Theme or Summary?
Anyone can make a difference.
Theme
It's an autobiography.
What is a genre where the topic and the author are the same person?
It is the genre of this story, because the author and the topic are not the same person.
What is a biography?
Barbed Wire Baseball is about this person's life.
Who is the author?
What the genre of a text is?
Look at the elements of the text. Characters, setting, plot, etc.
I got a Coke and popcorn.
Summary
We know it's this genre because it's written in first-person.
Why is it an autobiography?
It's a way of writing where the subject is "he, she, it, etc.", not "I".
What is third-person narration?
Zeni felt this way before he started playing baseball.
What is small?
Rare Treasures is a biography?
Mary Annings is a real person who found fossils, and the story is written in third person.
A series of events, usually without details.
A sentence like, "I climbed down the ladder and joined Neil."
But not a sentence like, "Everything was gray or white."
What is an event?
Because of this story element, Mary was able to find fossils near her home.
What is the setting?
Zeni felt this way when he played baseball as an adult.
What is, big, powerful, confident?
Reaching for the Moon is an autobiography?
Not told directly by the author. A lesson we can learn from the story that does not include details about the story itself.
Theme.
Hold on to and work hard for things that are important to you.
What is the theme behind Buzz not letting go of his rocks?
These are the reasons why Mary Anning was a special person.
What is the fact that finding fossils was dangerous, it was a dirty job, and Mary Anning was a woman.
Even though Zeni is still at the camp at the end of the story, he felt this. Why?
Answers may vary.
That Barbed Wire Baseball is a biography?
Zeni and his family are real people who lived in internment camps, and it's written in third person.
Can two different stories have the same theme?
Can two different stories have the same summary?
Yes.
Yes!
Put these events in chronological order:
Buzz said, "Magnificent desolation."
Buzz trained in the air force.
Buzz flew planes in the Korean War.
Buzz trained by working underwater.
Buzz applied for the astronaut program.
Buzz trained in the air force.
Buzz flew planes in the Korean War.
Buzz applied for the astronaut program.
Buzz trained by working underwater.
Buzz said, "Magnificent desolation."
It was also special that scientists respected Mary Anning.
What is Mary was unschooled, yet knowledgeable?
The idea that if you're going to do something, you should do it right could be this.
What is a theme?
What person a story is narrated in?
Third person - he, she, it, etc.
First person - I