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What’s My Story?

What’s something you have learned about growing up, becoming your own person, and finding your way in the world? How can you use the tools of personal narrative to compel your audience?

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Creative Artifact

Students will create a writing portfolio that includes a life map, 100-word memoir, and personal narrative. They will integrate key writing techniques for craft, style and language.

Written Commentary

Students compose a literary analysis commentary in which they analyze either a classmate’s essay or their own essay.

Exhibition

Students will share their writing portfolios in a public venue. Suggested options include a “Moth”-style storytelling session, readings at a library or coffee house, and a seminar-style share out with family and friends.

Implementation Notes

Credit Eligibility

  • ELA

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    Humanities

Prerequisites Needed

  • N/A

 

Modular Suggestions

General ELA classes, especially in grades 10 and 11 where students are preparing to write a college essay

Standards Addressed

WRITING

  • W.11-12.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. 
  • W.11-12.1: (for Literary Analysis) Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
  • W.11-12.5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.

 

READING: LITERATURE

  • RL.11-12.3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama
  • RL.11-12.5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
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