Theme RL1.2

Theme RL1.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

Today we will...

• Select the sentence that accurately summarizes the major events of a paragraph or paragraphs

• Place pieces of a summary in the correct order.

• Select the correct summary of the text. 

• •Select the theme and then select words or phrases from the text that provide explicit support for the theme. 

Multiple Choice

Which is the correct order of the summary on "The Lottery"?

• C, G, D, A, E, H, B, F

• G, C, A, D, H, E, F, B

• F, B, H, E, A, D, G, C

Multiple Choice

Which sentence accurately describes the passage?

In April of 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh, under the authority of Queen Elizabeth of England, sent an expedition of seven ships carrying 600 men, half of them soldiers, to found an English colony in North America. The colony was to be used to establish an English presence in the New World as well as a base from which English privateers, or pirates, could attack and plunder Spanish treasure fleets. Raleigh’s cousin, Sir Richard Grenville, led the expedition.

• Sir Walter Raleigh was a pirate

• Spanish ships held many treasures

• Sir Walter Raleigh started the first English colony to plunder Spanish treasure ships.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence accurately summarizes the passage?

The English were not the first Europeans to land their ships on American soil. The Vikings had discovered North America in the 11th century. Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492 for Spain, and the French began expeditions to the New World in 1524. But the first English presence in North America is important because the thirteen English colonies that would later be established eventually became the country now known as the United States of America.

• Other countries landed in America before England, but England's colonies grew into the United States of America.

• Vikings are more adventurous and intelligent than the English

• The United States was founded by the French.

Multiple Choice

Which sentences accurately summarizes the passage?

In July of that year the bulk of the fleet reached a small island off the coast of Virginia that was called Roanoke. After building a small fort on the north side of the island, the colonists initiated relations with a Native American tribe that lived on the island, the Aquascogoc. These natives showed little interest in building relations with the English colonists, and they soon parted company. After this encounter, however, the English noticed that one of their silver cups had gone missing, and they attributed its disappearance to the Aquascogoc. Grenville, the English captain, was furious. He believed that the Aquascogoc had stolen the silver cup. Whether or not this was true, angry exchanges followed and soon the English burned the Aquascogoc village. The English held their fort against the subsequent attacks of the natives.

• The English settlers lived on an island.

• The English settlers at Roanoke got into a fight with natives over a small property dispute. The English burned their village and the natives attacked the English fort.

• The natives did not like the English.

Multiple Choice

What is the theme of the film "Presto"?

https://youtu.be/5Wa4gLSn8Hc

• Be patient

• Demand what you want and you will get it

• Always be kind

Open Ended

What happened in the film that indicated that was the theme?

Multiple Choice

What is the theme of the film "Geri's Game"?

https://youtu.be/uMVtpCPx8ow

• Creative problem-solving triumphs over raw talent

• Never give up

• Always stay young at heart

Open Ended

What happened in the film that indicated that was the theme?

Multiple Choice

What is the theme to the short film "Piper"?

https://youtu.be/e7v2zDZBf6g

• Walk away when you know you can not succeed

• Do not let failure defeat you; always get up and try again.

• Keep your head up

Open Ended

What happened in the film that indicated that was the theme?