S1+Cooper,+Susanna

=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= B2. Narrative Grades 6-8 Students write narratives that convey complex ideas, observations, events, or reflections. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts: B. Writing

//What understandings are desired?//
•different narrative strategies effectively convey the message or main points. •figurative language helps clarify and enhance the ideas and emotions. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •each narrative has a plot that conveys complex ideas.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•Why do narrative strategies convey the mesage or main points? •How do I (the writer) encorporate figurative language into my narrative essay? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How is the plot of a story developed?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Sequences and timelines: Climax, exposition, conflict, falling action, resolution, • People and events: characters, antagonsit, protaginost, || •demonstrate different strategies for presenting the message. •make sense of the rise and fall of the plot and the major conflicts that took place. •produce thier own narrative stories by using some of the narrative strategies. •analyze the figurative language in a passage and determine how it was effective. •consider how the story structure is effective by using figurative language. •realize that the plot breaks down the major ideas and evnets of the narrative. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * • Terminology: metaphores, plot, conflict, personification, forshadow, similies, paradox, and symbolysim.


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**