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Skill Building:
Holes by Louis Sachar
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:
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word
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meaning and example
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what to draw
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question to answer
(you may draw your answer, too)
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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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