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Literature-based Skill Building:
Holes by Louis Sachar

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Chapter 35 - 37

Symbols

A symbol is something real that stands for an idea. In literature, a symbol is often a real, concrete thing (something you can actually see, like a boat) that stands for an abstract idea (like traveling or escaping) that the thing would make you think of.

A truck that is "like a rock" uses the rock as a symbol. The truck salespeople would like you to think of the way rocks last a long time when you think of their truck. Durability is the idea the rock stands for.___

Choose one of these objects that are important in Holes, and think of an idea that it could stand for:

Shovels ______________________________

Boat __________________________________

What are three things the shovel was used for in chapters 35 and 36? Draw or describe them.

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Perseverance:

What are three things that make Stanley and Zero's trip difficult and require perseverance to overcome?

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Vocabulary:

 

word

meaning and example

what to draw

question to answer

(you may draw your answer, too)

increment

A small measure; a very little distance. An inch is a small increment of distance; an ounce or a gram would be a small increment of weight.

A ruler with small increments marked off

What are two *large* increments?

gash

a deep cut

A picture with a gash cut into it

What are three things that could be used to make a gash in something?

frail

without much strength; easy to break;

a frail animal

What are two things that could make a person frail?

 

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