The Scarlet Ibis 2nd by Dana Thames https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s For each of the three categories, dig back into the text of the short story and find at objects, items, or descriptions that contain that subject matter. en-us 2021-11-12 14:41:59 UTC 2025-12-08 12:14:21 UTC hello@padlet.com "... the oriole nest in the elm was untenanted and rocked back and forth like an empty cradle." dana_thames https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1886795111 2021-11-12 14:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1886795111 "Daddy had Mr. Heath, the carpenter, build a little mahogany coffin for him." (Mahogany is a reddish-brown wood.) dana_thames https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1886797473 2021-11-12 14:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1886797473 "The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softly the names of our dead." dana_thames https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1886800752 2021-11-12 14:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1886800752 "It's a great big red bird!" yvonnek362 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891607275 2021-11-15 15:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891607275 "Within a few months, Doodle had learned to walk well and his go-cart was put up in the barn loft (it is still there) beside his little mahogany coffin. " gabriellc722 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891607538 2021-11-15 15:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891607538 "dead birds is bad luck" savannahf427 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891607824 2021-11-15 15:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891607824 "It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. " yvonnek362 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891609191 2021-11-15 15:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891609191 "dead birds is back luck" savannahf427 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891609775 Doodle then later dies after messing with the dead bird]]> 2021-11-15 15:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891609775 "For along time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain." elenad395 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610305 2021-11-15 15:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610305 "Specially red dead birds!" gabriellc722 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610345 2021-11-15 15:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610345 yadirar622 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610521 "The doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn't."]]> 2021-11-15 15:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610521 "Finally I went back and found him huddled beneath a red nightshade bush beside the road. He was sitting on the ground, his face buried in his arms, which were resting on his drawn-up knees." laneyd765 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610897 (Nightshade bushes are red)]]> 2021-11-15 15:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610897 "On the topmost branch, a bird the size of a chicken..." emmam539 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610973 2021-11-15 15:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891610973 "One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we all had believed he would die." hectorp825 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891611124 2021-11-15 15:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891611124 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891611365 "I made him swim until he turned blue and row until he couldn't lift an oar. Wherever we went, I purposely walked fast, and although he kept up his face turned red and his eyes became glazed." ]]> 2021-11-15 15:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891611365 schuyl934 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891612104 "He was born when I
 
as six and was, from the outset, a disappointment. He seemed all head, with a 

tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old man's. Everybody thought he was going to die. "
]]> 2021-11-15 15:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891612104 "A scarlet ibis! How many miles it had traveled to die like this, in our yard, beneath the bleeding tree." gabriellc722 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891612506 2021-11-15 15:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891612506 " Limply, he fell backwards onto the earth. He had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red." elenad395 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891613167 2021-11-15 15:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891613167 " Trembling He'd push himself up, turning first red then a soft purple" janiaw846 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891613590 2021-11-15 15:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891613590 "For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain." laneyd765 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891613726 2021-11-15 15:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891613726 "It was covered with a film of Paris green sprinkled to kill the rats, and screech owls had built a nest inside it. " hectorp825 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891613887 2021-11-15 15:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891613887 "He seemed all head, with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old mans" audreyg823 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891614497 2021-11-15 15:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891614497 "It was covered with a film of Paris green sprinkled to kill the rats..." emmam539 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891615561 2021-11-15 15:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891615561 "speaking softly the names of our dead" jaylent567 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617203 2021-11-15 15:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617203 When I made him touch the casket, he screamed. juliad429 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617360 2021-11-15 15:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617360 ""What is it?" he asked. At that moment the bird began to flutter, but the wings were uncoordinated, and amid much flapping and a spray of flying feathers, it tumbled down, bumping through the limbs of the bleeding tree and landing at our feet with a thud" laneyd765 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617559 2021-11-15 15:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617559 schuyl934 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617595 "Don't go leave me, Brother," he cried
, and he leaned toward the coffin. His hand, trembling, 

reached out, and when he touched the casket he screamed. A screech owl flapped out of the box into our 

faces, scaring us and covering us with Paris green."
]]> 2021-11-15 15:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617595 "He had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt were stained brilliant red." maryferb696 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617717 2021-11-15 15:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617717 " The bird croaked loudly again" janiaw846 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617787 2021-11-15 15:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617787 REDE danielh667 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617883 “tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar”

]]> 2021-11-15 15:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617883 ""Dead birds is bad luck," said Aunt Nicey, poking her head from the kitchen door. "Specially red dead birds!"" elenad395 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617999 2021-11-15 15:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891617999 "Everybody thought he was going to die. Daddy had Mr. Heath, the carpenter, build a little mahogany coffin for him." abigailr242 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891618859 2021-11-15 15:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891618859 "It's a great big red bird!" yvonnek362 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891619078 2021-11-15 15:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891619078 DEAD danielh667 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891619130 “neck and the front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red”]]> 2021-11-15 15:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891619130 "Even death did not mar its grace, for it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers, and we stood around it, awed by its exotic beauty. " hectorp825 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891620330 2021-11-15 15:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891620330 "I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death." audreyg823 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891620396 2021-11-15 15:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891620396 "He lay very awkwardly, with his head thrown far back, making his vermilion neck appear long and slim". savannahf427 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891620484 2021-11-15 15:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891620484 "we'd build us a house of whispering leaves and the swamp birds would be our chickens" yadirar622 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891622110 2021-11-15 15:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891622110 allysonr868 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891622168 Even death did not mar its grace, for it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers" ]]> 2021-11-15 15:37:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891622168 " for it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers" emmam539 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891622391 2021-11-15 15:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891622391 At that moment, the bird began to flutter juliad429 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891623210 2021-11-15 15:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891623210 "Promise hung about us like the leaves, and wherever we looked, ferns unfurled and birds broke into song." audreyg823 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891624840 2021-11-15 15:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891624840 "he carried the bird around to the front of the yard and dug a hole in the flower garden" jaylent567 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891625383 2021-11-15 15:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891625383 " much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle. " abigailr242 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891626039 2021-11-15 15:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891626039 BIRD BIRD BIRD IS THE WORD danielh667 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891626157 creech owls had built a nest inside it.


]]> 2021-11-15 15:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891626157 allysonr868 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891627779 Its long, graceful neck jerked twice into an S, then straightened out, and the bird was still." ]]> 2021-11-15 15:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891627779 "Flocks of marsh crows flew by, heading inland to their roosting trees, and two regrets, squawking, arose from the oyster-rock shallows and careened away maryferb696 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891628165 2021-11-15 15:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891628165 "It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow." gavinw975 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891628312 2021-11-15 15:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891628312 "He lay very awkwardly, with his head thrown far back, making his vermillion neck appear unusually long and slim." joshd464 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891628642 2021-11-15 15:40:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891628642 "His favorite lie was about a boy named Peter who had a pet peacock with a ten-foot tail" marcom372 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891628823 2021-11-15 15:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891628823 " A screech owl flapped out of the box into our faces, scaring us and covering us with Paris green." abigailr242 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891629984 2021-11-15 15:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891629984 schuyl934 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891632339 "and the tear-blurred vision in red looked very familiar."]]> 2021-11-15 15:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891632339 "It's a scarlet ibis," or Summer was dead, but autumn had not yet been born when the ibiscame to the bleeding tree juliad429 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891632412 2021-11-15 15:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891632412 "... I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain." joshd464 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891634115 2021-11-15 15:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891634115 "I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in the red before me looked very familiar." jaylent567 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891634914 2021-11-15 15:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891634914 "sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis" schuyl934 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891635524 2021-11-15 15:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891635524 "the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar" yadirar622 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891636515 2021-11-15 15:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891636515 So I dragged him across the burning cotton field. jaylenc522 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891636882 2021-11-15 15:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891636882 "His little legs, bent sharply at the knees, had never before seemed so fragile, so thin." maryferb696 https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891652599 2021-11-15 15:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dana_thames/ouv11xfr45x6h91s/wish/1891652599