Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Lesson Goals:
o Discussion:
Students will share memorable events with the teacher and the
teacher will make a list on the whiteboard.
Modeling
o Teacher will read aloud Chapter 3 of Where the Red Fern Grows.
The teacher will elicit discussion about family members in the story
and how close-knit they are and why. The teacher will also ask
students to describe different family members mentioned in the
story, and will re-produce their answers in a personal narrative
format.
o Students look through magazines that have interviews of famous
people and read through the short narratives about those people.
Coached Practice
o Students will be asked to work in groups to form questions to ask
someone in their family. The teacher will guide students to form
questions about a specific family story, a family members life when
they were a different age, or a family story that was told to them
with the purpose of teaching them something
o Partner check and class check on the interview questions
Independent Activity
o Students will interview a chosen family member at home.
o Students will come back to fill in a personal narrative handout using
the information they got from the interview.
o Students will write their personal narratives and check their work
with a partner.
Assessment
o Students will present their personal narratives to the class.
o Partners will give feedback based on a peer-checking rubric.
o Students will edit their personal narratives based on the feedback and
hand the final copy in to the teacher.