Assessment Instructions To show what you have learned, you will submit a completed As I Read Graphic Organizer as well as a topic sentence identifying the theme of the chapter you read. You will write only the topic sentence in response to the following prompt: Identify a theme or message of this chapter of War of the Worlds. Remember, theme is what the author is saying about life or people. It is the message that authors want their readers to learn. Take a look at the graphic organizer rubric and the topic sentence rubric to see how your work will be graded.