Reviewing Characters, Setting, and Theme

Reviewing Characters, Setting, and Theme

Literary Text Elements

Poll

Which story that we have read have you liked the most so far?

• "King Lear"

• "William Tell"

• "Robin Hood and The Mournful Knight"

• "The Two Travelers"

• "Baseball Lessons"

Let's Review the Key Vocabulary

• Drama - a play

• Character - a person, animal, or made-up creature in a fictional story or play

• Motivations - the reasons why characters act, think, and feel as they do in the story

• Character Traits - special qualities of the characters, such as honesty or shyness

Let's Review the Key Vocabulary

• Setting - where or when a story happens

• Events - important things that happen to the characters in a story

• Problems - situations that characters go through that are hard for them

• Solutions - how the characters figure out how to solve their problems

Let's Review the Key Vocabulary

• Theme - an important message or lesson about people or life

• Infer - when you make a guess or statement based on the information you have in front of you

• When you INFER something, you are making an INFERENCE!

Poll

How do we analyze a character?

• by their words

• by their thoughts

• by their actions

• by their feelings

How do we analyze character traits?

We pay attention to the actions, words, feelings, and thoughts of each of the characters in the story.

Poll

How do we analyze a story's setting?

• by looking for details of where the events in the story occur

• by looking for details about the time the events happen

• by writing a letter to the author and waiting for a reply

• by looking at the pictures in the story

How do we analyze a story's setting?

We pay attention to the details of where the events in the story are happening and when the events are happening.

Where - location

When - time of day (afternoon) or time in history (year)

Multiple Choice

How do we analyze a story's theme?

• We pay attention to what the characters are wearing.

• We pay attention to how the setting looks.

• We pay attention to when the author wrote the story.

• We pay attention to the life lessons that the characters learn throughout the story.

How do we analyze a story's theme?

We pay attention to the moral (good or bad) lessons that the character's learn about life.

Example:

In the story of the scorpion and the frog, the scorpion ends up hurting the frog even after he said he wouldn't.

The lesson in that story is that creatures rarely change their nature.

The frog should have known that the scorpion was dangerous even if he said he wasn't.