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In order to help students try and find the theme or big idea of a story. Some of which would include "What happened to the characters in their story, did they learn or change from the begging?", "Did the outcome in the book change anyone or cause any differences?", or "What did you feel as you read the story, do you feel any different or think about something different?"

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In order to help students understand the difference between the idea of theme and central idea or main idea. I want to male sure that the students know what these to ideas are and how they differ. It would helps get this idea across with the students. I will make sure that students try to think about these things while they are reading their stories.

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This is a handout that talks about the big ideas that are in books. This should helps students get a better idea about the books that they read

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On the same way that I am providing students with a way to figure out the big ideas that come from their story. This way they can look at the individual parts and see how they tie in the big idea. Additional it also asks  what the message is
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In order to help students understand how to find theme, I wanted to use a graphic organizer that the students can use in their reading to help them find the points in the story that can help them like the characters the setting and the problems that would help us understand what the theme is from the story

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When students chose the books that they will read I want them to think about the themes and big ideas that present themselves to the students. Then after they read the books, then they can talk about them. Here they will discuss some of the themes and ideas that they came across. Not to mention if the books related to something that they have experienced in their lives. In order to help students connect the text to their learning.

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Powtoons is a website that allows people to make cartoons about whatever they want. I hope to use this as a possible means to help students create their stories and help give them an alternative to Storybird of they want to be a little creative. This tool will help students show me their understanding of the themes and big ideas.

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Powtoon | Create Awesome Videos Yourself

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Powtoon gives you everything you need to easily make professional videos and presentations that your clients, colleagues, and friends will love! No design or tech skills are necessary - it's free, easy, and awesome!

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Storybird is a website that allows people to make their own stories from their own text and the pictures that are offered by the website. I want to use this website for students so they can make stories that have a theme and a big idea behind it. It is a means to help me see that students have an understanding of these ideas and how they work. Students might also want to try to make a story based on something from their own life so that they can connect the idea of theme to real life

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Storybird - Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember.

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Become a better writer with Storybird's creativity tools. Online courses, challenges, and reader feedback will help you improve your writing.

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This is a graphic organizer that I hope to use with students to help understand the important themes of the books. The student can use this paper to draw what they believe to be important points in the book and explaining why they drew this scene and what is it supposed to represent from the theme. It is meant to help engage students in the text and have them select which scenes would best exemplify the themes or main ideas that were presented in this book.

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This is a small answer to a question about theme that I thought would be a good way for students to understand the concept to get to the main point that I want to make with this concept.

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Write Great Fiction: Revision & Self-Editing
Think of theme as the "meta-message," the one big statement about the world your work of fiction will convey. It will do this whether you're conscious of it or not.

A novel will have only one meta-message, though it may offer several sub-messages. For example, the theme of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is "Kindness and justice are the highest values of human existence." But the novel propounds numerous messages, such as the futility of pure intellect and the burden of free will.

But you don't want characters who merely represent a thesis. They must be real people with passionate hearts.

Your job is to find out where that passion is. In your prewriting, allow time for your main characters to explain, in their own voices, a philosophy of life.

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What Is Theme? A Meta-Message | WritersDigest.com

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Write Great Fiction: Revision & Self-Editing Think of theme as the "meta-message," the one big statement about the world your work of fiction will convey. It will do this whether you're conscious of it or not. A novel will have only one meta-message, though it may offer several sub-messages.

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A young boy named Moon Shadow comes to live with his father in America. When he arrives, he has to deal with the xenophobia that comes with living in this time period. Moon needs to adapt to the new life that he has in this country, and try to help his dad achieve his dream of flying. This story is a great one for talking about issues that our country had years ago and how many people did not tolerate each other as they should have. In fact, it sort of ties in it some issues that we have with our own time. I think that this book would be a great addition to help students see a number of different themes emerge from this book. A few of which I think we see are loyalty, perseverance, and cooperation.

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This is a girl that lived during the time of Nazi Germany, her name is Anne Frank. In this book of her life, we see how things change for her as she goes from a regular girl to a refugee of the run for her life. This story is well known among many people and I felt that this would be a good book for an actual event that happened. Students should be able to see how real events create a story that should be told to others so as not to repeat tragedy. This book emphasizes the themes of courage and perseverance as this girl and her family tries to survive this horrible event.

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Opal meets a dog that she names Winn-Dixie and her summer changes for the better. Se meets many people in her town because of the dog , which helps her to make connections with others. Of course Opal has some issues with her mother who abandoned her and when Winn-Dixie runs away, it is a stressful time for Opal, can she overcome this issue? I wanted to include this book because I felt that this title would helps explore some ideas on a realistic problem and one that some students would connect to. I also wanted to have students explore the ideas of loyalty and compassion that occur in the book. I think that this would be a great one for kids to think abo

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Josh is a kid who has basketball on the mind. No surprise seeing how his dad is a former major basketball player and his brother is another basketball player. Both Josh and his brother JB are close until JB gets a girlfriend then thins start to change between them. They are drifting apart as things between them get difficult. an they keep this brotherly bond together or will they drift apart? I wanted to include this book in this selection because it deals with a more realistic problem that could occur with kids. I think that it would help if students see much of these lessons and what they mean for students. Plus this story deals with the theme of loyalty.

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11-year old Harry Potter life is never the same again when he learns that he is a wizard. Now he has to go to school for magic and learn about his own past, about what happened to his parents and what mystery is going on in the school. But what does it have to do with a dark wizard that has been dead for years? As a book that many people enjoy, I wanted to use this book to help engage students when they are thinking of a theme. The major theme that I want to convey with this book is the idea of courage.

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A story about a little creature called a hobbit called Bilbo Baggins who is asked to go on an adventure with a company of Dwarves to defeat a dragon. ALong the way the small hobbit will meet trolls , wargs, giants, elves, and a creature that likes to play riddles. I wanted to include this book because it involves the traditional story of a hero that overcomes the odds to help his friends save the day. I find that it will help students with the theme of perseverance.

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This is a short video that tells us a little more about theme and what it is supposed to be. I would like to share this video at the start of this module to help kids to understand what I am looking for a little more clearly. I feel that if they understand it they will be on the lookout for this in this part of the lesson.