POP QUIZ: How to Find Theme

The very first step to finding theme is...

• Ask yourself what the story is about?

• Finish reading the text.

• Find the main idea

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Step 2 to finding theme is...

• Create a list of topics (ask yourself what the story is about)

• complete reading the text

• Pick a topic and that is your theme.

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Step 3 in finding a theme is...

• The topic from step 2 is your theme.

• Pick a topic from your list and answer the question "What does the text tell me about this topic?"

• Cross out "The text tells me that..." and you have your theme.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

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Step 4 in finding theme is...

• There is not a step 4.

• Cross out "The text tells me that..." and you are left with your theme.

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Theme and Main Idea are the same thing.

• True

• False

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Theme is...

• the underlying message or idea that the author implies through a story

• what the story is about

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Main Idea is...

• the underlying message or idea that the author implies through a story

• what a story is about

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A topic (i.e. love) is a theme

• True

• False

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A theme is NOT... (select all that apply)

• the topic

• the main idea

• one word

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Themes ARE... (select all that apply)

• universal

• implied

• bigger than the story

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