Literary Elements: Theme Tiffany M. Bishop Eastwood Middle School 7th Grade Language Arts

CCRS: Anchor Standards we will: RL. 2. Determine a theme or central ideas in text and analyze its development ; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. RL. 1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text explicitly says as well as inferences drawn from the text.

I CAN:

We will do this by: Before Activity ~ Question/Interview During Activity ~ quadrant cards After Activity ~ 4 point summary

Before Activity You told one person a secret, and they promised they would not tell anyone else. When you all get to p.e. you over hear you classmates discussing the same situation that your friend swore to secrecy. How would you feel and what lesson did you learn?

During Activity Using the typing paper fold your paper hotdog and hamburger – you need four squares.

Quadrant Card Theme Definition Examples Added Focus

Theme is: The central idea or lesson learned about life that an author conveys in literature.

Examples of Theme : Friendship Courage Hope Trust Justice Violence Race-relations Love Freedom Childhood Survival Growing up Family

Let’s Practice: Using the text that you have in front of you: 1. Determine the theme. 2. Justify your answer by citing 3 details as evidence from the text to support your answer.

After Activity: In the center of a sticky note write the word “theme.” In each corner of the paper – write down one thing that is related to theme that we discovered through the lesson.

1 1. 2. Theme 4. 3.

Using Each of the Four Points Write a 4 sentence paragraph explaining how each of those points are related to Theme.