Theme Lesson: How a Theme Develops Across a Story, Grades 7-8

A theme is not announced. It is built, event by event, and a good reader's idea of it changes as the story turns. This lesson teaches grades 7-8 to read that way: draft a theme early, test it against what happens next, and revise it when the evidence says so.

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Original story "White Paint," 2 pages, paragraphs numbered, with three checkpoints marked
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 7 pages

Answer key included

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