Revising the Narrative Essay
Revising the Narrative Essay
Objectives
Students will learn to effectively revise a personal narrative essay. Students will:
- give and receive constructive feedback in preparation for writing a final draft of the narrative essay.
- revise drafts for
- development of characters, setting, problem, resolution, and theme.
- precise language.
- showing instead of telling.
- effective opening and conclusion.
- organization.
- conventions.
Essential Questions
What is the purpose?
What makes clear and effective writing?
What will work best for the audience?
Who is the audience?
Why do writers write?
- Why do writers write? What is the purpose?
- What makes clear and effective writing?
- Who is the audience? What will work best for the audience?
- How do grammar and the conventions of language influence spoken and written communication?
Vocabulary
- Conventions of Language: Mechanics, usage, and sentence completeness.
- Focus: The center of interest or attention.
- Imagery: Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work.
- Literary Devices: Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the writing (e.g., dialogue, alliteration).
- Literary Elements: The essential techniques used in literature (e.g., characterization, setting, plot, theme).
- Narrative: A story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in writing.
- Point of View: The way in which an author reveals characters, events, and ideas in telling a story; the vantage point from which the story is told.
- Style: How an author writes; an author’s use of language; its effects and appropriateness to the author’s intent and theme.
- Theme: A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work.
- Tone: The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters.
- Voice: The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in writing that make it unique to the writer.
Duration
90–120 minutes/2 class periods
Prerequisite Skills
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Materials
- copies of the Narrative Essay Revising and Editing Guidelines (LW-7-3-3_Revising and Editing Guidelines.docx) for each student
- set of colored highlighters or markers for each student
- copies of each student’s essay, one for each student in the peer group
- copies of the PSSA Grades 6–8 Narrative Scoring Guidelines (LW-7-3-3_PSSA Grades 6–8 Narrative Scoring Guidelines.docx) for each student
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- “Peer Edit with Perfection: Effective Strategies.” https://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/peer-edit-with-perfection-786.html?tab=1#tabs
- “Revising Drafts.” http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/revision.html
Formative Assessment
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Final 07/12/2013