Tweeting a Theme

 

This is a fun and functional activity for students to practice writing theme statements. There is a definition of theme and guidelines for distinguishing between subjects and theme statements as well as a strategy for writing a theme statement from a subject. Students are then asked to write a theme statement for a text they are reading. They must be able to defend their theme statements with textual evidence.

After that, students take their theme statements and turn them into tweets of 140 characters or less.

Students can work individually or in small groups for this activity. You can find this product on my TPT store here.