1. A Land Remembered: Theme Activity

2. 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

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

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

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

6. Loss
Death
Nature
Time

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.