1. Thursday 04/16 A-day Friday 04/17 B-day
Students will read to determine the meanings and pronunciations of unfamiliar words and phrases.
Students will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of nonfiction texts.
Students will discuss social issues from non-fiction texts by justifying arguments with evidence from the text.
Students will edit and revise a reflective response connected to a social issue.
Vocab 6, 6-10
Notes on theme
Read Two Bad Ants
Students complete F – Short story club finding evidence for theme

2. Warm-Up: Vocabulary
Write your sentences for Study the words. After the formative: IN BIN Social Issues Response –IN BIN Social Issues Graphic Organizer – IN BIN Silent Reading

3. Social Issues Response
Must be done by the end of class today. Respond to the social issues we discussed last class. State your thesis. Support your thesis with opinion & evidence. Provide a solution/compromise for your call to action.

4. Today we will…
Understand theme. Differentiate between theme and big idea. Read a short story and identify the theme and big idea.

5. What’s The Big Idea? (And the Main Idea? And The Theme?)
Main Idea: Summary of the text. The general gist of what is going on. Big Idea: One word that explains the idea of the text. Theme: Takes the one word from big idea and explains the universal message of the story.

6. Quick Review! What are the 6 parts to the plot diagram? Exposition
Initiating Event
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
2. In which part of the plot diagram does conflict occur for the main character?

7. A universal message or truth about life
THEME
A universal message or truth about life
You can’t always get what you want

8. BIG IDEA: the overall idea; typically one to two words
(Examples: Love, Prejudice, Revenge, Circle of life, Fear, Jealousy)
THEME: the universal message or truth about life that explains the big idea
A theme is not a word, it is a sentence.
Theme is what the story teaches readers.

9. Cinderella Big IDEA: THEME: Love Good vs. Evil Individuality
Love: Love will always find its way
Good vs. Evil: Good things happen to good people
Individuality: Be true to yourself

10. Finding the Theme
Writers often express theme through what their characters learn.
Does the main character change?
Does a character realize something he or she did not know before?

11. Steps to identifying theme
Step 1: Identify the conflict. Step 2: Identify the resolution. Step 3: State the universal message in a sentence.

12. Finding the Theme Conflict helps reveal theme.
What is the conflict, or struggle between opposing forces, that the main character faces?
How is the conflict resolved?
Conflict
Resolution
Theme
Two friends find a wallet. One friend wants to return it to the owner; the other wants to keep it.
They return the wallet and share a small reward.
People are often rewarded for making the right moral decision.

13. Individual vs. Individual
occurs when two (or more) characters in a story have a disagreement. Physical or Verbal.

14. Individual vs. Nature
occurs when a character struggles to fight against problems caused by elements of his/her environment.
EX: weather, animals, plants, etc.

15. Individual vs. Self
occurs when a character in a story has a problem that is going on inside of them.
Ex: opposite thoughts, feelings or positions in the character’s mind.
Should I do homework?
Should I finish my video game?

16. More CONFLICT!
The following are conflict s to be aware of but you do not need to write down.

17. Individual vs. Society
When a character goes against the norms of society

18. Individual vs. Supernatural
Conflict with something that exists outside the natural world
EX: zombies, aliens, ghosts, etc.

19. Individual vs. Technology
Character struggles with something that is man made
EX: computers, robots, etc.

20. Conflict Example
THINK : Can you think of an example of Character Conflict from a previous book you have read? PAIR: Turn to your table and discuss the examples you remember from your previously read books. SHARE: Share with the class, what do you remember?

21. TWO BAD ANTS
Read along to this short story by Chris Van Allsburg. Keep an eye out for Main Idea, Conflict, Characters, and Theme.

22. Two bad Ants
Complete the formative on the last page of your packet and turn it into the in-bin before you leave.

23. Choose a short story:
The Cat Who Thought She was Dog and the Dog Who Thought He Was a Cat (5)
The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter (172)
Ribbons (524)
The Treasure of Lemon Brown (532)
Seventh Grade (122)
All Summer in a Day (288)
Amigo Brothers (352)