2. Partner Practice: Determing Themes
3. Partner Practice: Supporting Themes with Textual Evidence
4. Teacher Model: Explain how textual evidence develops the theme.
5. Assessment
Learning Goal
Partner Practice: Determining themes and identifying supporting evidence
2. As partners, assess each other's theme - if a statement is not a theme, correct it.
3. Each partner must cite or paraphrase supporting textual evidence for their theme and record it on your think sheet.
4. Create groups of 4 and share your theme statements and textual evidence. Record any additional themes and evidence on your think sheet.
Teacher Model: Explain how textual evidence develops a theme.
Assessment
Success Criteria:
- Determine a theme written in a complete sentence.
- Cite or paraphrase textual evidence.
- Explain how your evidence supports or develops the theme.
Partner Evaluation - When you and your partner have both completed your task.
2. Partner 1 - read your response aloud while partner 2 listens and checks for success criteria.
3. Partner 2 gives feedback based on the success criteria.
Switch roles and repeat.