[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to write an essay that has only one purpose: to tell a story about you. It's called a personal narrative, personal because it is all about...

A learning module that teaches students how to write a personal narrative in six lessons: Introduction, Focusing on Your Topic, Narrowing Your Focus, Developing Your Central Idea-The Nitty Gritty, Writing Your Narrative, and Your Turn.

A learning module that teaches students how to write a personal narrative with five mini-lessons: Introduction, Consider a Slice of Your Life, FOCUS!, Develop Your Central Idea, and Wrap Up and Springboard to Writing.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write a personal narrative with five mini-lessons: Introduction, The Plan, The Hook/Introduction, The Body/The Story, and The...

A twelve-part learning module with links to images of notes, web sites, and videos that teach students how to write a personal narrative.

Find a matched set of activities--each with a slightly different disciplinary emphasis--that takes participants through a close examination of the work of contemporary California artists Joan Brown and Jay DeFeo. Their work often...

This instructional activity engages students in working with narrative reading and writing. Students will listen to different stories and fill out story maps for them. Then students will plan a personal narrative about a "surprise" on a...

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

Uses excerpts from Gary Paulsen's memoirs as examples of imagery in personal narratives. Includes detailed lessons and PDF files of handouts and evaulation rubrics.

Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.

This is a lesson plan geared toward first through third grades, cross-curricular, dealing with economics and literature. "Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts:...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...

After reading A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park students complete a writing assignments. The writer first completes a graphic organizer about a life-changing experience or an experience from which a instructional activity has been...

This lesson is designed to help young scholars understand plot dimensions and literary devices while writing a multi-faceted short story that has many possible outcomes. For inspiration, students will analyze songs that tell stories for...

This lesson focuses on providing an overview of contemporary literature and the writing process. It defines contemporary literature and the key terms of the writing process, and provides links to the Contemporary Literature and...

In this lesson plan, students will write narrative paragraphs about specific events in their lives. Then students will paint images and symbols from their paragraphs onto pieces of fabric, which will be used to make quilts.

A lesson plan where young scholars collect local primary documents and examine the interplay between national, state, local, and personal history.

Need help with doing a descriptive paper or personal narrative? Need a writing lesson plan? Meet Virginia Hamilton and follow her step-by-step guide to writing. When done, you are eligible for a certificate signed by this author.

Point of View is television's longest running showcase for independent non-fiction films. This particular feature provides insight regarding alternative means of energy, transport, and the consumption of natural resources. Video, games,...

This lesson plan directs children to learn about their family histories by visiting sites that connect them to the homelands of their ancestors.

SCU uses StoryCorps' tested interviewing techniques-combined with outstanding radio broadcasts and animated shorts-to support high school learners in the development of identity and in drawing connections between their unique strengths...

A lesson in which students gain empathy for people who lived during a historical time period by writing a first-person story with experiences that would have happened during that time.

This lesson explains how characters develop in fiction writing. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives

Through a series of six activities, students read about, connect to, and draw conclusions about the immigrant experience, via personal experience and a collection of resources, including Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," oral...