Hello all,
Getting kids to understand theme can be tough. Really tough. It’s one of those ideas that seems to be just outside of their reach, but you can see them trying to grasp the concept. This year, with The Outsiders we have been working through the various ideas and concepts in our Interactive Notebooks.
Not only am I trying to help the students grasp the idea of theme, but I’m also trying to instill in them the task of finding textual evidence that supports their ideas. So, I decided to start with topics.
I picked out several topics that are prevalent in the novel. For example. family support & structure, Socioeconomic stat & class structure, loyalty, juvenile violence and the consequence of those actions and finally education. Then, I split the class up into groups, giving each group a different group number. Their job was to go back to the text and find as many quotations as they could that supported each topic. Below you will find some of the AWESOME examples from class!
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