The Things You Can Read: Teaching Theme

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Teaching Theme

DIRECTIONS FOR FOLDABLE BOOKLET ON THEME

PAGE 1 Cover-Title: Theme in Review

PAGE 2-Definition for Theme

PAGES 3-8 Title & Author & a Theme for the NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, PLAY, and POEMS we have read and studied in-depth in class:[Pick only six (6) to use in your FOLDABLE BOOKELT]

NEXT: ROUGH DRAFT-On a piece of notebook paper write your titles and authors and sample themes.

LAST STEP: MAKE YOUR FOLDABLE...IS IT ATTRACTIVE? IT SHOULD BE!

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost (POEM)

"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe (POEM)

"Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes

"The Last Leaf" by O Henry

A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Adapted by Israel Horovitz Based on Charles Dicken's Novella

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Milkaelsen

That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton

Devils Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

SAMPLE THEMES: