Unpacked Content
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.
Vocabulary
- Determine
- Analyze
- Themes
- Culturally-diverse literary text
- Textual evidence
