Theme Pretest

central idea of a work of literature

• RACE

• analyze

• theme

being objective means not having an opinion

• true

• false

a summary is

• writing a paper

• writing a paragraph

• writing enough to give valid details of a text

I think that cheese pizza is the best pizza in the world

• this is an example of an objective statement

• this is an example of a subjective statement

RACE method is

• Restate

  Analyze

  Cite

  Evidence

• Restate

  Answer

  Cite

  Explain

• Review

  Answer

  Criticize

  Examine

the central idea of a story is

• what the reader thinks the story is about

• the climax of the story

• the message or main idea of the story