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hello readers today i want to talk about
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themes
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a theme is an important idea that is
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woven throughout a story it's not the
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plot or the summary but something a
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little deeper
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a theme links a big idea about our world
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with the action of a text
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sometimes a theme answers a question the
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story is trying to explore like what
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does it mean to be a family or what are
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we afraid of
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themes will be statements that answer
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these questions like you don't have to
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be related to someone for them to be
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your family or we are afraid of losing
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our individuality now theme is different
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from the main idea of a story or its
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summary the main idea is what the story
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is all about and the summary is the
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events of the story it's the plot it's
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what happened but the theme is a lesson
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or a message that you can take out of
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the story and apply to your own life
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themes are universal that is to say
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anyone can relate to them
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so if i tell you a story about how i got
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food poisoning the one time i ate a
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sketchy roadside hot dog instead of
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packing my own lunch the theme isn't
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avoid sticky pete's hot dogs on route 91
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the theme is it pays to be prepared
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because not everyone has a sticky piece
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but everyone can be prepared
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ugh why did i eat it why is it green
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a theme is similar to a moral but a
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moral is more about a specific lesson
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it's trying to teach you a theme could
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be a lesson but it doesn't have to be
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sometimes you can discover the theme by
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asking yourself some big questions
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what did the characters learn
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how did they grow and change
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why did characters act the way they
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acted what's different at the end of the
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story
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and what stays with you after the story
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is over let's go through a folk tale and
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see if answering these questions helps
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us to uncover the theme
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this is a story about a nancy the spider
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a heroic trickster from west africa
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anansi was clever but he wished to be
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wise wiser than everyone in fact he
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decided that he'd take all the wisdom he
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could find all the wisdom in the whole
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world and gather it all inside a little
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clay pot
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but he didn't like having it in the
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house this pot of knowledge
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what if our kid knocks it over he asked
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his wife also what if someone comes over
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in the night and steals it who's coming
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to steal your pot a nancy she asked
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nobody even knows you have it it's not
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safe a nancy cried and he decided to
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hide it i'm going out he said don't
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follow me whatever said osso who went
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back to doing something that was
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actually useful
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anansi wandered through the forest
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lugging this enormous clay pot of wisdom
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never aware that his little son ntikuma
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was following close behind
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not tall enough said anansi looking at a
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cliff
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not deep enough he said frowning at a
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canyon
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aha said a nancy when he came to the
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prickly thorne tree at the edge of the
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forest near a little stream now this
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will do just fine
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anansi had many legs and he was very
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strong but even he could not climb the
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tree and carry the pot of knowledge at
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the same time he scrabbled up the tree
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then slid back down again
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he wiggled up the tree then slid back
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down again he clambered up the tree hey
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dad a nancy's son called out what what i
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said nobody follow me what are you doing
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here anansi cried you should tie the pot
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to your back dad then you can use all
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your legs to climb the tree
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he was right but it didn't matter to a
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nancy i'll teach you to give me advice
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you little miscreant announcer yelled
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shaking his fist
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the same fist that held the handle to
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the pot full of wisdom
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it went sailing into the air as time
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seemed to slow down oh no said anansi oh
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no said a nancy's little son and the pot
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smashed open right there in the stream
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carrying all of a nancy's carefully
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gathered up knowledge into the ocean
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sending it out to the whole world once
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again
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you are in so much trouble in tikuma
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anansi said clambering back down the
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tree and then he said ow ow ow because
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in his haste he had poked himself on the
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thorns of the tree
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his son took off running for home and
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anansi raced after him and as they ran
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it began to rain
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and as the rain came down anansi stopped
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running and began to walk
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and think ntikuma's plan would have
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worked after all
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when he at last caught up with intikuma
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he apologized for losing his temper
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what was the use of all that wisdom if i
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can still be outsmarted by my little son
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he said
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the two of them embraced
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and because of intikum's timely
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interruption a little bit of a nancy's
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knowledge lives in us all today
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so our questions checklist
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what did the characters learn well
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anansi learned that even if he had all
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the wisdom in the world a child could
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still have a better idea than him
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how did the characters grow and change
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anansi apologized for losing his temper
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and realized that he wasn't the only
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person with good ideas
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why did characters act the way they
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acted i think anansi was greedy why else
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would he want to have all the wisdom in
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the world and not share it with anybody
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else
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and what's different at the end of the
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story
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at the end of the story everybody gets a
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little bit from the pot of wisdom it
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flows out into the ocean and gets sent
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to everybody and anansi realized that
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keeping all the wisdom to himself still
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didn't make him the wisest all the time
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finally what stays with you after the
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story is over
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the fact that all of us you me your aunt
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matilda all of us have a little bit of a
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nazi's wisdom inside of us so a theme of
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this story could be anyone can have a
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good idea or wisdom is inside all of us
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what theme would you give this story
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discuss it with your friends your
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classmates your family and let us know
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the theme of all of my videos is and
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shall forever be that you can learn
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anything
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dave it out
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