The document provides instructions for students to comment on the theme of the novel "A Long Way Gone" using a graphic organizer. It tells students to get into groups of 4 and count off, then directs them on how to comment on the theme by writing down initial ideas, a prediction based on the theme, responding to another's comment, or responding thoughtfully in another way. It also provides an example quote from the novel related to the theme.

1. A Long Way Gone

2. First things first…
Get out your GGS graphic organizer and Poisonwood
Bible response question – I will stamp it!
Count off 1-8
Get into your number groups (groups of 4)

3. How to comment on the theme
Write down the first ideas, words, or what the theme
means to you.
Write a prediction about the novel based on the
theme.
Write a response to another person’s comment.
Feel free to respond to the theme in another
thoughtful way.

4. Quote Bank/Theme Example
"The only wars I knew of were those that I had read
about in books or seen in movies such as Rambo: First
Blood, and the one in neighboring Liberia that I had
heard about on the BBC news. My imagination at ten
years old didn't have the capacity to grasp what had
taken away the happiness of the refugees" (6).