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Weekly learning target : I Can Identify How a Central Idea or Theme Emerges Throughout A Text. Date: 2/ 27/ 14 Aim : How do we create a theme in a text that we write?.
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Weekly learning target: I Can Identify How a Central Idea or Theme Emerges Throughout A Text. Date: 2/27/14Aim: How do we create a theme in a text that we write? Warm Up: What is an indelible moment or one that you will never forget in your life? It can be positive or negative. What did it teach you?
Agenda • Warm Up: Prompt • Connection: Text Reflection • Mini-Lesson: Creating Theme • Guided Practice: Reading WDC and identifying elements of theme • Independent Practice: Creating Theme • Wrap Up: Back to Aim • Homework: Read to Chapter 11-13
Creating Theme • Identify a topic • Identify your purpose • Know your audience • Decide on your genre • Pick a moment and blow it up
Guided Practice • Creating Theme • Identify a topic • Identify your purpose • Know your audience • Decide on your genre • Pick a moment and blow it up Popcorn read pages 110-111
Check for Understanding How do you create theme? Consensus
Prompt “Incident” by Countee Cullen and “A Life is More than a Moment” by Elizabeth Eckford describe indelible moments in each author’s life. What is an indelible moment in yours? What did it teach you?
Directions: Use the planning organizer below to begin brainstorming about your writing piece. Then write either a poem or a memoir to answer the prompt: Independent Practice
How do you create a theme? Wrap Up
Homework • Read Chapter 11-13 for Homework