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Unit 7Language ArtsProject

Write a Personal Narrative

Rubric

Step 9: Tell a Personal Narrative Orally

Project Submission

Step 8: Add Audio or Visuals to an oral Narrative

Step 7: Use Progressive Verb Tenses

Step 6: Use Subject-Verb Agreement

Step 5: Use Sensory Details

STEP 4: Use Concrete Words and Phrases

STEP 3: Write a Narrative About a Real Experience

STEP 2: Organize a Personal Narrative

STEP 1: Recall Personal Experiences

Guideline for the Steps

Project Description

Table of Contents

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.

ONCE UPON A TIME...

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 well written. Different sentence types are used.

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

Sentences are often not well written and mostly too simple.

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

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.

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

Sentences are expertly written. Different sentence types are used.

15 pts

20 pts

10 pts

20 pts

5 pts

10 pts

15 pts

5 pts

10 pts

15 pts

20 pts

5 pts

The prompt is poorly addressed.

The prompt is well addressed.

The prompt is fully and expertly addressed.

Rubric (how you will be graded)

Organization

Sentences

The prompt is partly addressed.

Ideas

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.

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.

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

Spelling and/or grammar show expert understanding.

Spelling and/or grammar show good understanding.

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

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

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

14 pts

18 pts

9 pts

4 pts

4 pts

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14 pts

1 pts

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3 pts

18 pts

4 pts

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

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

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

Rubric (how you will be graded)

Grammar and Spelling

Graphics/ Presentation

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

Word Choice

Due Friday, March 22th

Lesson 31

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.

Recall Personal Experiences

Step 1

Due Friday, March 22th

Sequence Chart

Lesson 31

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

Organize a Personal Narrative

Step 2

Due Tuesday, March 26th

rough draft document

Lesson 32

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

Write a Narrative About a Real Experience

Step 3

Due Wednesday, March 27th

Lesson 33

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.

Use Concrete Words and Phrases

Step 4

Due Wednesday,March 27th

Lesson 33

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.

Use Sensory Details

Step 5

Due Thursday,March 28th

Lesson 34

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.

Use Subject-Verb Agreement

Step 6

Due Friday,March 29th

Lesson 34

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.

Use Progressive Verb Tenses

Step 7

Due Monday, April 1st

Lesson 35

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.

Add Audio or Visualsto an oral Narrative

Step 8

Due Tuesday, April 2nd

Lesson 35

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.

Tell a Personal Narrative Orally

Step 9

Due Wednesday, April 3rd

rough draft document

Lesson 35

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 narrativeAudio or visual recordingAny other support documentation showing your process for making your narrative such as notes, drawings, or organizers

Project Submission

Step 10