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Reading Standard 3.6 Identify and analyze
features of themes conveyed through
characters, actions, and images.
Story:
The
Emperor's New Clothes
Focus: Standard 3.6 Themes
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1.2 Use of figures of speech: idioms and hyperbole
2.6 Determine the adequacy and appropriateness of the
evidence for an author's conclusions.
3.6
Identify and analyze features
of themes conveyed through
characters,
actions, and images. |
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 The Emperor’s
New Clothes
by Hans Christian Anderson
This classic story is about an overly proud
and vain emperor, or king, who allows swindlers (clever people who
trick him out of money) to take advantage of him.
In the end, as he wears “invisible clothes” in a parade, only a small
child has the courage to say that the king has nothing on at all.
The King continues walking and pretends that he has on beautiful
clothes, since the swindlers had convinced him that only unworthy and
stupid people would not be able to see the clothes.
Possible themes for this story might include “People will do anything
to keep up appearances so as not to look foolish” or the saying, “A
fool and his money are soon parted”.
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