Novels and poetry often have a variety of themes throughout that students can identify and analyze. Any literary elements can be conveyed through characters, setting, dialogue, plot, or a combination. In this activity, students will identify a theme of The Poet X and illustrate examples from the text. Students can explore by identifying these elements themselves or in an “envelope activity”, where they are given one or more to track throughout their reading. Then, they'll create a spider map illustrating what they found! Teachers may ask students to illustrate multiple examples of a single theme, symbol, or motif, or illustrate one example for each.
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Objective: Create a storyboard that identifies at lest one theme of The Poet X. Illustrate each and write a short description below each cell.
Student Instructions:
Lead students in a discussion of a prevalent theme in The Poet X. Students need to find a lesson that the story teaches that they see played out throughout the book.
Students will need varying degrees of help in finding examples of the theme, and you can assist them by pointing out characters, setting, plot, and dialogue elements that will aid their awareness of theme.
The theme of a story is what you learn about life after reading a story. Understanding theme is important, therefore, because it makes the connection between the story and the real life lessons for students.
A theme is the life lesson learned from reading a story, and a motif is a symbol that is used throughout a story that often illuminates the theme. Authors use motifs to make the point they are trying to make.