THEME

Learning Target: I can evaluate

Using the handout determine which side best fits you!

Title: Agriculture Documentary

DO NOW: Complete the following- What comes to you mind when you think of food now?

In two paragraphs explain how you choose and why you believe you fit that category. Provide examples.

Learning target: I can review theme and look closely at passages to identify theme

Title: FLASH BACK FRIDAY- Theme & critical reasoning

Do Now: Make sure you have a green workbook and the critical reasoning worksheet.

Learning Target

PRACTICE

Are video games beneficial to children, or harmful ? Debate the pros and cons of gaming.

PRO CON

RESOURCES

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Poems and Raps:

Write a poem or rap addressing the issue of refugees.

Cooperation is the key to success.

We can all do better when we work together.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

What is the moral lesson of this quote?

Sample responses

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Jenny hated reading class. She didn’t understand point of view or figurative language, and not knowing how to do the work frustrated her. She asked the teacher for help, but he spoke so fast and used such big words that she still couldn’t understand. The teacher asked if she understood, and she nodded her head, but she didn’t. Jenny’s friend Katie knew that Jenny was having trouble, and, rather than just giving Jenny all of the answers, Katie explained to Jenny how to solve the problems. Katie spoke clearly and at Jenny’s level, and Jenny was happy that she finally learned how to do the work. Later in the week, Katie was having trouble in math class. She didn’t understand coordinates and was really frustrated. Seeing that Katie was having problems, Jenny, who understood math very well, taught Katie coordinates. Both girls made honor roll that quarter.

Don’t ask for help unless you really need it.

Don’t play tricks on the people around you.

Once there was a mean little boy who lived in a small village. This mean little boy loved to mess with people, so one day he ran up to a sheep herder and shouted, “WOLF! WOLF! A wolf is attacking the town!” The sheep herder grabbed his staff and ran to defend the town, but realized he had been fooled when the boy started pointing and laughing at him. “Ha ha! I made you jump,” said the boy. Then the boy ran up to a farmer and shouted, “WOLF! WOLF! A wolf is attacking the town!” The farmer grabbed his pitchfork and ran to defend the town, but when the boy started pointing and laughing at him, he realized he had been tricked. As the boy went back to his family’s farm laughing about the funny trick he played, he saw a real wolf in his father’s chicken coop. As the wolf ate all of his father’s chickens, the boy screamed over and over again, “WOLF! WOLF! Please help us!” But nobody came to help him.

We’ll read each story.

Write what you think the theme is.

Write another sentence explaining what happens in the story that leads you to believe this.

• How does the small world of the story connect to the big world theme?

I will be able to examine literary pieces and identify the theme.

Common Topics of theme in Literature

• The American Dream
• The Development and Image of the Hero
• The Meaning of Freedom
• Individuality
• Death and How To Deal With It
• Religion and Faith
• The Power of One
• Human Relationship
• Liberty and Authority
• Community and Responsibility
• Challenge and Success
• Innocence and Experience
• Guilt
• Choices and Possibilities
• Friendship
• Family
• Love

Do Now:

Why is it important to break down a characters thoughts and emotions?

TITLE: THEME

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LEARNING TARGET: I will be able to define examples of literary themes.

TITLE: THEME- Langston Hughes

“Thank You, M'am" by Langston Hughes

We will be doing a close-read of this short story. Keep in mind while we are reading of possible themes.

REVIEW

What life lessons can be learned from the choices made by the characters in this story?

Name two themes from "The Necklace". After noting it in your writers sourcebook, discuss with the person sitting next to you.

A theme is not always a word, it can also be a sentence.

You don’t have to agree with the theme to identify it.

Examples

• Money cannot buy happiness.
• Don’t judge people based on the surface.

• Theme is what we can learn from a story.
• Themes must be inferred.
• Themes are about the BIG world.

Identifying Themes

• Themes are not explicit (clearly stated).
• Themes are implied.
• Themes are bigger than the story.

Theme

A theme is an overarching message in a text.

A “big idea” and is not specific to one character or one event/conflict is more than one word shows a relationship of ideas, such as cause and effect does not happen in isolation, it grows as the plot develops.