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What is the setting of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel?

• 2020 in a suburb of a large city

• Popperville

• The setting begins in a big city and the setting ends in Popperville

• The year 1990

Check all that are a part of the setting

• Popperville

• The big city

• A town dump where steam shovels are left to rust and fall apart

• A little boy's house

What is a major part of the plot in the story?

• Mike loves the new steam shovels

• Mary Ann, Mike's Steam shovel, is becoming obselete. She is no longer useful because of the new gas shovels

• Mary Ann is a red steam shovel

• Mike marries Mary Ann

How is the plot resolved in the end?

• Mike says goodbye to Mary Ann

• Mary Ann becomes a furnace in the new town hall

• Mary Ann falls apart

• The little boy in the story gets to keep Mary Ann in his backyard

Which choices below are good themes for this story?

• Friends are friends forever

• Friends stick together

• Don't waste parts of old machines

• New doesn't always mean better

Do you feel like you understand what a theme is in a story

• I got it, Mr. H

• I think I understand

• Maybe - I need some help

• I am lost and don't understand. Please help me!

What is a theme?

• What the author wants the reader to take away from the story

• A lesson from the story

• What the illustrations show you

• The title