Theme 1

Theme

• The attitude or vibe of the story
• Message found through the story
• Universal message found only in one place
• Universal message found throughout the story

Universal

• Found in the universe
• Applies to all people or sitations
• Applies to one person in the universe
• The attitude or vibe of the story

Objective

• Without personal opinions
• With personal opinions
• A goal
• Something reachable

Personification

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• Giving non-human characteristics to humans
• Sonic sound waves
• Without personal opinions

Opinion

• Someone's view
• A fact
• Something true
• Something false

Peninsula

• Surrounded by water on all sides
• Surrounded by water on three sides
• Similar to an Island
• A special kind of pen

Cenote

• The cousin of a coyote
• Rewrite in your own words
• A sinkhole filled with water
• Universal message found throughout the story

Paraphrase

• Objecitvely give the main ideas
• Objectively rewrite in your own words
• rewrite in your own words
• Shorten to give a brief piece to get the jist

Summarize

• Objectively rewrite in your own words
• Objecitvely give the main ideas
• rewrite in your own words
• Shorten to give a brief piece to get the jist

Stanza

• A stand to stand on
• A block of writing in a poem
• A type of figurative language
• Lego blocks to build