date: 2/ 27/ 14 aim : how do we create a theme in a text that we write?

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