Adaptive Perseverance - Understand there are multiple ways to achieve an outcome
Communication - Convey thoughts and ideas for a variety of purposes
Global Citizenship - Embracing responsibilities to make the world a better place and recognizing that compromise is essential
Critical Thinking - view problems, looking for both “bigger picture” connections and more detailed distinctions, to gain insights that will inform solutions
What message (theme) is the author trying to send to the reader regarding multiple topics?
How do the consequences of breaking rules for a good reason impact the characters and the story's outcome?
How do the actions of characters who break the rules for a good reason influence other characters or society within the story?
Identify themes related to justice and morality.
Define theme
Cite specific evidence to support topics in the text
Identify a theme and support it with evidence and reasoning
Make sensible predictions and inferences
Use visualizing skills
Identify the major events in a story
Identify the difference between physical traits and character traits
Identify character traits and provide specific evidence to support them
Evaluate characters based on their character traits and provide evidence to support that evaluation
RL: 1 - Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL:2 - Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details.
RL: 3 - Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
RL: 10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
W:1 - Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
W:4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
W:6 - Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Theme, character trait, physical trait, evidence, cite
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