Directions: Use the document in Google Classroom to write a narrative journal in response to the following image.
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Then, take notes on the following information:
1) What is theme:
Theme:
Life lesson,
meaning,
moral, or
message
about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work.
2) Themes are SENTENCES!
A topic is one word.
A theme is a sentence.
You don’t have to agree with the theme to identify it, but it is implied from the text.
Examples:
Money can’t buy happiness.
Don’t judge people based on the surface.
It is better to die free than live under tyranny.
3) Development of Theme
•Theme is rarely, if ever, openly stated in the body of the text
•Theme is most often inferred based on how the text develops
•Theme is built through:
–Characters (beliefs, thoughts, and speech)
–Actions (by any characters in the text)
–Setting (whether static or variant)
–Literary devices (irony, figurative language, details, etc.)
4) Practice:
Identify two themes from Antigone.
1) What is theme:
Theme:
Life lesson,
meaning,
moral, or
message
about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work.
2) Themes are SENTENCES!
A topic is one word.
A theme is a sentence.
You don’t have to agree with the theme to identify it, but it is implied from the text.
Examples:
Money can’t buy happiness.
Don’t judge people based on the surface.
It is better to die free than live under tyranny.
3) Development of Theme
•Theme is rarely, if ever, openly stated in the body of the text
•Theme is most often inferred based on how the text develops
•Theme is built through:
–Characters (beliefs, thoughts, and speech)
–Actions (by any characters in the text)
–Setting (whether static or variant)
–Literary devices (irony, figurative language, details, etc.)
4) Practice:
Identify two themes from Antigone.