Short Stories for Teaching Theme

The Teaching ELA Podcast

English - August 02, 2022 10:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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(Originally Published August 23, 2021) The only thing you need to know is that the ELA Teacher at your school (that's probably you) is the most important employee at your school.

That's why everything I do at the Teaching ELA podcast is to provide the tools to help you get better and get home on time.

After all, the most important person at the school has the right to spend time with the people he or she values the most.

In today’s episode of the Teaching ELA Podcast, I discuss several short stories for teaching theme: “The Necklace,” “The Interlopers,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “A White Heron,” and “The Short Happy Life of Frances Macomber.” I’ve got an emergency lesson plan you can get on the board right. And if there’s one short story involving theme you need to teach, we have that, too.

Takeaways

Determining theme is the ultimate end in citing textual evidence to support analysis.The analysis chart allows differentiation for all levels. You change the necessary levels of complexity while getting all students to master the same skill.Teaching the skill of citing textual evidence to support analysis and determine theme makes teaching all other standards either no longer necessary or easier to teach.

Links and Resources

Theme Lesson Plans Collection“The Necklace” at elacommoncorelessonplans.com“A White Heron” at elacommoncorelessonplans.com“The Interlopers” theme lesson plan at elacommoncorelessonplans.com“Minister’s Black Veil” at elacommoncorelessonplans.com“The Story of an Hour” at elacommoncorelessonplans.com