Theme
What is a theme in a story?
A moral, lesson, or message
What is an objective summary?
A retelling of a story free from personal opinions and only includes the main details/key ideas.
What is mood in a story?
How you (the reader) feels like reading the story
What is connotation?
how a word/phrase feels
What is perspective?
How a person views something.
What is one theme from our CFA "Why Not Me?"
People should like you for you. You should just be yourself. Your real friends will like you the way you are.
What is the central idea?
One sentence that tells what the story is about
What is tone in a story?
The author's attitude/feelings
How should you identify connotation?
Positive or Negative
The Outsiders is being told from Ponyboy's POV - whose perspective is it?
The greasers
What is a theme for the fable "The Tortoise & the Hare"? (No cliche sayings.)
Being the fastest doesn't mean you're the best. Don't ever underestimate your opponent.
What is included in a 3 part topic sentence?
Name it, Verb it, Central Idea
Mood/Tone: The _____ in The Outsiders is suspenseful and keeps the readers on the edge of their seats while wondering what is going to happen next.
Mood
Connotation: "Finally, between sobs, Johnny managed to gasp out his story." (S.E. Hinton, 33)
Negative
We would only know the Socs' side. We wouldn't know what happened when Johnny/Ponyboy went to the church.
How does an author show theme development in a story?
The introduce the idea in the story at the beginning then continue to show how the theme is shown throughout the middle to the end and show the reader the overall lesson/message.
What is included in a summary?
Title/author, central idea, key ideas/supporting details
What's the mood? "I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed..." (S.E. Hinton, 1-2)
sympathy, empathy, loneliness, left out
Connotation: "... his father clobbered him around a lot, and although it made us madder than heck, we couldn't do anything about it." (S.E. Hinton, 32)
Negative
How does Ponyboy feel about being a greaser in Chapter 9?
He doesn't like his "lousy reputation", He wants to be something/someone like Darry - he wants out.
What is one theme in The Outsiders?
Friends are like family. Fighting gets you nowhere. Death is a part of life and happens to everyone.
How should key ideas/supporting details be written in a summary?
In your own words
What's the tone? "Soda is handsomer than anything else I know. Now like Darry - Soda's movie-star kind of handsome..." (S.E. Hinton, 7)
jealous, envious
Connotation: "Two-Bit gallantly offered to walk them home - the west side of town was only about twenty miles away - but they wanted to call their parents..." (S.E. Hinton, 37)
Positive
An author typically writes from one of two points of view - what are those two main types?
1st or 3rd person POV