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Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Narrative Essay


Content Area: English

Name: Diane Pyo


Grade Level: 9th grade

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):


CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and
well-structured event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.C
Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.D
Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events,
setting, and/or characters.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:
Big Idea / Unit Goal
Student will examine and explore the following questions through their writing:
What is good story telling?
How can language be used to engage the reader and listener?
How can information be used to support the development of a story?
What are the essential elements to a story?
Objective

Students will create their own narratives using sensory rich details that appeal to the readers sense of sight,
hearing, touch, smell, and taste when appropriate.
Students will use precise language and relevant details that help to develop the story.
Student will write a narrative that is well-structured with a coherently sequenced story.

Unit Summary:

The purpose of this unit on Writing Narrative is to help students realize they possess the basic tool for good communication and how it can be utilized when writing a

narrative. Good communication begins with well-chosen details that is often first experienced by the student's senses and perception. Student will experiment will
language particularly descriptions of the 5 senses-sight, sound, taste, smell, touch- and reflect on how language effects style, tone, and storyline. Then, they will craft
their own narrative to produce the desired effect in the reader or listener minds through descriptive imagery wit a well-constructed coherent narrative.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:

Formative:

Summative:

Blindfold Activities
Lesson 1

The Sandlot Retold

Final Narrative Essay and Writing Reflection

Student Learning
Objective:
Student will learn to use
5 sensory descriptions

Acceptable Evidence
(Assessments):
Student has used
language that
incorporates smell, sight,
touch, sound, and taste
appropriately.

Lesson Activities:

Blindfold Activities1. Give each group of student a bag full of goodies and a blindfold.
2. Blindfold one person in each group and put them in a separate area
where it is unlikely for them to hear others comments.
3. Show an object and get the students to describe it using their senses;
e.g. for an egg shell the student would write, for color off white, under
touch sharp edges, smooth, etc. When the one group has finished with
an item pass it to the next group until the whole class has finished
describing all the items in the bad.
4. Then the blindfolded student is going to guess the items without seeing
them as the student begin to describe the object without saying the actual
name. For example, the students can say, its a round type of meet that
can crack if hit against a surface. The outside is smooth and off white.

Lesson 2
Student Learning
Objective:
Student will examine
important elements in a
story; setting, character,
plot. In addition, they will
write a story with
coherent plot
development;

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

The student will identify


three essential story
elements in their writing;
setting, character, and
plot. They will also,
describe the
introduction, conflict, and
resolution in the Sandlot

The Sandlot RetoldShow an episode of a scene from The Sandlot Chapters 18, 19, 20 and 21 on
the DVD which show the boys attempting to retrieve the ball that has gone over
the fence.
After showing the episode, students will describe what happened in the Sandlot
scenes. They will include details about the setting, the characters, the event, and

introduction, conflict,
and resolution

scene.

the outcome. Pretending that their reader has never seen the episode, students
will retell the story in writing. In completing this assignment, students will
automatically write narratives.

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

Student incorporates 4
out 5 of the senses in the
description of the setting
and character.
Meanwhile, the details
and description helped
to develop the plot
moving the story
forward.

Final Narrative Essay and Writing Reflection


Applying the lecture notes, peer editing response, and instructor feedback,
Student will write a final draft of their narrative essay. The focus will be on
choosing details that serve to enhance the development of the story, precise
wording and sensory rich language that engages the readers imagination.

Lesson 3
Student Learning
Objective:
To write a narrative using
effective technique, wellchosen details, and wellstructured event
sequences.

Unit Resources:
Thesaurus; http://www.thesaurus.com/
Dictionary: http://www.dictionary.com/

Useful Websites:

OWL: https://www.roanestate.edu/owl/describe.html
Rubric; http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson116/NarrativeRubric.pdf

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