VITAL LEARNING OUTCOME:

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. (Common Core, Reading Literature 7.2)

LEARNING TARGET:
I can write an objective summary of a text, one that identifies a theme in the text and describes how the author develops the theme.

LEARNING SCALES:
Transfer I Can Do This Making Progress Getting Started

I use this skill I can recognize Identify a an important theme(s) in in other settings, theme in texts. a text. identifying the important themes in texts. Describe how author develops theme(s). I use this skill in other settings, identifying how multiple themes are developed by an author. I use this skill in other settings, objectively summarizing texts. I can describe the way an important theme is developed by an author.

When provided a theme, I can locate specific parts of the text that help develop the theme. When directed to specific parts of a text, I can describe how they help develop a theme.

Im learning what themes are, studying examples and practicing identifying themes in texts.

I am learning how authors develop themes, studying examples of texts.

Summarize the text.

I can write an objective summary of a text.

I can write an objective summary, when I refer to a model to remind me of its parts.

I am learning what it means to summarize, studying examples.