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
- 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.
In the classroom
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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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
- Theme
- Symbolism
- Writing style
- Inference
- Ray Bradbury
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