Overarching themes

OBJECTIVE: The brain is a pattern-seeking device, and year-long, overarching themes and/or questions can help students see patterns in the prolific literature being read and genres being written.  It is important to note that, usually and often, these overarching themes and questions will be devised by the students themselves.  For example:



The Brain—is wider than the Sky—

For—put them side by side—

The one the other will contain

With ease—and You—beside.

~Emily Dickinson