Icons of Depth and Complexity

• Story title/subject:

• Student Name:

Big Idea

• What is the theme, or big idea of this story? Is there a lesson the author wants you to learn? What is the author’s purpose?

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Details

• What are the important story details?

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Rules

• Determine the genre of the story. What specific story elements helped you to determine the genre? Or what rules of behavior did the main character follow?

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Patterns

• What patterns of behavior occur within the story? Or what story patterns do you see within this genre?

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Language of the Discipline

• What vocabulary words are unique to this story? What words are unique to this genre?

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Multiple Perspectives

• Describe the main character from another character’s perspective.

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Change Over Time

• Select a character and show how the character changed over time.

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Ethics

• What ethical dilemmas occur within the story? Are there any events that could be perceived as good and bad?

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Unanswered Questions

• At the end of the story, what questions do you still have, what do you think the answers would be, and why?

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