Enrichment Assignment by Rhea Jacob https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy ELA Enrichment Assignment - RL 1.2: Explain how the relationship to the characters, setting, and plot help develop the theme or central idea. en-us 2019-04-22 14:31:53 UTC 2019-04-22 20:47:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f4b0.png King Midas 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353065060 The main character within the story. He is greedy for gold, and this greed leads to him having the ability to turn things into gold by touch. He learns his lesson after he accidentally turns his daughter into gold, realizing he does not need gold to have a better life]]> 2019-04-22 14:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353065060 Marygold 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353067922 Side character in the story, King Midas' daughter. She was turned to gold by her father and taught him a lesson about the dangers of greed as a result. She is the one thing that King Midas loves just as much as gold]]> 2019-04-22 14:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353067922 Stranger 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353068966 Side character in the story, His intentions are unclear, but he appears to grant King Midas' wish to have the Golden Touch. The stranger ends up reversing King Midas' ability when he realizes how greedy he was after just turning Marygold to gold. ]]> 2019-04-22 14:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353068966 Characters 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353070378 2019-04-22 14:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353070378 Setting 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353070825 The setting is King Midas' palace in ancient Greece. ]]> 2019-04-22 14:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353070825 Evidence 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353071081 "He made it his custom, therefore, to pass a large portion of every day in a dark and dreary apartment, underground, at the basement of his palace."(Paragraph 4)]]> 2019-04-22 14:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353071081 Evidence 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353072597 "Wise King Midas was so exalted by his good fortune, that the palace seemed not sufficiently spacious to contain him."(Paragraph 33)]]> 2019-04-22 14:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353072597 Evidence 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353073204 "King Midas hastened back to the palace; and, I suppose, the servants knew not what to make of it when they saw their royal master so carefully bringing home an earthen pitcher of water."(Paragraph 85)]]> 2019-04-22 14:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353073204 Theme 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353173446 The theme is that greed can be dangerous.]]> 2019-04-22 20:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353173446 characters 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353174554 King Midas was very greedy, and because of this he accidentally turned his daughter, Marygold into gold. His characterization of being greedy caused the theme because he accidentally incapacitated his daughter.]]> 2019-04-22 20:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353174554 setting 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353177846 King Midas' palace adds to the theme by stressing King Midas' greed. He already has a large palace to himself, along with a garden and a treasure room. But still he wants more. ]]> 2019-04-22 20:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353177846 plot 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353178421 The plot adds to the theme because if the series of events that led to King Midas accidentally turned his daughter into gold, then the moral of how greed can be a disaster would not have been a disaster.]]> 2019-04-22 20:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353178421 evidence 4804104955 https://padlet.com/4804104955/q5vwt7vjl5sy/wish/353179177 “'You are wiser than you were, King Midas!” said the stranger, looking seriously at him. “Your own heart, I perceive, has not been entirely changed from flesh to gold. Were it so, your case would indeed be desperate. But you appear to be still capable of understanding that the commonest things, such as lie within everybody’s grasp, are more valuable than the riches which so many mortals sigh and struggle after. Tell me, now, do you sincerely desire to rid yourself of this Golden Touch?'

'It is hateful to me!' replied Midas." 

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