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English · Grade 7

Themes, Structure and Character Interactions

Learners read an original one-act play about a father and daughter who disagree about the future of the family hardware store, plus Shakespeare's public-domain Sonnet 18 and an original sonnet. They analyze how characters' interactions drive the plot, how a drama's form (scenes, stage directions, soliloquy, aside) shapes meaning, how a theme develops across a text, and how a sonnet's structure and turn build its message.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 minutes
  • Theme, drama and sonnet check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Analyze how a theme develops over the course of a text through characters' interactions and choices.
  • Analyze how characters' interactions and conflicts drive the plot and reveal character.
  • Analyze how a drama's form (scenes, stage directions, dialogue, soliloquy and aside) contributes to its meaning.
  • Analyze how a sonnet's structure (quatrains, couplet, rhyme scheme and turn) contributes to its meaning.

Lessons

  1. Interactions that drive the plot 6 steps3 practiceabout 26 min
  2. The tools of drama 6 steps3 practiceabout 26 min
  3. How the theme develops 5 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  4. The sonnet: form that carries meaning 6 steps3 practiceabout 28 min
  5. Theme, drama and sonnet check 9 questions at the end

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