Pre Assessment on Theme

What is Theme?

• The lesson within the story.

• The people within the story.

• The time and place in the story.

• The sequence of events in the story.

Answer explanation

The theme is a life lesson, meaning, or moral message about life or human nature. In other words, theme is what the story teaches the reader.

What theme is about racism?

• Good Vs Evil

• Racial Prejudice

• Growing Up

• Courage and Bravery

What theme is about exploring the moral and ethical aspects of human nature, by contrasting characters in the story?

• Growing Up

• Racial Prejudice

• Good Vs Evil

• Courage and Bravery

What theme is about emphasizing that standing up for what is right requires both strength and fearlessness?

• Growing Up

• Courage and Bravery

• Justice vS The Law

• Knowledge and Education

What theme teaches that sometimes following the letter of the law does not provide a path to justice?

• Knowledge and Education

• Racial Prejudice

• Growing Up

• Justice Vs the Law

What theme teaches that true knowledge doesn't always come from formal classroom education?

• Knowledge and Education

• Caleb Vs Aaron B.

• Growing Up

• Racial Prejudice

What theme teaches about children experiencing a loss of innocence as they become aware of the ugly sides of life, changing their perspectives on their community as they get older?

• Good Vs Evil

• Isaiah Vs Ms. Stehle

• Growing Up

• Knowledge and Education

What book will we be reading next?

• Romeo and Juliet

• How to Kill A Mockingbird

• How to Train your Dragon

• The Hatchet