R21.4 Story Chart Exercise: Relate Title's Themes to Universal Idea
Literary Core Skill:
Rhetoric Level 21: Consider various titles with respect to a specific universal idea.
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Elements of Fiction:
Biblioscopic Dialogue
Theme
Worldview
Assignment Type:
Description:
This worksheet presents a blank story chart. Students fill out chart with respect to the current title’s theme and its contribution to a discussion of the universal idea.
As with all other facets of literary reading, students apply the techniques they have previously learned on children’s stories to works at their own reading level, putting the general and specific themes of the current title in the context of an ongoing human conversation about universal ideas.
Grading Rubric:
Equal parts credit for each plausibly completed section of the story chart.
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