Theme

Theme

Watch the shorts, and decide the theme and what evidence you have to support it

Multiple Choice

What's a theme in the short "For the Birds"?

• Birds are solitary creatures

• Actions have consequences

• Birds don't like each other

• Some risks are too great to take

Multiple Choice

What detail from the short supports the theme actions have consequences?

• The large bird is clearly different from the smaller birds

• The large bird is extremely excited to sit on the wire with the smaller birds

• After pecking at the large bird's feet rudely, the small birds are flung into the air and lose their feathers

Multiple Choice

What's a theme in the short "La Luna"?

• Regrets can stifle a life

• Friends are not always trustworthy

• Cheaters never prosper

• It's important to make your own way in life

Multiple Choice

What detail from the short supports the theme that it's important to make your own way in life?

• In the beginning of the film it is dark as Bambino is seeing the conflict between his father and grandfather.

• Each of the adults wanted Bambino to be like themselves but Bambino did things his own unique way instead.

• Bambino copies what both his father and grandfather do because he looks up to them equally.