Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird Literary Elements
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird by Toni Cade Bambara
Lesson Plans by Rebecca Ray
“Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” is a short story about the narrator and her family's life in the deep south. The family must deal with many changes that arise after two men with cameras invade their privacy to make a documentary. Engage students with premade activities and lessons from Storyboard That!
![Blues Ain't No Mockingbird - Literary Conflict in "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird"](http://cdn.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-cells/991451/cell-col-0-row-0-w400.png "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird - Literary Conflict in "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird"")
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![Blues Ain't No Mockingbird - Important Themes of "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird"](http://cdn.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-cells/991607/cell-col-0-row-0-w400.png "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird - Important Themes of "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird"")
![Blues Ain't No Mockingbird - "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" Character Traits](http://cdn.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-cells/991640/cell-col-0-row-1-w400.png "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird - "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" Character Traits")
![Blues Ain't No Mockingbird - Local Color and Dialect in "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird"](http://cdn.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-cells/991718/cell-col-0-row-1-w400.png "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird - Local Color and Dialect in "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird"")
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Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird Literary Elements | Have students illustrate literary elements in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Storyboard Text
- SIMILE
- ANECDOTE
- CLICK
- IMAGERY
- "Then Granddaddy’s other hand flies up like a sudden and gentle bird, slaps down fast on top of the camera and lifts off half like it was a calabash cut for sharing."
- ““I was on this bridge one time,” she started off. “Was a crowd cause this man was goin to jump, you understand. And a minister was there and the police and some other folks. His woman was there, too.””
- “The old ladle dripping rum into the Christmas tins, like it used to drip maple syrup into the pails when we lived in the Judson’s woods, like it poured cider into the vats when we were on the Cooper place, like it used to scoop buttermilk and soft cheese when we lived at the dairy”
- "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" Literary Elements
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