Ready Text Lesson 8 Theme RL2 Zel the Gentle Donkey

Multiple Choice

Which detail in the first part of the story explains why Madame

Charity is cruel to Zel?

• Zel does not walk to the market as fast as she is able to.

• Madame Charity is always angry and mean.

• Madame Charity does not have enough sugar and rice to sell.

• Everyone in town loves Zel because she is pleasant and kind.

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pinches ​

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every time she starts to ​

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at Zell. When Madame Charity ​

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, she is not yelling at ​

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​Touloulou pinches Madame Charity every time she starts to yell at Zell. l When Madame Charity cries out in pain, she is not yelling at Zell.

Multiple Choice

What is the central message of this story?

• Honesty is the best policy.

• Kindness gets better results than anger.

• Things are not always as they appear.

• Beware of strangers.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the story is most important to the central

message of the story?

• "Madame Charity, you should get up earlier.’”

• "Then she got angry and yelled at Zel. . . .”

• “From that day on, Madame Charity tried not to raise her

  voice in anger."

• “Today he felt sorry for her.”

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the word market as it is used in this sentence

from the story?

Every Saturday, Madame Charity sold sugar and rice

at a market.

• a store where food and spices are bought

• a place where people buy and sell things

• a street fair where people gather

• a bank where money is exchanged

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The ​

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seller promises to awaken ​

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at 6 am. The fruit ​

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offers to fix Madame Charity's ​

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. Madame Charity begins acting more ​

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at the market.

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fish

Madame Charity

seller

ankle

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​The fish seller promises to awaken Madame Charity at 6 am. The fruit seller offers to fix Madame Charity's ankle. Madame Charity begins acting more kindly at the market.

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The story shows that ​

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can cause good things to happen. At the start of the story, Madame Charity is ​

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. Then the ​

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are kind to her. Their ​

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help Madame Charity realize she should be more kind, and when she does she she is ​

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rice and sugar.

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being kind to others

very angry and never kind

fish and fruit sellers

actions

able to sell more

The story shows that being kind to others can cause good things to happen. At the start of the story, Madame Charity is very angry and never kind. Then the fish and fruit sellers are kind to her. Their actions help Madame Charity realize she should be more kind, and when she does she she is able to sell more rice and sugar.

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By ​

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the central message (or ​

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) of a story, I can better ​

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the ​

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and why they do what they ​

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​By identifying the central message (or theme) of a story, I can better understand the characters and why they do what they do.

Match

Match the following

• the lesson the author wants us to learn

• other names for theme

• key details

• author

• characters actions and their consequences

theme

central message

lesson

moral

important information in a story

writes the story

use these things to help find the theme

• theme

• central message

  lesson

  moral

• important information in a story

• writes the story

• use these things to help find the theme