Theme of Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Theme


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Activity Overview

A theme is a central idea, subject, or message in a story. Many stories have more than one important theme, and often in folktales, the theme is tied to the lesson the audience will take away from the story. For this activity, students will identify and illustrate the main theme in Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters and support the theme with evidence from the text. The main theme of this story is that kindness is beautiful.


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Objective: Create a one cell storyboard that identifies a recurring theme in Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters. Illustrate an example and write a short description.

Student Instructions:

  1. Click "Start Assignment".
  2. Identify a theme from Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters that you wish to include and type it in the heading.
  3. Create an image for an example that represents this theme using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.
  4. Write a short description.
  5. Save and exit when finished.


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