Thought-Provoking Author Intention

 Today in English, we worked in small groups and looked at possible themes of our story, The Tear Thief by Carol Ann Duffy. We started by cutting our sheets so that we could see each possible theme clearly. Here you can see 4D doing that!

Next, in our groups we decided which themes were present in the story and whether this was intentional (on purpose). Here you can see the different choices below.

For example: 'Stealing is not wrong if it is for a good reason'. Even though our main character does steal tears, but it is for a good reason, we know that stealing is never okay. This meant that we decided that this was not the author's intention when writing the book. However, some other themes, such as true feelings are the most valuable, this was clearly the message the author intended on us learning through the story. She wanted us to learn that expressing our emotions is always a good thing!

Once we decided in our groups whether we thought these were the author intention or not (put into order), we then went to the other groups. One of us stayed on our table while the rest went and heard the other groups' ideas. Here you can see both classes doing some Q&A about our options.

Lastly, we came back together as a group to make our final decisions after hearing all of the other groups' ideas.