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Theme Creation Workshop: Unveiling Central Ideas in Writing

Explore how themes emerge in texts through warm-up reflections, guided practice, and independent creation. Enhance your writing by identifying topics, purposes, and audiences while mastering genre selection. Dive deep into crafting unforgettable moments and themes. Homework: Read Chapters 11-13 for theme creation insights.

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Theme Creation Workshop: Unveiling Central Ideas in Writing

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  1. Weekly learning target: I Can Identify How a Central Idea or Theme Emerges Throughout A Text. Date: 2/27/14Aim: How do we create a theme in a text that we write? Warm Up: What is an indelible moment or one that you will never forget in your life? It can be positive or negative. What did it teach you?

  2. Agenda • Warm Up: Prompt • Connection: Text Reflection • Mini-Lesson: Creating Theme • Guided Practice: Reading WDC and identifying elements of theme • Independent Practice: Creating Theme • Wrap Up: Back to Aim • Homework: Read to Chapter 11-13

  3. Connection

  4. Creating Theme • Identify a topic • Identify your purpose • Know your audience • Decide on your genre • Pick a moment and blow it up

  5. Guided Practice • Creating Theme • Identify a topic • Identify your purpose • Know your audience • Decide on your genre • Pick a moment and blow it up Popcorn read pages 110-111

  6. Check for Understanding How do you create theme? Consensus

  7. 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?

  8. 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: Independent Practice

  9. How do you create a theme? Wrap Up

  10. Homework • Read Chapter 11-13 for Homework

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