Theme, Plot, Main Ideas, and Summary

What is the definition of theme?

• Sequence of events

• The subject

• The main points

• The message / lesson learned

What is the difference between theme and main idea of the story?

• A story has several main ideas but also more than one theme.

• Author tells you the theme. You use clues to find the main idea.

• Main idea is what the story is about. Theme is the universal message.

• There is no difference. They're the same.

Friendship helps people get through hard times. This is an example of _______

• plot

• theme

• fable

• main idea

What is a summary?

• Retells the main events of the story in a shorter version.

• Tells the people in the story

• Tells where the story takes place

• Tells us the theme of the story

What parts of the story do you need to include in your summary?

• Beginning and Middle

• Beginning and End

• Beginning, Middle, and End

• Middle and End

What does SOMEBODY stand for?

• Who is the story about?

• What is the problem?

• How does the problem get solved?

• The events that led up to the resolution.

What does WANTED stand for?

• What did the main character want?

• What did the author want?

• What did the author need?

• What did the main characters say?

What does the BUT stand for?

• Explain how the story ended

• Why does the main character change their mind?

• Explain how the story began

• Explain the problem of the story

What does THEN stand for?

• How the story ends. All questions answered.

• How did the characters meet?

• How did the characters get home?

• What is the setting?

What does the SO stand for?

• What is the setting?

• What the main character did to solve the problem?

• What was the problem?

• Who the main character?