Step 1: What is a theme statement?
Learning Target: I can identify and analyze themes and claims in in literary and informational texts.
Activity 1: Theme Presentation
Activity 2: Sorting Game--no sorting hats involved:(
Step 2: What is CLEW?
Learning Target: I can support conclusions and inferences drawn from literary and informational texts with evidence.
Activity 3: CLEW Presentation or a More Fun Version:)
Graphic Organizer for OPE!
Step 3: What is an OPE?
Learning Target 1: I can identify and analyze themes and claims in literary texts.
Learning Target 2: I can support conclusions and inferences drawn from literary and informational texts with evidence.
Learning Target 3: Using Paragraphs, Transitions, and Lead-ins to Organize Writing
Learning Target 4:
An OPE is simply a bigger CLEW. You will have your Claim Statement (for this it will be a theme statement) followed by the LEW sequence repeated 2-3 times:
Assessment
You will write an OPE for one of the Disney Shorts we viewed (or if there is another one you want to use, please tell your teacher;there are plenty on Netflix, youtube, or Vimeo). Easy, right? As the example above is on the short "Boundin'," you may not use that one for your OPE.