Unit: Narrative Writing

Lessons

1. Narrative Writing: A Good Paragraph

   SWBAT define a paragraph; list the main parts of a paragraph.

    
2. Narrative Writing: Defining Narrative

   SWBAT define a narrative; list and define the main parts of a narrative; identify the conflict and resolution in sample narratives
   

    
3. Narrative Writing: Choosing the Best Narrative Topic

   SWBAT evaluate the quality of narrative topics, according to the narrative topic tester.
   

    
4. Narrative Writing: Writing Topic Sentences

   Objective: SWBAT define topic sentence and generate suitable topic sentences that state the main idea of their paragraphs.
   

    
5. Narrative Writing.Troubleshooting Topic Sentences

   Objective: SWBAT identify unsuitable topic sentences; turn fragments into topic sentences; distinguish between a supporting detail and topic sentence.
   

    
6. Narrative Writing: Show Don't Tell

   [The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the overall concept of show, don’t tell. Later on, I teach them more prescriptive ways to show, not tell: Ba Da Bing, using active verbs, incorporating dialogue, etc.]
   
   Objective: SWBAT show, not tell in their writing OR transform vague sentences into descriptive sentences.
   

    
7. Narrative Writing: Ba Da Bing

   Objective: SWBAT add one Ba Da Bing sentence to their narrative pararaphs.
   
   

    
8. Narrative Writing: So What?

   Objective: SWBAT add a concluding sentence that addresses the “so what” of a narrative.
   

    
9. Narrative Writing: Using a Rubric

   Objective: SWBAT define rubric, list the categories of a writing rubric, use the rubric to evaluate quality of a party and quality of a paragraph