A Land Remembered: Theme Activity

Themes in A Land Remembered THEME: A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work. Struggle for Survival/ Resilience Exploitation of Nature Change Loss Racial Tensions

Struggle for Survival/ Resilience The MacIveys move from Georgia to Florida What did they do for food? What did others do for food?

Exploitation of Nature Industrial development Sol MacIvey’s role Viewpoints: Tobias vs. Zech vs. Sol Greed

Change Changes in characters How things used to be, the “good ole days” Resistance to change

Loss Death Nature Time

Racial Tensions Skillit and the former slave population Seminole Indians Tawanda and her community

Theme Tracking Activity You will be divided into 5 groups and each group will be assigned a theme. You will meet in our theme tracking group three times during the reading of the novel. One third of the way into the reading,then two thirds of the way into the reading and at the very end.

Theme Tracking Activity, Cont’d 3. In your groups, you will come up with as many examples from the story, including incidents and quotes, that show the development of your theme. 4. At the end of the novel you will create a pictorial representation of your theme and include the quotes and incidents on the poster tracing the development of the them from beginning to end.

Theme Tracking Activity, Cont’d One member from each group will be asked to “stray” to another group to present your group’s information, then he/she will return. 6. This will be repeated until every group has heard from every other group.