Theme Identification in "The Luckiest Time of All"

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Activity Overview



Themes, symbols, and motifs come alive when you use a storyboard! In this activity, students will identify a specific theme from the short story, "The Luckiest Time of All", and support their choices with details from the text. In this example, the theme of "The Luckiest Time of All" is luck. Using a spider map and cells with description boxes, students show scenes from the story that illustrate "luck" or "luckiness."

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Student Instructions

Create a storyboard that identifies recurring themes in "The Luckiest Time of All". Illustrate instances of each theme and write a short description below each cell.


  1. Click "Start Assignment".
  2. Identify the theme(s) from "The Luckiest Time of All".
  3. Create an image for three examples from the story that represent this theme.
  4. Write a description of each of the examples.


3 Cell Spider Map

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