Theme
A truth about life revealed in a fiction story.
What is theme?
The problem of a story.
What is conflict?
True or False: Characterization is grouping or describing someone based on their traits
What is true?
What is the point of view where someone IN the story is narrating?
What is first person?
What is the diagram we use to show comparing and contrasting?
What is venn diagram?
To make a guess based on experience or evidence.
What is infer?
The turning point decision made by a character.
What is climax?
What are the three ways a character is developed?
What is speech, actions, and thoughts.
What is the point of view where someone OUTSIDEthe story is narrating?
What is third person?
True or False: If two people experience the same thing, they’ll always tell it the same way
What is false?
True or False: a theme can be just one word?
What is false?
The end of the story, or where the problem comes to an end.
What is resolution?
Fill in the blank: the student can describe how a plot develops over the course of a text, including how the characters ____ and/or _______as the plot moves toward a resolution.
What is change and respond?
Perspective is a character’s what? Think BAM.
What is beliefs, attitudes, and motives?
Find the missing word: The student can examine two texts of varying structures or genres that have similar _____
What is themes and/or topics?
True or False: a theme can be is usually implied, you must use the clues to figure it out?
What is true?
What does CER stand for?
What is claim, evidence, and reasoning?
Name a way that Jonas responded to any important moment in The Giver BOOK.
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What point of view was The Giver written in?
What is third person?
What is the difference between a narrator and a speaker?
What is speaker is the voice or perspective from which a story is told and narrator is the voice that tells the story?
Give an example of a theme.
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What are the three things that the craft or structure of a story can support the development of?
What is setting, plot, or theme?
Name a way that Jonas changed in The Giver BOOK.
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How do I figure out a narrator’s perspective?
What is inferring? or What is looking at what a character speech, thoughts, or actions?
Name a difference we saw between The Giver book and The Giver movie.
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