Getting motivated about theme

Goal: Learn a bit about character motivation and apply what you learned in your last lesson on theme to the book you are reading as a group.

Agenda:
Read
Character Motivation
Review Theme
Theme work with your group

Character motivation: 
Get motivated to learn more about character motivation.

Theme work with your group:
  • Have ONE person in your group get a copy of your theme organizer. 
  • That person needs to rename it correctly, share it with everyone in the group, and share it with Ms. Daniel and Mrs. Roberts. Periods 1 and 2, please add Ms. Love as well. 
  • Work as a group to complete the organizer. Divide the work evenly. 
  • Remember you need evidence to go with your themes. (Quotes from your book.) 
  • We will look at the revision history to see who completed what.
Reminders: 
Keep reading. 
Look for what your character wants and see how he/she is/or is not achieving those short and long term goals. 
Keep thinking about how all of this supports the theme(s) you worked on today. 

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