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Themes of Elisa’s Diary

Themes of Elisa’s Diary. Unit 1, Lesson 5. Objectives for Today. Students will understand what themes are and will write them. Students will visualize story details. Students will use the Visualize Strategy to identify theme. Theme.

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Themes of Elisa’s Diary

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  1. Themes of Elisa’s Diary Unit 1, Lesson 5 Created by: M. ChristofF, Enrichment Specialist, Field Local Schools

  2. Objectives for Today • Students will understand what themes are and will write them. • Students will visualize story details. • Students will use the Visualize Strategy to identify theme.

  3. Theme • A theme is the big idea or lesson the author wants the reader to know and learn.

  4. Theme • As you read, you will use a Graphic Organizer: Inference Map to record details like the ones below to make inferences about the story’s themes. • Elisa’s Qualities • Elisa’s Motives • Elisa’s Actions • Important Lessons Elisa Learns

  5. Analyzing the Main Character • Qualities are personality traits that make a character think and act in certain ways. • A character’s motives are the reason for his or her behavior. • A character’s actions show how he or she responds to conflict and to other characters in the story. • Ask yourself, “ What important life lesson does the main character learn?” This lesson is the story’s theme.

  6. Visualize • Visualizing is using the text details to form pictures in your mind.

  7. Visualize • Use the Inference Map to identify sensory details in the story that will help you from mental pictures of the characters’ behaviors.

  8. Inference Map: Theme pp. 124-125

  9. Inference Map: Theme

  10. Inference Map: Theme PP. 126-127

  11. Inference Map: Theme

  12. Inference Map: Theme p. 132

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