Theme and Supporting Evidence Quiz

What is theme?

• Direct lines from a text that you can use to support your arguments.

• Important information that tells more about the overall idea of a story.

• An idea about life or human nature that an author is trying to share with readers. Could be sentence.

• What we figure out based on experiences.

What is central idea?

• Direct lines from a text that you can use to support your arguments.

• Important information that tells more about the overall idea of a story.

• An idea about life or human nature that an author is trying to share with readers. Could be sentence.

• What we figure out based on experiences.

What is an inference?

• Direct lines from a text that you can use to support your arguments.

• Important information that tells more about the overall idea of a story.

• An idea about life or human nature that an author is trying to share with readers. Could be sentence.

• What we figure out based on experiences.

What is textual evidence?

• Direct lines from a text that you can use to support your arguments.

• Important information that tells more about the overall idea of a story.

• An idea about life or human nature that an author is trying to share with readers. Could be sentence.

• What we figure out based on experiences.

Read the text.

What is the theme of the passage?

• Differences of opinion create problems.

• Family should always be there to help.

• If they really want to help, teachers should just do all the work.

• Hard work pays off.

What evidence supports your understanding of the theme, "Hard work pays off,"?

• Even though she felt frustrated, she continued to go to class week after week.

• Georgia decided to take a sewing class.

• "Clearly I'm just terrible at sewing!" she complained.

• Georgia felt very frustrated when she couldn't sew a straight line on the first day.

Read the text.

What is the theme of the passage?

• Dreams come true when you go to parties.

• It is important to be there for your family.

• Best friends shouldn't have parties when their family is sick.

• Trust in your friends and they will help you.

What evidence helped you determine the theme, "It is important to be there for your family,"?

• I know you've been very excited about this party.

• Grandma is really sick.

• Greg had been looking forward to his best friend's party for over a month.

• It's not like this is the last party I'll ever be invited to and Grandma would be so sad if I didn't come.

Using your PDF in Mrs. McKinney's Google Classroom, look at the text, "The Grinding Stone That Ground Flour by Itself."

How do the events build to support the central idea?

• When Spider learns of the stone, Kofi selfishly tries to keep it for himself.

• Because of his hunger, Spider tries to learn the secret of Kofi's well-being.

• Because of his greed, Spider is suspicious of Kofi and then steals from him.

• When Kofi shows him the stone, Spider hurries to take it home to feed his family.

Using the same passage, which summarizes the theme of the selection?

• A trustworthy friend is hard to find.

• Good things do not come from bad actions.

• Some creatures are more honest than others.

• Special things should not be shared with others.