Theme 29 - Short Answer Exercise: Can Details About the Author's Beliefs Help Us Understand the Story's Themes?

Literary Core Skill:

Relate details from the author’s life and times to themes of various titles.
Resources: Socratic List questions 18g, 19d, 20e, 21e; TC Syllabus section 2

Elements of Fiction:

Context
Theme

Assignment Type:

Short Answer Exercise

Description:

This worksheet asks for a paragraph- or page-length response to Socratic List question 21e.

Grading Rubric:

Equal parts credit for a) clean grammar/syntax/punctuation, b) plausibility, and c) reference to the text. Paragraph- and page-length answers may also be graded on the 5-fold rubric.

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