CURRICULUM MAP: 10045.map
Sophomore Writing Workshop (ACP/SCP/GEN) 121, 122, 123
Writing in the Narrative Mode
TIME FRAME: 5-6 days
GRADE: 10
CONTACT:
MAP LEVEL: 4
23.2 LANGUAGE ARTS - EXPLORE AND RESPOND TO LITER
23.2.1.9.1
-- Students will identify the various conventions within a genre and apply this understanding to the evaluation of the text.
23.3 LANGUAGE ARTS - COMMUNICATING WITH OTHERS
23.3.1.9.2
-- Students will listen to or read a variety of genres to use as models for writing in different modes.
23.3.1.9.3
-- Students will use the appropriate features of persuasive, narrative, expository or poetic writing.
23.3.1.9.4
-- Students will write to delight in the imagination.
23.3.2.9.1
-- Students will determine purpose, point of view and audience, and choose an appropriate written, oral or visual format.
23.3.2.9.2
-- Students will apply the most effective processes to create and present a written, oral or visual piece.
23.3.2.9.3
-- Students will revise texts for organization, elaboration, fluency and clarity.
23.4 LANGUAGE ARTS - ENGLISH LANG CONVENTIONS
23.4.1.9.2
-- Students will recognize and understand variations between language patterns.
23.4.2.9.1
-- Students will use sentence patterns typical of spoken and written language to produce text.
23.4.2.9.2
-- Students will evaluate the impact of language as related to audience and purpose.
23.4.3.9.1
-- Students will recognize the difference between standard and nonstandard English and use language appropriately.
23.4.3.9.2
-- Students will demonstrate proficient use of proper mechanics, usage and spelling skills.
23.4.3.9.3
-- Students will use resources for proofreading and editing.
What makes narrative writing effective?
What is Narration?
The practice of telling stories is almost as old as language itself. Ancient peoples told stories to try to explain the world around them and the mysteries of the universe. They told stories to entertain one another, to teach their children how to behave, and to commemorate heroic deeds and important events. At first people told their tales orally, but later they began writing the stories down. Narration is writing that tells a story. Whether real or invented, oral or written, narration typically includes a plot, or series of events, that centers around a conflict, or struggle; one or more characters who participate in the plot; and a setting, or time and place, in which the plot unfolds. The person telling the story is called the narrator, and the story itself is often called a narrative.
How Narrative Writing Fits Into Your Life
Most people have some narrative skill without being aware of it. If you tell how you spent your day or describe an unexpected encounter with a famous person, you’re narrating a real-life story. If you concoct a long, silly tale to get a child you baby-sit for to go to sleep, you’re telling a fictional story.
You also encounter narration all of the time in your everyday life. Narration is the basis of most TV and film entertainment and of the most popular forms of writing – novels, biographies, news stories, even comic strips. Because so many people enjoy narration, it is sometimes combined with instruction, persuasion, or other forms of communication to make them more appealing and memorable. Politicians giving a speech, for example, often illustrate their points with brief personal stories about themselves or others.
(Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook, Annotated Teacher' s
Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997, 31-32)
Paper Options
*Childhood Memoir
*Family Myth
Paper Expectations
*MLA format
*Beginning, middle, end and title
*Characterization (key image for each character)
*Setting (sense of place)
*Dialogue
*Active verbs
*Plot builds to a dramatic moment
*Acceptable level of fluency
*Grammatical correctness
When writing in the narrative mode students will:
-- Develop and utilize prewriting skills and strategies,
-- Develop and incorporate drafting skills,
-- Develop and implement editing skills and strategies,
-- Recognize and implement effective sequencing of events that build to a dramatic moment,
-- Recognize, identify, and incorporate the elements of a story (setting, character, conflict, theme),
-- Recognize the different points of view for story telling and utilize the most effective one,
-- Understand the different methods characterization, both direct and indirect, and include effective characterization in the story,
-- Write dialogue that is realistic, relevant, and in the correct format,
-- Recognize active verbs and incorporate them into the narrative,
-- Improve diction,
-- Produce a final draft that meets standards of acceptability in fluency and grammatical correctness.
All students will:
-- Be instructed on the steps of the writing process,
-- Be shown models of quality writing in the narrative mode,
-- Will conference with their teacher to discuss the quality of their writing, and to determine the steps necessary for improvement,
-- Receive written feedback on the quality of their writing.
Assessment of student writing in the descriptive mode includes student-teacher conferencing to determine successful completion of editing, as well as meeting standards for acceptable quality of the final draft. Each teacher will provide written feedback of the drafts and of the final paper.
Prentice Hall. Writer' s Solution. Platinum Sourcebook. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall, 1997.
Sample Narratives may include:
-- "Confess, Early and Often" by Jane Smiley
-- An excerpt from Black Boy by Richard Wright
-- "The Grinch Who Saved Christmas" by Jamie Lee Swift
-- An excerpt from Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
-- An excerpt from October Sky: A Memoir by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
-- "The Thief" by John (Yannie) Pergantis
-- "An American Childhood" by Annie Dillard
-- An excerpt from Uh-oh by Robert Fulgham
All sample essays can be found on the eschool website in the SWW folder at .