Weekly learning target: I Can Identify How a Central Idea or Theme Emerges Throughout A Text.
Jan 03, 2016
Weekly learning target:I Can Identify How a Central Idea or Theme Emerges Throughout A Text.
Agenda1) Warm Up: Prompt2) Connection: Text Reflection3) Mini-Lesson: Creating Theme4) Guided Practice: Reading WDC and identifying
elements of theme5) Independent Practice: Creating Theme6) Wrap Up: Back to Aim7) Homework: Read to Chapter 11-13
Connection
Creating Theme
Identify a topicIdentify your purposeKnow your audienceDecide on your genrePick a moment and blow it up
Guided Practice
Popcorn read pages 110-111
Creating Theme
Identify a topicIdentify your purposeKnow your audienceDecide on your genrePick a moment and blow it up
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?
Independent Practice
Topic: Genre:
Poem (5 stanza’s minimum)Memoir (4 full paragraph minimum)
Purpose (What do you want your reader to understand when they finish reading your piece?)
Audience:
Moment:
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:
Wrap Up
How do you create a theme?
Homework
Read Chapter 11-13 for Homework