Students will synthesize information from multiple historical fiction books to find common themes and support them with evidence from the text. Working with a partner who has read a different book, they will share their theme from their book along with supporting details. Then the other students tries to match their book with the theme. Examples of student work are provided.

Concepts

universal themes

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Additional Tags

betterlesson, betterlesson: there is something in common: finding common themes, themes, main idea or theme

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

CCRA.R.2 RL.3.9 RL.5.9 W.5.7 CCRA.R.9 RL.4.2