THEME
One word or short phrase that tells the reader what a story is about.
What is a topic?
Anna and Harry performed this kind of circus act as the Flying Avalons.
What is a trapeze act?
Courage, love, family, and survival are all examples of this in “The Leap.”
What are topics?
“First,” “next,” and “finally” signal this pattern.
What is chronological order?
Whitfield Ashworth was killed by this person.
Who is Marla?
A full sentence that tells the lesson a story teaches about life.
What is a theme?
This struck the circus tent during the Avalons’ act.
What is lightning?
Anna risking her life in the fire shows this lesson about a parent’s love.
What is “a parent will risk everything for their child?"
“Because of this” and “as a result” signal this pattern.
What is cause and effect?
Miss Eddins will spend her weekend playing this game.
What is Rainbow Six Siege?
“Courage” is an example of this.
What is a topic?
Anna grabbed this to survive, and it burned her hands.
What is a pole still hot from the lightning?
The narrator owes her mother her life three times. This lesson about life is what that shows.
What is “our lives are shaped by the courage of the people who came before us”?
The narrator is trapped in a burning house, and Anna leaps to the roof to rescue her. This pattern fits.
What is problem and solution?
A vocab word that is to say or show the opposite of something.
What is contradict?
“People can find strength they didn’t know they had” is an example of this.
What is a theme?
Anna met the narrator’s father here.
What is the hospital?
Anna’s trapeze skills later help her save her daughter. This theme is what that develops.
What is “skills from our past can help us in ways we never expected”?
“The Leap” is NOT told in this order, because it starts with Anna old and blind and then goes back to the past.
What is chronological order?
The name of the detective that solved the Ashworth Manor case.
Who is Detective Morgan?
Turn the topic “survival” into a theme.
What is “People will do whatever it takes to survive when their lives are in danger”?
The narrator says she owes her mother her existence this many times.
What is three?
The narrator comes home to care for her blind mother, the same mother who once saved her. This theme is what that shows.
What is “the people who care for us deserve our care in return”?
The story starts with Anna old and blind, then jumps back to her days in the circus. This is the name for going back in time in a story.
What is a flashback?
Miss Eddins and Mrs. Petrosky have this breed of dog.
What is a chihuahua?