THEME REPORT

 

THEME REPORT

THEME REPORT

This is a formal report and should follow all of the procedures in your
"HOW TO WRITE A REPORT" packet.
This report should be in pen.
You need to decide on a theme, main idea or topic for your report. Make sure that the theme is comfortable for you to research. Themes may include: nature, children, innocence, fantasy, honesty, bravery, love, happiness, pride, rivers, dogs, etc. You then need to select one piece of prose and two poems that reflect the theme that you have chosen. This report will be an oral presentation, as well as, a written presentation. Practice reading your selections at home in front of your mirror.

SET UP: You will need a folder. Your report should be in the following order:

1) TITLE PAGE - You need to follow the specific directions regarding a title page. These directions are found in your "HOW TO WRITE A
REPORT."

2) TABLE OF CONTENTS-Make sure that your topics are on the left hand side of your paper in a straight line. Your page numbers are on the right hand side of your paper in a straight line. You need a listed, itemized account of what each topic will be and its specific page number.

3) AN INTRODUCTION- as to why you have chosen your specific theme. Your introduction must be a minimum of 100 words. You also need to inform the reader about what your report will cover.

PROSE- Choose a book that relates to your "theme." Find a passage in the book that exemplifies your "theme." Now write an introduction naming your specific theme and explain specifically why you chose this specific prose to go with your theme. Also, explain how this selection relates to your theme. This is the most important part of your report because you have to really think. Please include the title and the author of your piece of prose. The title of a book is always underlined. The selection must be a minimum of three paragraphs. You may copy the prose on a copy machine, computer or hand write it.


4) POEM # 1-Select a poem with your theme in mind. Now write an introduction naming your specific theme and explain specifically why you chose this specific poem # 1 to go with your theme. Also, explain how this selection relates to your theme. This is the most important part of your report because you have to really think. Write an introductory paragraph mentioning your specific theme and how it relates to the poem that you selected. Please include the title of the poem and the poet. Then copy your poem.

5) POEM # 2-Select another poem with your theme in mind. Now write an introduction naming your specific theme and explain specifically why you chose this specific poem # 2 to go with your theme. Also, explain how this selection relates to your theme. This is the most important part of your report because you have to really think. Write an introductory paragraph mentioning your specific theme and how it relates to the poem that you selected. Please include the title of the poem and the poet. Then copy your poem.

6) CONCLUSION- You need to inform the reader what you learned by writing this report. You need to be specific. (100 word minimum)

 

SET UP MATRIX


Title Page 10 points
Table of Contents 10 points
General Introduction of your report (100 word minimum) 10 points
Theme Introduction for Prose 10 points
Prose copy 6 points
Author 4 points
Theme Introduction for Poem # 1 /10 points
Poem copy 6 points
Poet 4 points
Theme Introduction for Poem # 2 /10 points
Poem copy 6 points
Poet 4 points
Conclusion (100 word minimum) 10 points

ORAL INTERPRETATION OF LITERATURE

Your report should be in ink or word-processed.

Your Literature Report will consist of the following:

A folder

A title page

A table of contents

An introduction explaining the "THEME" that you chose and why you chose it.

A piece of prose from a book and two poems that revolve around a
"common theme."

A conclusion

Themes can include: peace, nature, children, innocence,
fantasy, honesty, love, happiness, pride, bravery, etc.

HOW TO BEGIN

1. Decide on a "Theme" for your program.

2. Write on introduction as to why you selected that specific
"theme" and why it is important to you. (100 word minimum)

3. Choose a book that relates to your "theme." Find a passage
(3 to 4 paragraphs) that exemplifies your "theme." Make a
copy of it. Make sure you write an introductory paragraph
about how your selection relates to your "theme " and what
your selection means.

4. Choose two poems with your "theme" in mind. Copy your
poems, each on a separate page. Write an introductory
paragraph for each poem. Explain what each poem means and
how each poem relates to your "theme."

5. Each piece of work should be on a separate page and each
piece of work should have a separate introduction.

6. Place your selections in order.
a. Prose
b. Poem 1
c. Poem 2

7. Practice reading your selections aloud and in front of a
mirror. This is going to be an "oral" presentation, as well as, a written one.

8. Make sure that you mention your "theme" in each introduction.


INTRODUCTION


My topic is beauty. I chose beauty because it is something everyone has. Even the ugliest person on earth has beauty. Beauty is everywhere. Even if you sit in a pitch black room there is some beauty.

I think beauty is unique and sometimes weird, everything is inhabited by it. Beauty can be many things including personality, art, people, women, and men.

Most people think beauty is just people's faces and bodies. Beautiful is usually an expression used to describe women. The correct expression for men would be handsome.

Most people think ART is beautiful because it usually makes an image and consists of many colors and shapes.

BEAUTY IS
EVERYWHERE!

 

 


INTRODUCTION
..
This piece of prose I am writing about is from the book, "My Mother Is The Most Beautiful Woman In The World". I think this piece of prose exemplifies that, even if you know someone isn't that beautiful, and is someone special to you, you may still think they are very beautiful in your own eyes. .

 

My Mother Is The Most Beautiful Woman In The World.


Just then a breathless, excited woman came puffing up to the
crowd, her face was big and broad, her body even larger. Her eyes
were pale slits between a great lump of nose. The mouth was almost
toothless. Even as a young girl everyone always said "a homely girl
like Marfa is lucky to get a good husband like Ivan."
"Varyachka!" the woman cried.
"Mamochka!" cried the little girl, and they fell into each others
arms. The two of them beamed upon each other. Varya cuddled into
that ample and familiar bosom. The smile Varya had longed for was
again shining upon her.
All of the villagers smiled thankfully when Varya looked up from
her mother's shoulder and said with joy:
"This is my mother! I told you my mother is the most beautiful
woman in the world!'"


Becky Rayher, Author

 

 


INTRODUCTION


I chose this poem because I think it is telling the reader that many things are beautiful. The poet is saying that swift things are beautiful. She is talking about rushing water and fast lightening. The poem is also saying that slow things are beautiful. Days end, the pausing wave, an ember, an opening flower are all beautiful, too.

 

 

"SWIFT THINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL"


Swift things are beautiful:
Swallows and deer,
And lightning that falls
Bright veined and clear,
Rivers and Meteors,
Wind in the wheat,
The strong- withered horse,
The runners sure feet.

And slow things are beautiful:
The closing of the day,
The pause of the wave
That curves down to spray,
The ember that crumbles,
The opening flower,
And the Ox that moves on
In the quiet of power.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

 

 

INTRODUCTION

The second poem I am writing about is named "Pied Beauty." I think this poem shows the reader that beauty is truly everywhere! And I think that this poem is based on patterns and colors. The poem uses the descriptive adjectives like fallow, dappled, fickle, freckled, and stippled.

 

Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things-
For skies of couple- colour as a brinded cow
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim,
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things, counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; a dazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
praise him.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins