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- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students generate a list of components for a personal narrative. They analyze a popular song that contains these elements and then write a piece to document a written snapshot of a personal experience. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students examine how an imaginative narrative can be a circular journey. They identify characters that appeared in the real and the imaginative parts of a story and define a circular journey and explain how to use that format in his/her own writing. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students use the story elements of art and literature of the 1950s by developing a story, comprehending someone else's story, and diagramming the five elements of plot. They create, revise, edit, and publish their own personal narrative. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students are introduced to the techniques of proper writing. After reading various biographies and autobiographies, they compare and contrast their own lives to the ones they read. In groups, they develop questions to interview one of their family members and individually write their own narratives. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students describe the slave narrative and its impact in the abolitionist movement. Gain experience in working with the slave narrative as a resource for historical study. Explore themes of self-actualization and spiritual freedom within the slave narrative. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze a variety of rhetorical devices including metaphor, hyperbole, metonomy and imagery. They read samples of autobiographies, work in groups to complete writing skills activities and produce individual personal narratives. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students compose their own narrative story based on an image of a child laborer. They practice their note taking skills and identify the parts of a narrative story that develops complex characters, plot structure, point of view and setting. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 12th
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Students use a database to find and read examples of slave narratives. In groups, they read the various narratives and discuss their feelings about them. They also research the time period in which the narratives were written to end the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the idea of traditional oral narratives and divide them into genres. They explore the genres of context, motifs and variants. Each student finds oral narratives in their own lives and practice retelling them in their own words. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students identify personal experience narratives in their own lives through telling stories themselves and collecting from family members or other adults. They study personal experience narratives in Swapping Stories and compare vernacular, or everyday language in these stories with literary versions of folktales. Students also compare personal experience narratives with oral histories. Full Review »

