Theme

What does the message mean?

• The main idea

• The central idea of the story.

• The life lesson.

• It is the point of view.

What does the hidden message mean?

• It is given to you by the author at the beginning of the story.

• It is not given, you have to infer what the author is telling you.

• It is the central idea of the story. It is the main action.

• It is the point of view of the story. It is view point by which the story is told.

Why can we compare the filling inside of the cupcake to a theme statement?

• You cannot see the point of view. You have to use your inferecing skills.

• It is the main idea, so you have to read the first sentence to get the theme.

• Theme is not related to anything but reading chapter books.

• You cannot see either one until you dive into a book or a cupcake.

Theme is a universal statement. Meaning, you can use the same statement across more then one book or article.

• True

• False