1. Pre-writing: Take out your genre card and chapter summaries
Select one idea, character, or scene that really stuck out to you in reading the core text and write a paragraph explaining why that one thing stuck with you (what experiences, views, or beliefs you have that connected you to that scene).
If you did not like any of the scenes in the text, then write why you are not interested in them.
Please do this activity on the handout you received and put that handout in you writer’s notebook.

2. Prompt
How does the author use characters in The Demon King to develop the theme?
Discuss outline and rubric in packet.

3. Objectives
By the end of the period, you should have reflected on what you are interested in writing about this text, generate a theme statement you plan on using, and identify two pieces of evidence from the text to support that theme.

4. Themes Make sure your name is on the top of the handout.
Generate 3 themes based on what you just wrote.

5. Evidence
Select the theme you want to write about (the one you are interested in).
Write one piece of evidence in support of it.

6. Evidence
Take your phone, and go find one other piece of evidence to support your theme.

7. Theme and Evidence Find your original paper.
Take pictures of any evidence that you might want to use to support your theme. You cannot steal someone else’s theme, but you might like to use their evidence.
Review the rubric together.
Use this to guide your rough draft, which is due Monday.

8. Check Yourself/Rough Draft Check
Mark your claim with a C. Does your claim answer the prompt?
Mark you context with an X (2). Does it summarize the story to help your reader understand?
Mark your evidence with an E (2). Does your evidence have proper formatting?
Mark your reasoning with an R (2). Does your reasoning contain two strong verbs? Does it relate to the quotation and the prompt? Is it at least two to three sentences long?
If you don’t have two quotations, then find them now.

9. Revisions for Character theme prompt for Core novel
Purpose: To revise your constructed responses for content and style.
Revisions will be collected after the due date and will be graded by item. It will go on the second marking period.

10. Topic Sentence Does your topic sentence look like the following?
In The Demon King, Cinda Williams Chima develops the theme that ___________ through the protagonists Han and Raisa.
How can we change it up so that you distinguish your paper from everyone else’s but still answer the question?

11. Example
In the text, it says that “John walked dejectedly from the back of the room to the front, knowing exactly what was coming next” (Snatt 45).
“Running softly across the tree tops, Jenna eyed her target and calculated her next move” (Snatt 65).

12. Quotation blending
Level I: Use a dialogue tag like “suggested” or “explained.”
Atticus commented in response to "climb into their skin and walk around in it" (Lee 205).
Level II: Incorporating the quote into the actual structure of the sentence (so that the quote completes the sentence seamlessly.
Atticus believed that though Jem and Scout “might hear…ugly talk about [the case],” they should “keep [their] fists down” and avoid conflict (76).
Atticus Finch believed that the key to knowing others was only achieved by "[climbing] into [their] skin and walk[ing] around in it" (30).
The Tom Robinson case “[affected Atticus] personally”, but through it all he implored his children to “hold their head[s] high,” for he believed in his cause (76).

13. Quotation Blending
Level III: Using a semicolon to introduce the quote. You need subject and predicate that work together on either side.
Atticus always had the best insight into what people should do in life; he would say “climb into their skin and walk around in it” (Lee 76-77).
Level IV: Using a colon to introduce the quote. You need a subject and predicate that work together before the quotation.
Atticus always had the best insight into what people should do in life: “climb into their skin and walk around in it” (Lee 76-77).

14. Example
The quote is about how Micah overreacts to Raisa, who was in a meeting with Amon. Amon is Raisa’s friend and her wanting to talk to him is natural. Amon was confident enough to step in to stop Micah, but he is not always going to be there for her. Then, Raisa being in trouble with her mother about the meeting makes her upset. She is wondering how her mother can accuse her of meeting secretly with Amon when her mother is a hypocrite too. Readers are aware that the meeting between Raisa and Amon was innocent but the Queen does not see it that way. The Queen is worried about Raisa, as a mother should be, but she is overstepping her bounds. She is distrustful of her daughter but should not be. The Queen is just wrong.
What do you notice about the above passage.?

15. Analysis Vs. Summary
To analyze means to connect the part to the whole (by comparing or contrasting it).
Before beginning to revise your reasoning section to include more analysis, I want you to generate questions based on the evidence you selected. Here are some examples:
Why did the character use that tone of voice?
What is the author doing here? What is her intention in this scene?
What information has been omitted by the author or the characters?
What is the significance of (insert word or object here)?
Do certain words or elements repeat? Why do they repeat?
What connotations do the words have in the quotation I selected?
Are there similarities or differences between this scene and others prior to it?
What words does the author use here to indicate the development of an idea?
How does this quotation compare with the other you included?
How are the sentences in this scene structured? Are there any interruptions to the flow of the story?

16. To Be Verbs
Strategy 1: Replace the to be verb with a better verb. Think about what the subject is doing, not existing as. A better verb is usually lurking in the rest of the sentence.
The fire is as big and expansive as Micah’s spell.
The fire expanded across the Spirit Mountains, as far as the eye could see, because of Micah’s spell.

17. To Be Verbs
Strategy 2: Convert− Start the sentence differently to see if this helps eliminate a “to be” verb. Pay attention to who is doing the action (the subject) and pair that with the verb that subject is doing.
Charles Schulz was the creator of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
Charles Schulz created the Peanuts cartoon strip.

18. To be verbs
Strategy 3: Combine−Look at the sentences before and after the one with the “to be” verb to see if combining the sentences will eliminate the “to be” verb.
The child was sad. The sensitive child was feeling that way because of the news story.
The news story saddened the sensitive child.

19. To Be verbs
Strategy 4: Combine—Using appositives, you can get rid of to be verbs. Appositives are nouns or phrases that replace the noun that comes before it. The two stand as equals.
The most important literary element in the fantasy genre is the exposition because it establishes the conflicts for the rest of the novel.
Exposition, the most important literary element, defines the fantasy genre because it establishes the conflicts for the rest of the novel.

20. Conclusion What does it mean to conclude?
You can mention some of the characters or examples you would have talked about if you had more time. That way, the reader has something to think about after the paper is over.
You can draw an additional conclusion based on the evidence you provided (other characters that maybe function in the same way the character you wrote about does).
You can mention other topics that that character develops and that if you had more time, maybe you would have addressed.
You can link your hook with your conclusion (if you allude to another text, bring it back to that, for example).
You can draw a connection to another text or author that is related to the theme or characters you discussed.
You can answer why this is important to the reader.

21. Conclusion
This is how the supporting characters develop the theme in the novel The Demon King.
This is why characters are so important for the theme of the novel The Demon King.
In conclusion, the protagonists develop the theme the most in the novel The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima.

22. Example
While this essay has addressed one of the themes of The Demon King, it has by no means exhausted the multitude of examples that address the theme, nor has it discussed all of the characters. Any reader of fantasy knows the breadth of characters in a fantasy novel means that an adequate discussion of all of the characters would go on as long as the novel. However, fantasy authors know that by creating patterns and commonalities in their characters, they can explore the same theme multiple ways. The characters are like a filter on a photograph; the theme is the same– the only thing that changes is the way the character, and the reader, sees it.

23. What was helpful about the revisions today?
Revisions Exit Ticket
What was helpful about the revisions today?
What do you still need work on?