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Literacy & Language Arts

Grade 9, Quarter 1: Personal Narrative

Overview
Reading a variety of fiction and non-fiction narrative writing, students will be able to infer by making connections within a text, make predictions and draw conclusions from text, determine meanings from context clues, identify plot points, author’s point of view, flashback, foreshadowing, and tone.  Narrative texts -- fictional narratives, personal narratives, memoir, and autobiography -- serve as windows into the people's lives.  While effective narratives often use a rather straightforward chronological structure, great authors work within that structure to reveal the meaningful events and episodes in their lives and then reflect on the significance of those events that shape a life.  By the end of the 1st Quarter, students will plan, draft, revise, and edit a personal narrative, sequenced and multi-paragraphed, that makes use of vivid, precise language and correct conventions. Students will write their personal narratives to develop their own voice as a writer and to reflect on significant events of their own lives.                                                      

 
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Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

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Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

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  Highest Frequency Standards
1c. Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in fiction and poetry
4a. Determine author's purpose
4d. Make predictions and draw conclusions from text in various genre
5a. Use organizational features of text
5c. Summarize and organize info about a topic in a variety of ways (graphic organizers, etc.) from various sources

High Frequency Standards
1d. Infer using a variety of texts and genre
4b. Use reading to solve a variety of problems and answer questions

Other Standards & E-skills
1b. Summarize and synthesize fiction and poetry
1e. Identify sequential order in fiction and poetry

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