Overview of our Unit
UNIT 1
SECTION 1
THEME AND MAIN IDEA
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."
SECTION 1
THEME AND MAIN IDEA
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."
Welcome to our wonderful world of language arts. For unit 1, section 1, we will be covering theme and main idea, along with our class novel The Hobbit. Throughout our class website, there will be plenty of information that will detail our unit and everything that we will be doing in class. Feel free to look around and use any resources that you find suitable. As we go through our unit, information will be added weekly so you and your child can keep up with our wonderful unit. If you have any questions, please feel free to use the contact form.
We are very excited about our journey through literature and hope that you can be a part of it through our class website.
STANDARDS/OBJECTIVES being covered:
ELACC7RL2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Objective 1
Understand the difference between theme and main idea; some texts are concrete in nature and deal literally with a topic such as World War II (main idea), while other texts tell a story in order to connect with or make a point about a larger, more universal human experience such as “friendship” or “betrayal” (theme)
Objective 2
Make predictions about developing themes within your class notes, citing evidence that influences your evolving opinion
Objective 3
Incorporate all literary elements into your determination of theme (tone, mood, imagery, organizational structure, narrative voice, etc.)
Objective 4
Practice summarizing a text using facts only, without relating your opinion about the text.
We are very excited about our journey through literature and hope that you can be a part of it through our class website.
STANDARDS/OBJECTIVES being covered:
ELACC7RL2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Objective 1
Understand the difference between theme and main idea; some texts are concrete in nature and deal literally with a topic such as World War II (main idea), while other texts tell a story in order to connect with or make a point about a larger, more universal human experience such as “friendship” or “betrayal” (theme)
Objective 2
Make predictions about developing themes within your class notes, citing evidence that influences your evolving opinion
Objective 3
Incorporate all literary elements into your determination of theme (tone, mood, imagery, organizational structure, narrative voice, etc.)
Objective 4
Practice summarizing a text using facts only, without relating your opinion about the text.