Reading activity for tomorrow

Tonight for homework the students will have read the folk tail "One Thousand and One Nights." It's a middle-eastern collection of stories that flow one right into the other (this is the original story of Aladdin). There's always a moral or theme to be learned from these and as a means of getting to that moral lesson we're going to highlight the aspects of the story like characterization and author's purpose and so forth. But I'm gonna do that using note cards. Each pair of students will have an index card and will write on the back of the index card how their theme or aspect of the story relates to the moral of the story. After that we will introduce the next story. It should go well. Anyone do stuff like this before? I think Kim does the index card stuff sometimes.