2023 META24 Course Catalog-7

GP 1 Narrative Writing
MIDDLE SCHOOL WRITING: LEVEL 1
Skills 1: Students will be able to explain what narrative writing is, what elements make up a plot, how to
use 1st person point of view, and how to determine the theme of a narrative.
Skills 2: Students will be able to explain how transitional words, phrases, and clauses help to shape
narrative writing and how to use conjunctions for sentence variety. They will be able to use correct
capitalization and punctuation in your narrative. They will be able to correctly identify and use
FANBOYS as coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions (while, although, despite).
Skills 3: Students will be able to explain how diction, sensory details, and vivid description help to
shape narrative writing and how to correctly add a conclusion to a narrative story. They will write a
narrative story. They will be able to correctly identify and use pronouns (personal, pronoun antecedent).
MATERIALS
• Write narratives to develop real or imagined
experiences or events using effective technique,
descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
• Orient the reader by establishing a situation and
introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize
an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
• Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue,
description, and pacing, to develop experiences
and events or show the responses of characters
to situations.
• Noun Types: Common, Proper, concrete, abstract
• Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and
clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from
one time frame or setting to another.
• FANBOYS, clauses and phrases
• Use concrete words and phrases and sensory
details to convey experiences and events precisely.
• Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated
experiences or events.
• Pronouns & antecedents
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