What You Will Learn
Strategies
You will be using many reading and writing strategies to complete this lesson. The key strategies that you will focus on are:
- Making inferences
- Determining important information
- Comparing and contrasting ideas
- Making connections
Goals
Here are the big ideas you will learn about in this lesson:
- Places can have symbolic meaning for people.
- Symbolic places affect people’s personal identities—their sense of who they are.
- Writers use symbolism to give meaning to their writing beyond what they have actually described.
Vocabulary
Read these words and their definitions. When you see them in the lesson, you can click on them to read the definition again.
