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f =**Writing the Personal Narrative **Unit Di by Learning Profile =

    

**//Stories are simply real events seen through bifocals.// - Mrs. Traughber**


===**//Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.// - Mark Twain ** ===




**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; color: rgb(255, 128, 0); text-align: right; display: block;">//I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.// ~James Michener ** <span style="font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;">

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===<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); text-align: center; display: block;">Activity: Drafting the Personal Narrative ===

__<span style="font-size: 150%; color: rgb(32, 157, 32); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center; display: block;">Tic-Tac-Toe __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center; display: block;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 121%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 121%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Student Explanation:** Have you ever played Tic-Tac-Toe? Three in a row wins! By the time you complete this project, you will ALL be winners.

Choose three of the nine squares below to make a Tic-Tac-Toe connection. You can choose three across, up, down, or diagonal. Use the websites or software and directions provided within each box to create three different drafts of your personal narrative. Read the rubrics in each box to make sure you have met all requirements for each draft. Make sure you choose three boxes that you feel most comfortable with. These drafts will help you organize the characters, plot, description, and audience awareness within your story. They will help you develop a well written story that will be transformed into a final, written draft using Microsoft Word later in class. Take a peek at the rubric that we will use in the future for the final draft to understand the big picture [|Personal Narrative: Final Draft]


 * = <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(128, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 23); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;"> Analytic ||= <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(128, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 23); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center; display: block;"> Interactive ||= <span style="text-align: center; display: block; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(128, 0, 128); background-color: rgb(0, 255, 23); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Introspective ||
 * < [[image:numbers.jpg width="103" height="103" align="left" caption="Math/Logic" link="http://sinfulorigamipaper.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/numbers.jpg"]] **Technology:** Publisher or Word


 * Product: ** Make a time-line of the order of details of one important event in your life using the pyramid structure ([|Freytag's Pyramid] ) Provide at least 10 major details, such as dialogue, internal narration, or action between two characters to summarize the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion. Make sure it is easy to read and colorful. Print your work. Be prepared to share in class.


 * Rubric:** [|Logic Smarts] ||= [[image:dancing.jpg width="145" height="134" align="left" caption="Body Smart" link="http://sinfulorigamipaper.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/numbers.jpg"]]** Technology: ** Publisher
 * Product: ** Think of the literary terms on your vocabulary list, such as internal narration, dialogue, climax, and conflict. Create a game of concentration to match the literary terms with concrete examples from your personal narrative draft. For example, match a card, "dialogue" with another card that has an example of dialogue from your story. There should be at least 16 cards, 8 matching cards. Be prepared to share in class.


 * Rubric:** [|Body Smarts] ||= [[image:madcow.jpg width="101" height="127" align="left" caption="Wonder Smart" link="http://funnyfarmart.com/graphics/madcow.jpg"]]**Technology: [|Xtranormal]

Product: ** Have you ever wondered how events in your life would be different if they happened somewhere else and at another time in history? Use the video producing software to create a cartoon of one important event in your life. You will need to include characters, dialogue, and internal narration to help your readers visualize the plot. Remember, you will be imagining that this event took place somewhere and sometime than it really did occur. Make sure your video is at least 3 minutes long. Be prepared to share in class.


 * Rubric: [|Wonder Smarts]** ||
 * = [[image:Music_Scale.jpg width="131" height="131" align="left" caption="Music Smart" link="https://www.tootstubing.com/catalog/images/Music_Scale.jpg"]] **Technology:** [|Jam Studio]


 * Product:** Produce an original song of any genre about one event that happened in your life. The lyrics must be at least 4 stanzas with each having at least 4 lines. the musical beat must reflect the mood of your story. Save the file so that it can be shared with the class through You Tube.


 * Rubric: [|Music Smarts]** ||= [[image:people.jpg width="137" height="128" align="left" caption="People Smart" link="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/05/090519214936-large.jpg"]] **Technology:** [|Prezi]


 * Product:** Produce a Prezi to present an explanation of one event in your life. The explanation of the plot and characters should be at least 7-10 sentences. Interview someone who was present during this important event and include the interview in your Prezi to help the audience understand the plot and characters. The interview should include 5-7 questions. Be prepared to share in class.

||= **Technology:** Comic Life software
 * Rubric:** [|People Smarts]


 * Product:** Use Comic Life to create a comic strip of one important event in your life. The comic strip must be at least 10 boxes. The boxes should include graphics and dialogue to help your readers visualize the characters and plot in your story. Print your work so that it can be shared with the class.


 * Rubric: [|Picture Smarts]** ||
 * = [[image:IMG_0789.JPG width="139" height="177" align="left" caption="Nature Smart"]] **Technology: [|PostCardMaker]

Product:** Use Post Card Maker to produce a post card summarizing an important event in your life. Write 10 sentences about what happened and who was involved to someone who would understand your story. Perhaps you could write to someone who was actually there to remind them what happened. Make sure you decorate your card with a picture of nature that is a representation the event. Be prepared to explain why as you briefly share in front of the class. Print your work.


 * Rubric: [|Nature Smarts]** ||= **[[image:word_magnets.jpg width="146" height="174" align="left" caption="Word Smart" link="http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/flickr-words.jpg"]] Technology: [|Web Poster Wizard]

Product: ** Visit the link above to create a poster of one event in your life. Make sure to provide an explanation of the plot and characters in 7-10 sentences and answer the 5W's: //Who? What? When? Why? Where? ...How?// Add picutures, clipart, or colorful designs to help your audience visualize your story. Be prepared to present in class. (Registration required) **

Rubric: [|Word Smarts] ** ||= ** Technology: ** Power Point **

Product: ** Write five journal entries on how you felt, what you thought, smelled, tasted, heard, or touched during an important event in your life. Each journal entry should be 5-7 sentences with description and details. Present your five journal entries through a Power Point presentation. You may include pictures and creative texts and titles to help your readers understand the plot and character development. Be prepared to present in class. **

Rubric: [|Self Smarts] ** ||

Projector Flash drive (Transporting documents) See above for explanations ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;"> **Lesson Title** || ** Personal Narrative: Drafting the Personal Narrative ** ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;"> **Lesson Summary** || It is all too often that students trap themselves into the pitfall of writing only one draft without revising, editing, and rewriting to make the piece flow. Once a student types his or her work onto the computer, they feel finished even though the development of characters, plot, description, and audience awareness has only just begun. In this lesson, students will be asked to write three drafts of their personal narrative. Choosing among the nine intelligences depicted in the Tic-Tac-Toe board above, students will rework their drafts in three ways. This will promote motivation and perspective while rewriting in order to prepare for writing a final draft in a following lesson. Directions and rubrics for each activity are provided within each square. The rubric for the final draft that will be used in future lessons can also be found by clicking, [|Final Rubric] ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;"> **Materials** || Computers
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;"> **Technology Tools** || See "Technology" for each area of intelligence. ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;"> **Lesson Activities** || **<span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Drafting: ** All directions for drafting are provided for each intelligence in each Tic-Tac-Toe square.

**Sharing and Feedback:** Students will share their drafts in various ways: printing, posting online, presenting through computer and projector. They will receive feedback verbally during the creative process and after presenting. Individual rubrics are provided for focus. ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 110%;"> **Differentiation/Extensions** || In order for students to learn to the fullest, they need to be provided with activities that will encourage their talents and intelligences to shine. Each activity is designed to focus on each of the nine intelligences. Explanations are provided above in the Tic-Tac-Toe board. ||