Language Arts- Unit on Personal Narrative writings.
Day One of Five Days (My classes are 55 minutes)

Connection to Kentucky Learner Goals:

1. Students make sense of a variety of materials they listen to and read. (1.2)
2. Students make sense of various things they observe. (1.3)
3. Students will write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes. (1.1)
4. Student use what they already know to acquire new knowledge, develop new skills or interpret new experiences. (6.2)
5. Students expand their understanding of existing knowledge by making connections with new knowledge, skills, and experiences. (6.3)

1. Students will watch a clip from a movie.
2. Students will listen to a personal narrative writing.
3. Students will participate in a class questioning activity.
4. Students will review webbing and outlining techniques for organization of personal narrative writing.
5. Student will choose a topic for personal narrative.
6. Students will use a brainstorming technique to develop their personal narrative topic.

1. A personal event the teacher doesn't mind sharing with the students.  Mine was Bungee Jumping.
2. Paper
3. Pencil
4. TV and VCR
5. Pictures of my Bungee Jump
6. Movie "How to make an American Quilt"   Note- You will want to choose  a movie relevant to your personal narrative writing.
7. Personal Narrative about quilting with my grandmother. Insert your Personal Narrative

•         A Day before class:

1. Select an event in your life that you don't mind sharing with students and construct a web/outline of the event.
2. "Collect pictures or another type of hands on materials for students to observe.  I could have brought a rope or a harness to class.
3. Prepare movie for class tomorrow by setting the scene where the women are quilting.
4. Bring in Mamma's Quilts
5. Personal Narrative about quilting

• The day of class before the students arrived:

1. Outline of today's class.
2. Write on the board a brief P.N. writing.  I wrote. "I went Bungee Jumping."
3. Set desk in a half circle or arrange for students to set on the floor.  I want to be in a warm comfortable setting.
4. Set up the TV and VCR and insert movie.

•         Once Students enter classroom

1. Go over the outline for the day.
2. Give a brief summary of the movie and why we are watching a clip from the movie.  The ladies are making a quilt depicting where love resides.  Each block represents a moment in their lives where they found love.
3. Share with the student your personal narrative.  Mine was about quilting with my grandmother.  A personal narrative is a representation of a particular time in your live.  It is easier to write when the topic is meaningful.
4. Encourage students to choose a topic for their personal narrative that is important to them.  A moment in life that they recall with vivid details.
5. After discussing various brainstorming techniques, the students will be encouraged to participate in a brainstorming activity involving Bungee Jumping.
6. I pointed to the board "I went bungee jumping".
7. Ask the students what is wrong with this writing.
8. Reply: Boring, Not enough information.
9. After soliciting two volunteers, I prompt the students to use the brainstorming method of asking questions about the bungee jumping experience.  The two volunteers wrote the questions on the board as the students asked me.  When all questions have been asked, I will answer the questions.  Focusing on all the questions the students ask.
10. Student choose a topic for personal narrative.
11. Student will use a brainstorming technique to develop their personal narrative topic.

Reflection of the lesson plan:

• Using quilts and having concrete examples were helpful in teaching the lesson.

Using the story "Bungee Jumping" showed the students the effective use of questioning to form a story outline.
 
 
 

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