About This Lesson
These are questions for discussion after students have passed the mid-point of the novel. The focus is on "author's purpose" or "author's craft." The first slides are a model of how to figure out "why the author does what s/he does." The following slides are themes that students can do in groups and then come to the SmartBoard to present and fill in.
This resource would be improved with additional text-dependent questions or instructions to students about locating evidence to support the themes.