10.17 - Theme

We started today's class with everyone responding to the following prompt in their writing journals (in preparation for our roots and prefixes quiz tomorrow):

Choose two roots and prefixes and describe a made-up place that is dedicated to the idea of that root or prefix. Word your description like it is an advertisement from a travel brochure.

Ex for the prefix "pre":
Preland - Coming into this fine city you'll notice what a beautiful runway we have with plenty of fountains and bright green lawns. This is one of the great things about Preland, entrances and all other before times are elegant and beautiful. Step into any restaurant and you'll notice that the appetizers coming before your meal are the greatest part of the meal. After dinner, feel free to take in any of our sports games where we will let you know the final score of the game BEFORE the game so you don't have to spend the whole time worrying about who will win.

After everyone had a chance to respond to this prompt, students shared out their responses while the rest of the class did their best to guess what root/prefix the land was dedicated too.

Next, we returned to looking at the essays we started on Animal Farm where people were struggling with what to write. To break this process down we talked about theme. We defined theme as follows:

Theme: The big idea/message that an author is trying to send through their work.

We looked at theme in the movies Open Season, The Goonies, and The Little Mermaid.

Tomorrow we will focus on theme in Animal Farm.

Homework:

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

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