Themes - Big Ideas
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**Attention: Setting is where a story takes place. Please focus on the THEME (messages in the story).
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Themes
**Attention: Setting is where a story takes place. Please focus on the THEME (messages in the story).
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In The One and Only Ivan, one theme is optimism, making the best of a situation. Ivan, although he is lonely, chooses to call his cage a "domain". He sees it as his home and does not complain or get angry even though he has not had freedom for 27 years. Ivan still finds a way to be interested in things and people around him. He is friendly despite being in a cage and lonely.
ReplyDeleteI don't have time to blog tonight but can I do it in the morning? It is like 8:00 and still have to do reading.
Deletebye class see you at school!
DeleteClass Read-Alouds:
ReplyDeleteHow to Steal a Dog
How Many Days to America
Fly Away Home
The Most Magnificent Thing
Spider Spins a Story
The One and Only Ivan
In how to steal a dog a big idea is homeless. a theme for how to steal a dog is stealing a dog.
ReplyDeleteJames, you are right, How to Steal a Dog is about homelessness. Please write more about the themes. What are the messages in the story? Stealing a dog is presented as a complex problem. Is it right or wrong for Georgina to steal to help her family?
DeleteHi Friends and Classmates! Its me Kate I am reading 43 Old Smyteary Road by Kate Klise its theme is The House and i am still fig uring out the idea! I am also reading Because of Winn Dixie the theme takes place in Naomi Florida and the idea is to always be nice to one another and that is it!
ReplyDeleteWITH LOTS OF LOVE, KATE
Kate, I think you mean that the SETTING is the house. Setting is where a story takes place. THEME is the big idea, what the message in the story is really about.
DeleteSo, for Winn Dixie, the setting is in Florida, the theme is to be nice to one another.
I think how to steal a dog.Because the big idea is to get the money.
ReplyDeleteRobby, the plot of the story (the events in the story) deal with how to get money. Yes, a theme is how how hard life can be when you don't have money.
DeleteIn Fly Away Home the theme is at an airport. A boy and his dad live there and they are homeless.
ReplyDeleteCamille, the setting is at an airport. What are some messages from the story? The theme is about the big ideas in the story. Remember, the boy must be brave and responsible. What other things can you remember that were big ideas?
DeleteIn How Many Days To America, the theme is not giving up, trying hen things are at the worst, and making things work. You know when they ran out of water and food? They caught rain water in buckets and fished. Then they saw land, they swam toward the land, but ere rejected and were given fruit. They still did not keep at it until they reached America. Also, their motor broke down. They tried to go back but were shot at. So, they used the sail. People were brave in times of war to leave everything behind and keep going and not complain. I know I would!
ReplyDeleteIn fly away home the theme is about a family is poor, and the mom died. And the boy lives in a airport and he sees a pigeon trapped in the airport and that reminds him of his self because he's trapped in a airport like him like the pigeon.
ReplyDeleteIn the book the one and only ivan, ivan doesen't just mope around, he makes the most out of his friends, animal or human he still can do something with it
ReplyDeleteIn How Many Days To America the setting first started in a country I think. Then the mean people told them to move and shipped them on a boat. When we were talking about How Many Days To America I said the mom was selfless to give up a lot of her stuff even her ring OMG.
ReplyDeleteWhen we were reading that part I was thinking "oh no she didn't". Then when they were on the boat and they were all scrunched up, then the men saw land. Wait! I forgot a part. The woman made a sailor thing so they could sail.
Okay back to the other part I was talking about. Then the men saw land
and they swam to it. Wow they must of been brave to do that. In the end
they got to land. I think it was on thanksgiving but what I know was that they were HUNGRY.
Sincerely Chloe Brissett
In How to steal a dog the plot is a homeless family with no money. The theme is should you do the wrong thing to make your life better and some one life worse
ReplyDeleteIn the one and only ivan the plot is some wild animals in captivity. But the aren't wild. The theme is animals in cages performing for people but the don't want to do that.
ReplyDeletedon't have time to do blog tonight. Can I do it to morning? It is like 8:20!
ReplyDeletePS: And I still have to read.
ReplyDeleteIn The One and Only Ivan the PLOT is a couple of wild animals in captivity THEME but they can't be wild because they're forced to put on a show and don't want to.
ReplyDeleteI think how to steal a dog is a big homeless book. And gorgina wants money to give to her mom.
ReplyDeleteI think the theme for "The One and Only Ivan" is that Ivan, Stella, and Ruby are trying to get out of their domain. I have already read "The One and Only Ivan" and it is a good book!
ReplyDeleteI say it is wrong to steal something even if its to help someone
ReplyDeleteI so agree you never steal a dog!
DeleteOk I am back to correct myself, I am reading Because of Winn Dixie The setting is about a girl who lives in a small town. The Theme is always be kind to each other no matter WHAT!
ReplyDeleteWITH LOTS OF LOVE, KATE
The themes in how to steal a dog was the friendship brake up, and stealing the dog. In the book how many days to America the themes are leaving their home, and giving up their stuff.
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