D. Schmidt, Publisher: Yearling Book, 2004, ISBN: 978-0-553-49495-2
 * //"The Third Wish"// by Joan Aiken

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 * E1-E4 //(need to add 4 more sources, strive for variety)

//****The Pearl****//, John Steinbeck. Novella. Copyright 1927. ISBN 0-14-018738-3. Steinbeck's tale is a symbolic warning about materialism and the dangers of prosperity. Students will see "the great pearl, perfect as the moon...as large as a seagull's egg" as a symbol by which to assess the American dream, and they will find it wanting.

//**//**To Kill A Mockingbird** ** by Harper Lee. Copyright 1960. ISBN: 006017322X. This novel has grown in critical acclaim, notably its use of the mockingbird as a symbol. When the children receive guns at Christmas, the character Atticus Finch tells them that "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird," an innocent being. One character of an accused murderer that his death would be "like killing a mockingbird." An other symbol is the snowman who changes from black to white and back to black, suggesting that skin color reveals little about a peron's value. The famous film adaptations is [|To Kill a Mockingbird Bird].

[|**The Tell-Tale Heart**] **// Short story by Edgar Allen Poe. The "Evil Eye" and the eyes of teh characters become symbols of the inescapability of the hearts of men's souls. Ultimately the eyes prevail.

[|**As I Walked Out One Evening**] Poem by W.H. Auden. The clock, symbolizing the an instant of time, chimes only a few times, but tells the listener that life is fleeting & vows of lovers are, perhaps, more fleeting. Perhaps, because of "original sin" the observer suggests, the lovers cannot conquer time.


 * [|The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]** Poem by Samual Taylor Coleridge. The seven part poem bridges the eighteenth century stylized poetry with the Romantic movement in literature. Of the symbols, the albatross, a sign of good fortune is killed by the mariner. He is partially redeemed, but wanders the earth recalling the tale. Rich in language and poetic technique.