Lesson Plan
Fiction Investigations: Topics and Themes Between Texts
Students can have a love affair with fiction while details of the genre can go unnoticed! Using this lesson, your students look under the hood of their favorite fiction by analyzing texts across common themes and topics that hook readers.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to analyze fiction across similar topics and themes.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Divide your students into four groups by assigning each of them one of the following statements:
- Wizards
- Some wizards are good and some are diabolical.
- A boy wizard goes off to a school in a magical realm.
- Diabolical wizards will often stop at nothing to acquire absolute power.
- Tell your class that these statements fall into two categories: topic (a subject or idea), or a theme (an author’s opinion about a subject or topic). Split the room into two sides and have the students go to the side where they think they belong.
- Discuss where students went and why. Clarify proper sides of the room that students/statements should be on.
- Share that today’s lesson requires this ability to identify topic and theme. Your students then may return to their seats.