Theme and Central Idea

It is a time of great loss for your town. There were people who disappeared. Only your family and a family across town that are left. Those people are a rival family that play against yours in baseball, football, and soccer. Will you be the one to ask for help with this crisis or would you rather disappear with the rest of the people. What is a good theme for this short story?

• good vs. evil

• teamwork makes the dream work

• I will ask

• trusting others

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

You've been asked to a special event with your friends. They're all going, will you? What is theme for these sentences.

• yes, I'll go

• importance of family

• peer pressure

• overcoming dificulties

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Breaking News!

Ocean Man and The Woman Torch are back and tearing up the city once again will our Man of the Ocean save us again.... What is a good theme for this?

• fear of da sneks

• friendship

• overcoming differences

• good vs. evil

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

This is a time of Kings and Queens, Knights and poverty when the peasants are planning a revolt using sticks and stones. These people are determined to overthrow the crown. What is a good theme for these sentences?

• determination

• good vs. evil

• poverty

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CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Your mother just baked a peach pie that you brother really loves. He ate half of the pie and your family strongly dislikes him. What is a good theme for this?

• justice must be served

• greed gets you nowhere

• always eat the pie

• hide the pie

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

You are on a pirate ship, year 1458 and the rest of the crew has agreed to mutiny against the captain when you know that the captain is right so you fight with him. What is the theme of this story.

• every man for himself

• fight for whats right

• never rally with the crew

• jump off the ship and be eaten by dolphins

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Billy Burgerson served diners undercooked hamburgers, they got sick, sued him and he lost his business. What theme does this passage portray?

• eat your diners food

• let these people get food poisoning

• always prepare your food correctly before you eat it

• let them cook their own food

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

True or False, themes are morals

• Yes

• No

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

True or False, themes can be adjectives

• True

• False

• Yes

• No

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Yes or No, Central ideas are for fiction stories

• True

• Yes

• No

• False

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2