Monday
Today we read the end of the short story The Jade Peony. Next, we reviewed the things in a story that can help "tell" you what the theme might be: the title, the conflict, the goal(s) of the main character, irony, repeated patterns or symbols, the conclusion. Remembering that theme is the author's message about life or society or human behaviour, we went through the "tells" and tried to come up with a theme statement for the story. From there, we moved into writing a paragraph about the theme of the story. The structure for this type of expository paragraph is outlined below:
1st sentence: mention the name of the story, the author and a story detail or two.
2nd sentence: state what the theme of the story is.
3rd - 11th sentences: PEE (Point, Example, Explanation) - you could decide to discuss things like the title, the conflict, the goals of the character as your points to support your discussion of theme
12th conclusion sentence
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