9.12 Theme Across Texts

THEME ACROSS TEXTS

The heart of the story​

THEME

The heart of the story​

By Candy Fuentes

​Students remember Guji Guji and I Lost My Hat? Well there are lessons we can learn from these stories.

​Today I want to teach you that fiction stories teach us lessons. Sometimes we can identify them by small seeds like friendship, then we think what about friendship does the author want us to learn? Or what did the character learn about friendship?

Open Ended

What is the theme of this clip? Remember a theme is a sentence.

​What did the character learn? How did the character grow or change?

​What did the character learn? How did the character grow or change?

The main theme of _______(title of book) is _________________________________(theme in a sentence). I know this because _____(evidence).

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Independent Reading

Writing Goal: I can take a previous idea I have generated and use it to flash draft.

Remember your generating ideas?

​TIPS

: 1:Aim to get a first draft down reguardless of whether it is your best writing or not.

2: Relive the story in your mind's eyes before starting to write.

3: Listen and watch as the story unfolds in your mind, try to remember what you can't quite recall.

4: Work silently and intently, hold yourselves to the highest standard.

I want to remind you of is that writers fill themselves up with the true thing that happened, recall how they've decided to start the story, and then, keeping their mind fixed intently non the mental movie of what happened, they let their pens fly down the page. When they do this, they finish a whole draft (or close to a whole draft) in one sitting.

​Flash Draft - Personal Narrative 9.12

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