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Warm Up & Reminders Please tear 2-3 post-it notes into strips of paper you are able to annotate with while reading. Go to kahoot.it and get ready for a quiz REMINDER: If you do not have your spiral notebook or composition book for English by today, you will start receiving points off your six week’s notebook grade.
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Symbolism Definition: The use of one object or action to represent or suggest something else.
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Symbolic Archetypes In Creation Stories
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Symbolic Archetypes Serve as a representation of a specific person, act, deed, place or conflict. They are easily recognizable but not as common as situational archetypes. The Archetypes Include: Light vs. Darkness Water vs. Desert Heaven vs. Hell The Magic Weapon Innate Wisdom vs. Educated Stupidity Haven vs. Wilderness Supernatural Intervention Fire vs. Ice
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The Creation of Night (first reading)
* Use a star for significant information, devices, and strategies you notice. ! Use an exclamation point to indicate what you feel strongly about in the article. ? Use a question mark next for parts that are confusing or next to any information that you’d like to explore further.
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Second Reading S Use an “S” to mark anything that you think is a symbol or a symbolic archetype. I Use an “I” to mark for Imagery. Any description that appeals to the five senses.
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Writer’s Notebook Pick one of the symbolic archetypes & explain how it’s used in the myth. (You must write at least a half of page) Write a thematic statement for the Creation of Night myth Thematic statement is just stating the theme. Remember a theme is what the author wants you to learn from the story.
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