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What is a strategy that you can use to determine the Theme, Lesson, or Moral in Fiction?

• Use mainly what you know about life.
• Look at how the main character changes and what they learn.
• Ask yourself Who or What, Has is or does.
• Use your background knowledge and text evidence.

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a message or insight about life

• act
• theme
• set
• stage directions

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In "The Tortoise and the Hare", what is the theme?

• The turtle and the bunny have a race.
• Take things slow and do them right.

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A mother locks her daughter in tall tower to keep her safe from danger… or to keep her long hair all to herself.

• Theme
• Main Idea

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RL3 Daisy is an important character in the novel because she represents:

• A friend for Auggie

• Unconditional love

• Loneliness

• Responsibility

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RL2 The main topics of this novel are

• kindness, diversity, self-importance

• fear and losing hope

• good vs. bad

• wealth and power

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The store carried quite a bit of stuff – sugar, flour, dried fruits, canned goods and such on one side. On the other side of the yard, they carried goods, coats, caps, aprons and the like of that on the other. It wasn’t a big store like Hirsch Brothers Store up the street. Never would be, people guessed, that it would have gone out of business long ago if Mr. Baumer hadn’t let it. He had started the store just two years before and, the way things were, worked himself close to death.

He was at the high desk at the end of the grocery counter when I came in the next afternoon. He had his eyeshades on and his pencil was in hand instead of behind his ear and his glasses were roosted on the nose that Slade had twisted. He didn’t hear me open and close the door or hear my feet as I walked back to him, and I saw he wasn’t doing anything with the pencil but holding it over paper. I stood and studied him for a minute, seeing a small, stooped man with a little belly bulging through his unbuttoned vest. He was a man you wouldn’t remember from meeting once. There was nothing in his looks to set itself in your mind unless maybe it was his chin, which was a small hill in the gentle plain of his face.

While I watched him, he lifted his hand and ran his fingers along his nose. Then he saw me. His eyes had that kind of tired look that seems to go with age or illness, though he wasn’t really old or sick, either. He brought his hand down quickly and picked up the pencil, but then he saw I was still looking at the nose, and finally he sighed and said, “That Slade.”

Just the sound of the name brought Slade to my eye. I could vision him slouched in front of the bar, and I saw him and his string of horses coming down the road. I could see Slade’s whip lifting hair from a horse because it would sting so badly. I had heard people say that Slade could make a horse scream with that whip.

What is something that we can infer from reading this passage?

• The boy and the man are friends.

• The boy and Slade are friends.

• The man's store was created by Slade.

• The man's store went out of business because of Slade.

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What all have you learnt from this story ?

• learning has no age bar

• wealth is of no use if you are uneducated

• we can overcome any obstacle if we are determined to do it

• if we are rich we should not get educated.

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What is the THEME of this story:

A long time ago there was a king who wanted nothing but gold. He wished everything he touched turned into gold. A fairy made this wish come true. Then anything he tried to eat turned into gold, so he starved to death.

• Don't be greedy.

• United we stand; divided we fall.

• Don't steal.

• Respect your elders.

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Could this be a theme of a story?

"It's important to play with your sisters and brothers."

• Yes

• No

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