Shake It Off Taylor Swift

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Shake It Off Taylor Swift

• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vm0A3Ph4dRrk

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Theme

• The Search for Meaning

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What is a Theme?

• Theme Life lesson, meaning, moral, or message
  about life or human nature that is communicated
  by a literary work.
• In other words
• Theme is what the story teaches readers.

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Themes

• A theme is not a word, it is a sentence.
• You dont have to agree with the theme to
  identify it.
• Examples
• Money cant buy happiness.
• Dont judge people based on the surface.
• It is better to die free than live under tyranny.

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Make your paper look like mine
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What is the theme?

• In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was
  hopping about, chirping and singing to its
  heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along
  with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to
  the nest. "Why not come and chat with me," said
  the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling
  in that way?" "I am helping to lay up food for
  the winter," said the Ant, "and recommend you to
  do the same." "Why bother about winter?" said
  the Grasshopper we have got plenty of food at
  present." But the Ant went on its way and
  continued its toil. When the winter came the
  Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of
  hunger, while it saw the ants distributing every
  day corn and grain from the stores they had
  collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper
  knew.

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Identifying Themes

• Themes are not explicit (clearly stated).
• Themes are implied.
• Themes are bigger than the story.

Big World of the Theme. Applies to the Real
World.
Small World of the Story
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Themes are about the big picture.

• Not The grasshopper doesnt like to work
• Not The ant and the grasshopper arent friends.
• Think BIGGER.
• Find Real World advice.

Big World of the Theme. Applies to the Real
World.
Small World of the Story
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Review

• Theme is what we can learn from a story.
• Themes must be inferred.
• Themes are about the BIG world.
• What is the theme of The Ant and the Grasshopper?
  
• Answer There is a time for work and a time for
  play!
• Can you apply this theme to your life?

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Practice

• Well read each story.
• Write what you think the theme is.
• Write another sentence explaining what happens in
  the story that leads you to believe this.
• How does the small world of the story connect to
  the big world theme?

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• Once there was a mean little boy who lived in a
  small village. This mean little boy loved to
  mess with people, so one day he ran up to a sheep
  herder and shouted, WOLF! WOLF! A wolf is
  attacking the town! The sheep herder grabbed
  his staff and ran to defend the town, but
  realized he had been fooled when the boy started
  pointing and laughing at him. Ha ha! I made
  you jump, said the boy. Then the boy ran up to
  a farmer and shouted, WOLF! WOLF! A wolf is
  attacking the town! The farmer grabbed his
  pitchfork and ran to defend the town, but when
  the boy started pointing and laughing at him, he
  realized he had been tricked. As the boy went
  back to his familys farm laughing about the
  funny trick he played, he saw a real wolf in his
  fathers chicken coop. As the wolf ate all of
  his fathers chickens, the boy screamed over and
  over again, WOLF! WOLF! Please help us! But
  nobody came to help him.

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Can you identify the theme?

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Exit card

• WRITE YOUR NAME!
• Answer the question on the front.
• 1. On the back, write the theme of The Rainbow
  Fish.
• 2. Write the theme for All Summer in a Day.
• Turn it into the correct box