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Unit 7Language Arts Project

Write a Personal Narrative

Table of Contents

Project Description

Rubric

Guideline for the Steps

Step 6: Use Subject-Verb Agreement

STEP 1: Recall Personal Experiences

STEP 2: Organize a Personal Narrative

Step 7: Use Progressive Verb Tenses

STEP 3: Write a Narrative About a Real Experience

Step 8: Add Audio or Visuals to an oral Narrative

STEP 4: Use Concrete Words and Phrases

Step 9: Tell a Personal Narrative Orally

Step 5: Use Sensory Details

Project Submission

ONCE UPON A TIME...

Using the steps of the writing process, students write a personal narrative about a real experience from their lives. The narrative should be about a a goal they reached or a challenge they had to overcome. Their narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Their narrative should be at least five paragraphs long.

Rubric (how you will be graded)

Organization

Sentences

Ideas

A hook expertly draws the reader in. The order is clear. The writing flows expertly from one idea to the next to tell a story.

Sentences are expertly written. Different sentence types are used.

The prompt is fully and expertly addressed.

20 pts

20 pts

20 pts

Sentences are well written. Different sentence types are used.

15 pts

15 pts

A hook draws the reader in. The order is clear. The writing flows well from one idea to the next to tell a story.

15 pts

The prompt is well addressed.

10 pts

Sentences are sometimes well written. Often, they are too simple.

10 pts

The prompt is partly addressed.

A hook is tried, but it does not draw the reader in. The order is mostly clear. The writing mostly flows well from one idea to the next to tell a story.

10 pts

5 pts

Sentences are often not well written and mostly too simple.

5 pts

The prompt is poorly addressed.

A hook is missing or unclear. The order is unclear and/or the writing does not flow well from one idea to the next.

5 pts

Rubric (how you will be graded)

Grammar and Spelling

Graphics/ Presentation

Word Choice

Headings and type are easy to read and expertly placed to help the reader. Graphics are clear and cited. They creatively show ideas.

Words are expertly used to make the reader see and feel what the writer is seeing and feeling.

Spelling and/or grammar show expert understanding.

4 pts

18 pts

18 pts

Spelling and/or grammar show good understanding.

Words are used well to make the reader see and feel what the writer is seeing and feeling.

14 pts

Headings and type are easy to read and in a logical order. Graphics are clear and cited. They show ideas well.

14 pts

3 pts

Spelling and/or grammar show some understanding. Mistakes may make writing hard to understand.

Headings and type are mostly easy to read and well placed. Graphics are often clear and mostly cited. They are connected to ideas but do not always show them well.

Words sometimes make the reader see and feel what the writer is seeing and feeling.

9 pts

9 pts

2 pts

Words do not make the reader see and feel what the writer is seeing and feeling.

Spelling and/or grammar show limited understanding. Mistakes make writing hard to understand.

4 pts

Headings and type are hard to read and/or the order is unclear. Graphics (if required) are unclear, not cited, and/or not always connected to ideas.

4 pts

1 pts

Recall Personal Experiences

Step 1

Due Friday, March 22th

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 1: Think about different times in your life when you reached a goal or overcame a challenge.

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Organize a Personal Narrative

Step 2

Due Friday, March 22th

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 2: Fill out the "Beginning" planning notes on a sequence chart. You will turn this in with your final submission

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Sequence Chart

Write a Narrative About a Real Experience

Step 3

Due Tuesday, March 26th

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 3: Write Your rough draft

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rough draft document

Use Concrete Words and Phrases

Step 4

Due Wednesday, March 27th

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 4: Read through your first draft, look for words or phrases that are too vague, and revise those areas to make language more concrete and precise.

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Step 5

Use Sensory Details

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 5: Continue to revise your personal narrative. Read through their revised narrative, look for descriptions that could be improved by adding more details related to the five senses, and revise these areas by adding more sensory details: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

Due Wednesday, March 27th

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Use Subject-Verb Agreement

Step 6

Due Thursday, March 28th

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 6: Edit your personal narrative for subject-verb agreement. Read through the revised draft of your personal narrative, look for areas where the subject does not match the verb used, and edit those areas to fix subject-verb agreement.

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Use Progressive Verb Tenses

Step 7

Due Friday, March 29th

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 7: Edit your personal narrative to use the progressive tense correctly. Read through the revised and edited draft of their personal narrative, look for areas where the progressive tense is used incorrectly, and edit those areas to fix errors in the progressive tense.

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Add Audio or Visualsto an oral Narrative

Step 8

Due Monday, April 1st

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 8: Read through the final draft of your personal narrative, ask yourself questions to decide which areas should be supported by audio or visuals, find or create audio and visuals, and add audio and visuals using computer software or something else.

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Tell a Personal Narrative Orally

Step 9

Due Tuesday, April 2nd

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 9: First, they will read the text out loud to yourself several times, marking up the text to help as you read. While reading, practice body language, expression, and pacing. Then record yourself reading out loud or read in front of a mirror, introduce yourself to the audience and read the narrative out loud. Submit with final draft.

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Step 10

Project Submission

Writing prompt: Write a personal narrative about a goal you reached or a challenge you have overcome. Your narrative should be written from a first-person point of view. It must be a true story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Your narrative should be at least five paragraphs long. Step 3: Upload your personal narrative files. This should include your: Written paper of the narrative Audio or visual recording Any other support documentation showing your process for making your narrative such as notes, drawings, or organizers

Due Wednesday, April 3rd

rough draft document

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