When life brings you lemons .. write about it! Scholars work with partners to complete graphic organizers analyzing two narratives. Next, they develop an outline for their narrative writing assignment about a personal experience with adversity. 

Concepts

Narrative Writing, personal narratives, personal narrative writing, adversity, essay outlines

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Allow beginning English learners to write their narratives using simple sentences, sentence frames, a word bank, and illustrations

Classroom Considerations

• Serves as the sixth lesson in the 10-part Grade 6 ELA Module 2B Unit 3 series
• Prepare the academic word wall in advance

Pros

• Offers tips for differentiated instruction
• Includes helpful teaching notes

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.6.3.a W.6.3.b L.6.1.a L.6.1.b L.6.1.c