Lit+Analysis+-+Theme


 * ** Marzano’s Generic Scale ** ||
 * SCORE 5.0 || More complex content ||
 * SCORE 4.0 || Target learning Goal ||
 * SCORE 3.0 || Simpler content ||
 * SCORE 2.0 || With help, partial success of score 2.0, or basic or elemental content ||
 * SCORE 10 || Even with help, no succes s ||

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 * = **Literary Analysis - Theme** ||
 * SCORE 5.0 || Student can analyze how connections among motifs, setting, character traits, character development, and plot suggest multiple levels of themes; analyzes and compares critiques treatment of themes across texts and within various social, cultural, and historical contexts. ||
 * SCORE 4.0 || Student can explain and illustrate how connections among motifs, setting, character traits, character development, and plot suggest story-level themes; develops abstract themes from story-level themes. ||
 * SCORE 3.0 || Student can explain the differences between concepts (e.g., truth, fairness, loyalty) and themes (e.g., good friends are loyal to each other). ||
 * SCORE 2.0 || Student can define theme as an underlying message an author conveys in a story; recognizes the difference between story-level themes and abstract themes. ||
 * SCORE 1.0 || Student cannot recall what a theme is and cannot identify a theme in a text. ||

**Sample Item Theme ** Which line from the poem “Woman with Flower” most clearly reveals its theme? A. “I wouldn’t coax the plant if I were you.” B. “And wait until it’s dry before you water it.” C. “Much growth is stunted by too careful prodding,” ★ D. “The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.”

**Sample Item Theme **

How do the changes in the narrator’s feelings toward her client contribute to the theme of “A Day in the Stream”? Use details and information from the passage to support your response.

**Sample Item Theme **. Which sentence from the passage “A Day in the Stream” most closely expresses its theme? ** A. **“I could see that the dark cloud that had hung over them for so long had passed, and they were finally able to enjoy something as simple as being a family.” ** B. **“To be with someone who was able to treasure the moment the way he did made me feel like I was exploring fly-fishing for the first time.” ★ **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;"> C. **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">“And I would not let stiff, expensive clothes or a backward-mounted reel deceive me into thinking he had <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> nothing to teach me.” **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> D. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“‘//I// wasn’t sure I was going to make it, but I’ve been well since last fall, and everything is fine now.’”