


Provide examples and choral responses with the teacher. Theme, Universal theme, virtue, moral, diversity, author’s message, central idea, lesson, universal. Students will close-read text to determine the theme. Students will be front-loaded on content specific vocabulary, as well as refreshed on other relevant smartboard/projector/television for slide.“Last Stop on Market Street” digital copy.Will be able to find textual evidence to support that theme in 4 of 5 opportunities with 100% accuracy. Learning Objective(s): After determining the story’s theme as a class, and when given a worksheet, students Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text summarize the text. 28 This illustration conveys the literary theme of kindness when Nana takes CJ to a soup kitchen, and they both volunteer their time to help serve food to the less fortunate.Ĭ. Part B3a: Quality Illustrations & Literary Theme Peña, D. Words tell us things that the pictures omit,Īnd vice versa (2016).” By using pictures, they advance the meaning of the story. “reading” the illustrations as it is reading the words.


Representation because Nana is telling CJ that not all people experience the world in the same In this example from the book, children can gain a deeper understanding of positive diverse.People watch the world with their ears (Peña & Robinson, 2015).” Nana replies, “ Boy, what do you know about seeing? Some At one point in the story, a blind man gets on the bus and CJ lets the man have his seat.Having material things is not what brings fulfillment and happiness. Nana helps CJ to view the positiveĪspects of their situation and uses inclusive interactions with fellow bus riders to show CJ that Their journey to the soup kitchen, the two encounter a variety of different people on the bus, andĪt the soup kitchen, and Nana helps CJ to see the raw beauty in the world around them from theĭiverse people, to the heart of the busy city that whizzes by. They don’t have a car of their own, and he’s mad that they have to wait for the bus in the rain. Town to volunteer at a soup kitchen at the last stop on Market Street. The main characters in this book are CJ and his Nana.Part B1-B1A: Positive Diverse Representation Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña.
