How do you determine the theme of a story?

1. How do you determine the theme of a story?

2. In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the theme of a myth by identifying its purpose.

3. A myth is a story, usually of Greek origin, with gods that teach a lesson or explain a natural or social phenomenon.

4. Not taking time at the end of a story to think about the theme or message the story is sending to the readers. I finished reading. Guess I’m all done!

5. What is the purpose of this myth? • Notes from myth: • Arachne • best weaver • arrogant • challenges authority • changes at the end • Notes from myth: • Athena • Goddess • threatens Arachne • morphs Arachne into a spider

6. Myth A story, usually of Greek origin, with gods that teach a lesson or explain a natural or social phenomenon • Purpose: • Teach a lesson? • Explain a natural or social phenomenon? • Theme? • You shouldn’t think of yourself as better than others. • How spiders came to be.

7. Review notes on text, and ask • yourself, “What is the purpose of this story?” 1 2 • Jot ideas on a sticky note. 3 Use your ideas to determine the message to the reader.

8. In this lesson, you have learned how to determine the theme of a myth by identifying its purpose.

9. What is the theme of the story, “The Legend of the Corn”?

10. Possible extension activities that I can think of include: • Identifying themes of well-known fairytales and stories • Identifying theme of a well-known movie. • Could there be another theme to the story Arachne? What is it? • Describe one extension activity here…

11. Describe another extension activity here…

12. Describe a third extension activity here if you have a good one…

13. We will insert the name of the text here. What is the theme of “X” text?