03+Unit+Di+by+Interest

=**Writing the Personal Narrative ** UNIT Di by Interest =



** Write about one event in your life... ...The first time you drove ... A sibling being born ... Divorce ... A best friend dying ****

... Imagining the future: Going to college **

Learning Activity: Visualizing a Moment
Computers Projector Flash drive (Transporting documents) ||
 * **Lesson Title** || ** Personal Narrative: Visualizing a Moment using I-Search ** ||
 * **Lesson Summary** || Students will brainstorm a topic for their personal narrative as well as begin practicing describing the moment that will become the topic of their personal narrative. They will define those involved, the setting, and the emotions and thoughts present during that moment in life. Students will describe the moment through draw and paint tools (or Windows Journal). They will include a visual and text using this technology tool to make a complete scene from the story in their life. ||
 * **Materials** || Notebook and Pencil
 * **Technology Tools** || Draw and Paint software ||
 * **Lesson Activities** || ** Pre-Brainstorming: ** Students will make a chart with three columns in their notebook. The columns will be titled "Hellos", "Goodbyes," and "Goals." Students will list 5 firsts under the "Hello" column. These may include a sibling being born, the first day of school, the first time losing a tooth. Under the "Goodbye" column, students will list 5 times in their life that were lasts. These may include breaking up with someone, deaths, divorce, failing at a driving test. Under the "Goals" column, students will list 5 goals that they have for the future that have to do with a present event. They might write about imagining dating or becoming friends with a guy or girl of interest who is in the class at the moment, getting their parents back together after a fight, or passing the class and going on to college. Students will review their notes and circle the one event that they think is the most significant. Students will share voluntarily.


 * Brainstorming: ** Students will represent their circled topic in a visual format. The visual should include details that describe the setting, people involved, dialogue, thoughts, and plot. They will express the details through draw and paint software on individual computers. They will use the many tools of draw and paint software to provide an creative and significant story, one that the reader may understand and imagine by looking at it. This visual will later be used in complete written form for the personal narrative.

Sharing and Feedback: Students will share their visual representation on a voluntary basis. They will show their drawing to the class after printing it or projecting it onto the projector screen. Students will also have a chance to post it on the bulletin in the room. They will receive feedback verbally during the creative process of drawing and afterward through a rubric. [|Rubric] ||
 * **Technology Activity Options** || Paint and Draw software can be extensive. Students have the options within this technology tool to change the font, color, size, and style of the text. They can incorporate photographs. They can use the cursor to draw a picture, using many colors, thicknesses of the pen and brush, and other tools within the software, such as zooming in and out to draw precise details. Students are also given the choice to make the picture minimal or the text minimal, the picture extensive and detailed or the text extensively descriptive. ||
 * **Differentiation/Extensions** || Students are using a draw and paint software to depict a moment in their life that is significant to them. The choice of that event and how they express it depends on the student's choice. The student must have some text and a visual using draw and paint software, yet the amount and the way they express it will be upon the decision of the student. This allow for those who express themselves easily through drawing, photos, or text may do so. Each visual representation will be part of the creative process of writing their personal narrative: brainstorming. This brainstorming process will allow for the freedom to develop description, dialogue, plot, and character development, using any amount or text and drawing of the draw and paint tools provided by the software. ||