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- Lesson plans for teaching focus
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching focus, the first of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Two perspectives on slavery: A comparison of personal narratives
- This activity for grade 11 will help students evaluate and critique authors' perspectives. Students will read two first-person narratives and analyze how each text is influenced by its author's cultural background.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- More vivid word choices: Said is dead
- The students will expand their vocabulary and learn synonyms for overused words. By using the story Chicken Little by Stephen Kellogg, students will see how an acclaimed author uses many different words for "said."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Linda Justice.
- Welcome to my world!: Developing a personal narrative timeline
- Students will create digital, narrative, and drawn versions of a timeline of at least five events of their life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Integration Strategies.
- Oral history through personal narratives
- Students apply their knowledge of story elements to art and literature of the 1950s by developing a story, comprehending someone else's story, and diagramming the five elements of plot. Students will then create, revise, edit, and publish their own personal narrative.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Mary Magee.
- Slave narratives: A genre study
- In this lesson, students will read selected excerpts from slave narratives, determining common characteristics of the genre. Students will then write their own slave narratives as a slave from their region of North Carolina, researching for historical accuracy and incorporating elements of the slave narrative genre to demonstrate understanding.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Walking in the woods with Owl Moon
- This is an integrated project using the book Owl Moon by Jane Yolen. Students will use the story to write a personal narrative, understand the elements of a story, and practice answering open-ended questions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Birty Lightner.
- You can't tell it all!: Narrowing the focus of personal narratives
- Students will learn to focus their personal narratives on just one main event by listing events on a topic and identifying one main event to write about. Focusing their personal narratives on one main event helps students to write about only the important things and leave out events and details that are not related to the main event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Where do I begin?
- Picking a good beginning helps you to focus your story on just one main event. In this lesson students will learn how to pick a good beginning for their personal narratives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Great beginnings
- Good beginnings hook readers and make them want to continue reading. Students will learn the features of good beginnings by reading the beginnings of several narrative picturebooks, and then writing good beginnings for their own narratives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Women of the South in a changing society
- This lesson examines the lives of women in Southern Appalachia and other areas of the south during the Civil War and focuses particular attention on analyzing the historical stereotypes of women of the 19th-century.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Mcpeters and Aletha Aldridge.
- Slavery across North Carolina
- In this lesson for grade 8, students read excerpts from slave narratives to gain an understanding of how slavery developed in each region of North Carolina, and how regional differences created a variety of slave experiences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Narrowing the focus: What's the main event?
- In this lesson, students will learn how to narrow the focus of their personal narrative down to one main event by selecting a more specific title. Good stories are focused on one topic or main event. The reader should be able to tell the most important thing that the story is about. Instead of writing a story about a whole vacation that describes many events, it is a good strategy to write a story about one thing that happened on the vacation-one main event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Eyewitness to the flood
- In this lesson, students will listen to oral history excerpts from Hurricane Floyd survivors and contrast their experiences with the experiences of the characters in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Jim Crow and segregation
- This is an integrated lesson plan that incorporates both eighth grade language arts and history. Using Internet research, literary analysis, and persuasive technique, students will practice reading and writing skills while analyzing the impact of Jim Crow Segregation on African Americans living in North Carolina and elsewhere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Burnetta Barton.
- Great endings
- Sometimes authors end their stories with a memory, a feeling, a wish, or a hope. Other times they end the story by referring back to the language of the beginning. In this lesson, students will examine the characteristics of good endings by reading good endings of narrative picture books. They will then practice writing good endings for their own narratives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Slavery and Childhood
- This lesson is designed to extend student understanding of the experiences of slaves living in the American, antebellum south. The chosen samples and excerpts from the Documenting the American South collection reflect the childhood of two enslaved people born in America, Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglas, and two people born in Africa, Oloudah Equiano and Omar Bin Said. Two knew what it was like to be free before being captured and placed into servitude, and longed to be free again; two were born into slavery and like the two native born Africans had aspirations of freedom. Students are invited to compare their childhood memories with the lives of these children in an effort to make history more human.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- Getting hooked: Introduction for a narrative
- Students will be able to identify techniques for writing an introduction for a narrative and use them effectively.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Leann Kelley.
- Personal picture narratives: Jacob Lawrence
- In this second grade lesson students will look closely at paintings by Lawrence depicting historical figures. Students will identify Lawrence’s unique style from work by other artists based on the elements of color and shape. They will create a painting using the same art elements to create a picture depicting an imagined scene from the life of Harriet Tubman.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education)
- By Eileen Palamountain.
- Thematic and organizational patterns in McLaurin's "The Rite Time of Night"
- Students will learn to identify and color-code thematic and organizational patterns found in the narrative and then use two-column note-taking to highlight how these patterns helped McLaurin give his story focus and organization. As a suggested follow-up activity, students are given ideas for writing their own narratives, using similar techniques as McLaurin.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
