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=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?//
• writing is about connecting things to you in a personal way. • writing is about what you know, rather than what you don't know. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * • writing is not robotic. It is written with passion.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• Why do you make a personal connection? • Why do you write about things that you know? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • How do you develop a passion for writing?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
• Story Development: Plot, Setting, Characters, Dialogue, Suspense, Voice, Climax • Story Creation: Brainstorming, Venn Diagrams, Story webs and trees, Character Bios || • express emotion in their writing • represent themselves in their writing • create stories based on their own personal experiences • compare passionate writing with non-passionate writing • relate to other student's writing • students will be aware of their own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to writing. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * • Vocabulary: Metaphors, Imagery, Alliteration, Similes, Personification


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