Analyzing Ideas and Themes: A Raisin in the Sun 10/26/21 - 11/10/21

A Raisin in the Sun

by Miana Edmonds

​HFL 5 Learning Target: Analyzing Ideas and Themes

1.      Create a Dictionary Using Google Docs and Define:  topic, detail, main idea, paragraph, person vs. nature, person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, section, text, theme, topic, chapter, character, detail, event, paragraph, section

2.      Explain how specific sections of a text strengthen a main idea or theme

3.      Analyze the development of an idea or theme over the course of a text.

4.      Decide which of several possible themes in a text is the strongest​

​HFL 4 Learning Target: Analyzing Ideas and Themes

1.      Create a Dictionary Using Google Docs and Define:  category, central idea, detail, develop, main idea, theme, section

2.      List the main events that occur in a text in order.

3.      Describe how a main idea or theme develops over the course of a text.

4.      Take a position on which main idea or theme is the strongest in a text by finding evidence to support several different main ideas or themes.

​HFL 3 Learning Target: Analyzing Ideas and Themes

1.  Create a Dictionary Using a Google Tool and Define: caption, chapter, character, concept, conflict, description, detail, develop, event, example, fiction, figure, heading, image, main idea, narrative, nonfiction, paragraph, process, progression, quote, reference, setting, summarize, topic, theme, moral

2. Identify the central characters, setting, and conflict of a narrative.

3. Summarize a text by explaining how multiple details work together to communicate the main idea.

3a) Identify details in a text that develop a theme.

4.      Decide how a theme of a text would change if a particular event or outcome were different.

​HFL 2 Learning Target: Analyzing Ideas and Themes

1.      Create a Dictionary Using a Google Tool and Define: convey, topic, detail, event, idea, keyword, linking word, main idea, paragraph, support, text feature, title, topic, action, cause, character, detail, event, fairytale, folktale, lesson, main character, message, moral

2.      Explain what a main idea is and how the author conveys the main idea.

3.      Explain the message, lesson, or moral in a fairytale, folktale, or myth.

4.      Decide what theme or message a book is trying to communicate about a specific topic or characteristic.

​HFL 1 Learning Target: Analyzing Ideas and Themes

​1.      Create a character web for A Raisin in the Sun

2.      Create a Dictionary Using Google Docs and Define: detail, illustration, important, main topic, paragraph, repeat, topic, character, detail, feeling, lesson, interact, message, story, resolve, character web (include the part of speech and an image that represents the word)

2a)Describe how a problem in a text is resolved.

2b) Identify important details in a text.

3.      Identify the main idea of a text.

4.      Decide how a sequence of events develops a specific message