LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 1

The learner will use language to express individual perspectives in response to personal, social, cultural, and historical issues.

Objective 1.01

Narrate an account such as a news story or historical episode which:

  • creates a coherent organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
  • orients the reader/listener to the scene, the people, and the events.
  • engages the reader/listener by establishing a context and creating a point of view.
  • establishes the signficance of events.

Resources aligned to this objective

Resources on the web

Choose your own adventure: A Hypertext writing experience
In this lesson students create original “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories and using web-authoring software, develop their own Internet sites with the parts of the story hyperlinked to each other. After a review of setting, character development,... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Childhood Remembrances: Life and Art Intersect in Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki-Rosa"
Adapted from Carol Jago's Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom, this ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to explore what Jago calls the place "where life and art intersect." Students complete a close reading of Giovanni's poem "Nikki-Rosa" and then... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Beyond the story: A Dickens of a party
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students are invited to attend a 19th Century party as a character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. To play their roles, students must understand the values and customs that Dickens' characters represented... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Ancient Egypt: Stories and myths
In this Xpeditions lesson, students examine stories and myths about ancient Egypt through time. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provided by: National Geographic
Alphabiography project: Totally you
In this lesson, students are engaged in a narrative writing project after reading James Howe's Totally Joe, a young adult novel about a boy named Joe who deals with many adolescent issues—friendships, school, and coming... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink