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What’s in a Short Story?
Literary Terms
Theme is the central idea, message, or purpose of a
literary work.
my Notes
5. Key Ideas and Details: Even though Roger never sees Mrs. Jones again at the end of the story, what evidence supports Mrs. Jones’s promise in paragraph 21, “When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”
Check Your Understanding
What is the story’s theme? Write a sentence describing what the reader learns about life through the interaction between Roger and Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.
WRITING to SOURCES Writing Prompt
This story is told from the third-person point of view. Choose a scene or event in the incident and imagine Roger’s thoughts and feelings about what is happening. Draft a first-person narrative of his thinking at that point in the story. Be sure to
• Use first-person point of view.
• Maintain the character of Roger as the author presents him.
• Show how Roger’s thoughts and feelings fit the theme of the story.
• Use a variety of first-person pronouns (subjective, objective, intensive, and possessive) and ensure that they are in the correct case.
Save this writing response so that you can revisit it when generating ideas for the original short story you will create for Embedded Assessment 2.
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