Theme Assessment
6.05 States an author’s purpose for a given selection
7.09 Analyzes story elements including themes and author’s purpose using textual evidence across a variety of selections.
Follow the directions carefully.
1. Define what a theme is. Use complete sentences.
2. Read the following story closely and answer the question below.
Two Frogs lived together in a marsh. But one hot summer the marsh dried up, and they left it to look for another place to live in: for frogs like damp places if they can get them. By and by they came to a deep well, and one of them looked down into it, and said to the other, "This looks a nice cool place. Let us jump in and settle here." The other agreed, and without looking they leapt into the deep well, only to find that it was dried up and very shallow so that they could not get back out. It was there that they died.
a. What is the theme of this story?
b. How do you know? Pull evidence from the text.