Lesson 13: The Return

Getting Started

Questions to Explore

• How did people in the past depend on natural resources to solve problems?

Facts and Definitions

• Setting is the time and place of the action of a story.
• Theme is the message or lesson the author wants to communicate with the reader.
• Characters are the people in the story.
• Plot is the series of major events that occur in the story.
• Problem is the major obstacle or situation the main character is trying to overcome.
• Resolution is how the problem in the story is resolved or solved.

Summary of Skills

• Identify and interpret elements of fiction and nonfiction. (LA)
• Determine the author's purpose, plot, conflict, sequence of events, resolution, and theme of a text. (LA)
• Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes by participating in creative interpretations. (LA)

Materials

• Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

Introduction