We began the session today discussing the meaning of the word symbol and then Cabo discussed what he thought might be symbols used in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. We discussed an important symbol in the novel, the city of Kabul. We talked about how the title of the novel is based on 17th-century poet Saib Tabrizi’s poem “Kabul.” I had Cabo read lines 15-16 from the poem, “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs/ And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.” His poem is a love song to the city of Kabul. Cabo did a great job of comparing the poem to the novel and the characters' lives and understanding its use as a symbol in the novel. He then reviewed SAT vocabulary at the end of the session.