Bellwork: Please have out “Once Upon a Time”, your passbook, and

your writing assignment from yesterday (if not yet turned in)

Symbol

• A concrete object used to represent an idea (may be person, place, thing, event).

• Examples: Dove = peace

Hourglass = time passing

What could be a symbol for ……

• The United States

• A holy place

• Love

• Hate

• South Africa

What makes a good symbol?

Find something in this classroom to use as a symbol for Apartheid.

Explain how the object works as a symbol.

How do you find symbols in stories?

The following objects appear in “Once Upon a Time” Write down as many symbolic

meanings for each object that you can think of

in relation to Apartheid and/or South Africa.

1. The growing wall and razor bladed coils

2. The boy

3. The roses and the perfect lawn

4. The red smudge marks on the whitewash wall.

5. Narrator’s house built above S.A. mine.

Irony

Irony

• Using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or normal meaning.

• Explain the irony you see in the story “Once Upon a Time”

Situational Irony

• In “Once Upon a Time” there is a great difference between the purpose of the family’s actions and the result/outcome.

• This is “situational irony”

Irony in “Once Upon a Time”

Quote #1: In your passbook- open to next clean page (1/2 panel). Write the title of the story and the author. Select one quote that showy irony: and explain why this example fits the definition of irony.

• Quote #2: Rewrite a quote that shows a symbol: and explain why this fits the definition of a symbol.

Homework

• Read

• Complete Story Board if need be.