Exploring themes in 'Arthur and the Golden Rope'
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Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can identify and justify the key themes in ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’.
Key learning points
- The themes of 'Arthur and the Golden Rope' include resilience, heroism, collaboration and courage.
- A theme is a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a story.
- Texts often have a theme, or big idea, which is repeated through the story.
- Readers can interpret their own big idea or message from a narrative.
- Different readers may interpret a text in different ways.
Keywords
Theme - A theme is a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a story.
Recurring - Recurring means something that appears repeatedly.
Convey - To convey means to communicate a message to the reader directly or indirectly.
Analyse - To analyse something means to examine it in detail in order to understand it.
Justify - To justify means to show or prove something using evidence.
Common misconception
Pupils might think that a text only has one theme or main idea.
Texts often contain multiple layers of meaning and can address various themes simultaneously. They will be personal to each reader.
Teacher tip
Pupils might benefit from having a sequence of images reflecting the narrative, to support discussion of themes.
Equipment
You will need a copy of the 2016 Flying Eye Books edition of 'Arthur and the Golden Rope', written and illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton, for this lesson.
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