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Symbolism Graphic Organizer for The Pedestrian

Ray Bradbury's The Pedestrian anchors a lesson-plan bundle: guided Oral Cloze and choral reading, a worksheet with answer key, and literary graphic organizers tied to a Theme PowerPoint.
Grades
Grades 9–12, High School
File type
Multiple File Types

Updated Oct 19, 2026

Subject
ELA, Literature
Topic
literature, short story
Resource types
Lesson Plans, Teacher Tools

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What's inside this resource

The Pedestrian: Comprehensive Lesson Plans & Resources for Ray Bradbury's Short Story This resource provides everything educators need to teach Ray Bradbury's thought-provoking short story "The Pedestrian" to secondary students. It includes a full lesson plan with pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading activities to facilitate analysis and discussion. To aid comprehension, graphic organizers and PowerPoints visually reinforce key literary concepts like theme, characterization, plot, figurative language, and symbolism. With multiple file types offered, the materials are easily adapted for whole-class instruction, small groups, or independent learning. This versatile resource allows teachers to scaffold the rich themes and imagery in Bradbury's dystopian vision of the future while building students' literacy skills.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify elements of theme in The Pedestrian
  • Make predictions and inferences about a short story
  • Discuss how technology shapes the world of the story

Skills covered

  • Guided reading — following the text through Oral Cloze and choral reading
  • Inference — answering write-pair-share questions on the worksheet
  • Theme analysis — completing a graphic organizer alongside the Theme PowerPoint

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Where does the story text come from?

The lesson plan is written for use with the story from a class textbook or anthology; the text itself is not part of the bundle.

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