UP:ELA21.5.23

Vocabulary

  • Determine
  • Analyze
  • Themes
  • Culturally-diverse literary text
  • Textual evidence

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text.
  • An author develops a theme by including specific details in the text to help the reader identify and understand the theme.
  • There are common, or universal, themes that frequently appear in literary text.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify the themes of various culturally-diverse literary texts.
  • Analyze the themes of various culturally-diverse literary texts using text evidence.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Literature often includes universal (common) themes, and the author suggests the theme of the text by including particular details about characters or events.
  • They can demonstrate they understood the theme of a story by using text evidence to support their identification.
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