Instructional Objective

Students will demonstrate mastery of narrative writing techniques (Taken from GA Standard W3: Narrative writing).

• On the mid-unit quiz, students will be able to identify:

  • ​action verbs - 80% success (4 out of 5 sentences correct)

  • Participial phrases- 80% success (4 out of 5 sentences correct)

  • Nominative Absolute phrases- 80% success (4 out of 5 sentences correct)

  • Prepositional phrases- 80% success (4 out of 5 sentences correct)

  • Appositive phrases- 80% success (4 out of 5 sentences correct)

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By the end of the unit, students will be able to write a 500 word narrative that contains:

1.  Vivid descriptions of setting AND character(s), containing

   • Predominance of action verbs instead of linking verbs​​

   • Detail phrases, such as participial, nominative absolute, prepositional, and appositive, to add detail to their descriptions

2. Action that moves the story​

   • The action does NOT have to be intense, as in an action movie​

   • It is used to connect, to move characters from scene to scene within a story

   • It is often mixed in with descriptive writing.

3. Dialogue​

   • The dialogue should utilize proper punctuation and indentation.​

   • A variety of dialogue tags should be used to avoid repetition.

   • The dialogue should show/build personality, be unique to each character, and be "natural," not stilted or generic.

The students' finished stories should demonstrate growth in this genre of writing, based on a comparison to a narrative they wrote at the start of the school year.

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