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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Hurst, James. "The Scarlet Ibis." Adapted from: Elements of Literature: Third Course. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 2003. http://www.burkefocus.org/uploads/1/1/0/6/110610321/thescarletibistext.pdf

• The story opens at the end of summer, and a scarlet ibis sits in a bleeding tree.

• The yard around the tree shows signs that summer is ending, and "the last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softy the names of our dead" (1).

• The first-person narrator indicates that in the narrative present, a significant amount of time has elapsed since this end-of-summer scene.

• As the narrator speaks, he sits in that same house noting the changes the yard has undergone in that time--a grindstone, for instance, now sits where the bleeding tree once...

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