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Understanding a theme within a piece of literature

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Students have learned about theme somewhere in their academic journey.

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Students possess the critical thinking skills it takes to analyze a text, photo, or motion picture and develop a theme.

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Students will be active participants of small/ large group discussion.

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Students will be actively engaged with the material that is being presented (lecture/ guided notes).

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How can I check for prior knowledge/ activate background knowledge using universal material?

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How can I hold students accountable for their participation and encourage participation with peers?

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How can I facilitate the learning process and provide developmental appropriate practices throughout the lesson?

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What are some strategies I can use to check for understanding of theme throughout the lesson?

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Introduce theme definition followed by material that will be familiar enough to students of diverse backgrounds (common movie examples).

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Provide enough opportunities for small group discussion to help students construct each others' knowledge of terms, significance, and connection.

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Use randomizers so students have equal opportunities of participation without feeling picked on.

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Before transitioning to small group discussions, instructions given will include to have an answer prepared for whole group discussion.

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Provide sentence frames if EL students are chosen so they don't feel excluded from participating.

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Allow for summaries of motion pictures to be in small groups, so EL's can connect prior knowledge and classification of themes, in English, with their small groups.