Final product:
You will write a narrative that accompanies a piece of artwork. You will take on the role of a storyteller hired by a museum to contribute to an exhibit that combines visual art with written art. Your audience is made up of museum guests. Your narrative will demonstrate an interesting hook, narrative and storytelling techniques, and reflection.
Requirements:
Requirements:
- 2-4 pages long, double-spaced, size 12 font.
- Create a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters using details and "show don't tell" strategies.
- Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, pacing, description, or reflection.
- Create a narrative arc with a beginning, middle, and end.
- Revise and edit your work.
- Submit on Turnitin.com
Essential Questions:
- Why do we write?
- What does good narrative writing look and feel like?
- Why is narrative writing valuable?
Workshops in this unit:
- outlining
- editing and revising
- introduction writing
- elements of narrative writing (such as characters, conflict, theme, etc.)
- incorporating dialogue (use of quotations, character development)
- creating vivid imagery with descriptive details
- "reading between the lines" or, "show, don't tell"
- addressing the "so what?" factor in a story
Standards assessed in this unit:
ALL UNITS:
IDEAS:
WRITING:
- Grammar: demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing. (Resolve issues of complex or contested grammar usage). (LF.1.b)
- Revising and Editing: 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. (W.5.a)
- Respect: listen to those who are speaking, follow class rules and policies, demonstrate classroom decorum.
- Responsibility: come to class prepared, stay organized, do your share of group work, turn assignments in on time.
- Collaboration: contribute to group discussions, contribute to group work in a way that is not domineering or lazy, share your ideas and respect the ideas and opinions of others.
- Communication: speak in English. Speak clearly and audibly when you are required to do so.
IDEAS:
- Analyzing Structure: analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g. parallel plot and manipulate time (e.g. pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, surprise. (RL.5.a)
WRITING:
- Exposition: engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a thoughtful progression of experiences or events. (W.3.a)
- Narrative Techniques: use narrative techniques such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. (W.3.b)
- Language Use: use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. (W.3.d)
- Conclusion: provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative. (W.3.e)