When choosing your books for your theme unit, you will look for a message that develops through multiple texts that create an overarching idea for your students to discuss and analyze together.

Activity: Connecting Literature Through a Theme

When choosing your books for your theme unit, you will look for a message that develops through multiple texts that create an overarching idea for your students to discuss and analyze together. To begin the idea of how these stories can connect around an idea, even with different formats in picture books, you will watch videos from Storyline Online (a wonderful resource for your future classroom).

Looking at two texts written by the same author, Evelyn Coleman, you will use the graphic organizer provided to compare the two texts and analyze for a common theme. As you develop your ideas from the texts, consider the theme statement you would use to link them together. You will receive feedback on this idea of theme statement that has been developing through the course. You may choose to print and write your notes on the attached graphic organizer PDF or create a Word Document to take notes. Upload your resulting notes in the form of your choice in order to receive feedback.

Text 1: White Socks Only: https://storylineonline.net/books/white-socks-only/ or https://youtu.be/fRuOdTqxBPU
Text 2: To Be A Drum: https://storylineonline.net/books/to-be-a-drum/ or https://youtu.be/7BVBBe56MUg