Shmoop University
Shmoop: To Kill a Mockingbird Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
A self-guided learning path exploring symbolism, imagery, and allegory.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Creating Dramatic Monologues From the Grapes of Wrath
This lesson plan engages students in creating dramatic monologues from certain scenes in The Grapes of Wrath. Primary sources from the Library of Congress are used to provide essential background content about the setting of the story.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Unlocking Symbolism/themes in Drama
Online lesson which uses Hansberry's "Raisin in the Sun" to teach the concepts of symbolism and theme in a dramatic work. Students learn the importance and significance of these terms as they study this work and other works of drama....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] As you work through this lesson, you will learn how to interpret poetry. You will learn how to spot a metaphor, you will learn to identify imagery, and you will be introduced...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Symbolism/allegory (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to explain the function of symbolism and allegory in a literary text such as a poem. The ability to recognize symbolism and allegory will...
Read Works
Read Works: American Symbols Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses American symbols. This passage can be used as a guided passage or to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Selected (9) reading passages (grades 10-12) to pair with "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd. In this novel about family connections and racial equality, Lily Owens and Rosaleen, Lily's housekeeper, run away to Tiburon, South...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Holes" by Louis Sacher
Stanley Yelnats is sent to a juvenile correctional camp for boys where each day he is forced to dig holes into a dry lake bed. Selected (8) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with the novel "Holes" by Louis Sacher. [Free account...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Capturing a Moment in Time
This lesson allows the students to explore imagery poetry through the use of a digital camera. The students visualize an imagery poem then look at a painting that pays tribute to the poem. Then the students think of a moment in time...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Digital Scrapbook: Symbols in the Scarlet Letter
Students will be given a list of symbols from the novel and then be asked to photograph images they think represent those symbols.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Symbolism
Explore how authors use symbolism to add a deeper level of meaning to their work in this short animated video [1:12] from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding before analyzing a text.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, & Theme: Triangle...
Middle schoolers will view video documenting the real-life story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Students will complete a story elements graphic organizer. This organizer will help them distinguish various story elements...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Symbolism
React to chapter nineteen from A Lesson Before Dying to establish our initial understanding of the symbolism of the Christmas program.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: David Copperfield (Study Guide)
This site presents a study guide to Dickens' famous novel, "David Copperfield." Content includes a biography of the author, a full synopsis of the novel, a look at the use of symbolism and imagery, and a focus on Dickens' "favorite...
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: How to Change a Frog Into a Prince
In this poem, the author uses the "Frog and Prince" allusion to send a message about raising boys to turn into wonderful men.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms S Z
The third of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, S - Z, covers twenty-two terms from "Saga," to "Understatement."
SparkNotes
Sparknotes: Night
A plot overview, character list, character analysis, themes and symbols, chapter summary and analysis, quotations, a quiz, and more for Night by Elie Wiesel.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Symbol
This is a glossary entry for the term "Symbol" including definitions and examples.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Symbolism
This site from ArtLex provides an examination of the symbolist art movement discusses its characteristics, lists some of the artists associated with the movement, and provides numerous examples of paintings to view.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: A Note for Freedom
Students will identify how the bell is a symbol of freedom. View a video which discusses the history of Philadelphia and the famed Liberty Bell and listen to a replica of the bell. [01:23:00]
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Symbol Chart [Pdf]
A brief description of symbols in literature, followed by a chart. Students can use the chart to document their understanding of symbolism in a given piece of literature.
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Symbolism Art for Kids
Kids learn about the Symbolism Art movement and its major artists such as Gustav Klimt and Edvard Munch.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Symbolism: Lesson 2
A slideshow that introduces symbolism. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Symbolism."
University of Virginia Library
Prism: The Outsiders
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders and highlight characterization in blue, visualization in red, and symbolism in green.