Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical sequence of events and demonstrating an effective use of techniques such as dialogue, description, and transitional words and phrases.
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| Name |
Description |
| Friend or Foe | Using the case study “Friend or Foe,” students will analyze the situation and then write a fictional narrative using dialogue. They will present their narratives in a variety of ways. |
| Family Creations through Interactions | Using the case study, "Family Creations through Interactions," students will engage in discussion of how our attitudes affect our behavior. The case study is intended to show the connection between attitudes and behaviors. The students will work in a cooperative learning group to complete a summary graphic organizer and rewrite the case study as a narrative writing piece. |
| The Cyber Bully Chronicles Comic, Part 4 | Students will create a fictional narrative describing how someone can positively react to being a witness of cyberbullying, in this lesson plan. Students will create a comic book style scenario using drawing or digital tools and then describe the character’s actions using narrative style writing. |
| Tall Tales: A Tale of Our Own | Students will use tall tales to explore figurative language and to summarize important details to identify the theme. Students will create a narrative writing piece of their own using standard conventions and elements of tall tales. |
| Superhero Narratives | Students create narratives inspired by comic strips. The narratives include all elements of the comic strip including the beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, and ending. Students provide feedback to one another using a rubric to improve their writing. They will also discuss how the setting, characters, characterization, and conflict contribute to the plot of the narrative. |
| Create a Superhero | In this lesson students will focus on character traits of well-known Superheroes before using character traits to create their own Superhero. They will create a digital version of the superhero highlighting multimedia elements that they will showcase additionally through writing. They will close the lesson by creating a fictional narrative writing piece that stars their Superhero. |
| Pourquoi Challenge | During this lesson, students will learn about analyzing literary elements to see how they contribute to the plot and explaining themes of a text through Pourquoi tales. Students will identify these elements and use them to explain the development of themes in Pourquoi tales. Students will use their understanding of these elements to write their own narrative tale. |
| Novel Study-Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan | After reading the novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, students will analyze the perspective of Esperanza while looking at important characterization features and other parts of the plot development. Students will create a narrative writing piece from the perspective of Esperanza based on the characterization features discussed. |
| Using Music & Poetry to Identify A Character’s Perspective | In this lesson, students will listen to several versions of the same song. They will read a poem, and make an illustration to identify how the author develops a character's perspective and how that perspective influences the story. Students will write a narrative using dialogue and description to develop a character’s perspective throughout their story. |
| EXplode A Moment - Using Sensory Details to Write with Imagery | Exploding a moment is magnifying an event much like a film maker does when he zooms in on the action using slow motion. Through the use of photographs or text illustrations, students will become familiar with identifying sensory details and use this imagery to improve their writing. |
| Proverbs: From Understanding to Application—Using Proverbs to Create an Original Narrative | In this lesson, students will identify and analyze common proverbs. They will create a definition and understanding of proverbs using vocabulary strategies for unknown words and phrases. Then using the literary text "The Story of Wang Li," students will identify the proverbs in the text, decipher them, and evaluate the appropriateness of them. The culminating activity will require students to use one of the proverbs from the literary text to create their own narrative in a present-day setting. |
