Literature - EC: L.F.2.3.4

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
Questions/activities that grow in complexity
Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Grade Levels

Commencement

Course, Subject

English Language Arts, Literature

Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content

L.F.2.3.4 L.F.2.3.4

Explain, interpret, compare, describe, analyze, and/or evaluate theme in a variety of fiction:

the relationship between the theme and other components of the text
comparing and contrasting how major themes are developed across genres
the reflection of traditional and contemporary issues, themes, motifs, universal characters, and genres
the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period

Activities

Identify the major themes of a narrative.
Identify whether these themes are specific to a text, historical period, genre or are universal.
Interpret how a theme is developed over the course of a narrative by interpreting at least three specific scenes.
Explain how a theme is used by an author to develop a character, conflict or setting.
Develop an argument whether or not the theme in a given text can be used to explore a contemporary issue.
Draw a conclusion about the author’s intended purpose of a text given the themes that are developed.

Answer Key/Rubric

Students correctly identify and discuss themes through close reading of a text.
Students are able to make initial evaluations about whether or not these themes are universal or specific to a given time period, text or genre.
Students explore how a theme is developed over the course of a narrative by interpreting at least three specific scenes in which the theme is developed.
Students are able to draw connections between the development of a theme and its relationship to a character, conflict or setting.
Students make connections between the text and their world by comparing a theme from a text to the contemporary world in which they live.
Students draw a connection between a theme in a text and the author’s intended purpose.

Suggested Rubric: This rubric may be used to assess a student’s overall mastery of the standard or eligible content.