I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Change

Essential Question:

How can understanding life behaviors be important to the study of narrative writing?

Bridge:

Cause and Effect

Content:

Narrative Writing

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To introduce concept of change.

Activity: 1) Listen to excerpts from various parts of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." 2) Students should record images and impressions from various parts/seasons of music.

Assessment: Involvement.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To compare impressions with rest of class.

Activity: A scribe should list on board all impressions of each season. Ask class to determine changes/differences in musical seasons.

Assessment: Involvement.

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To connect changes to causes.

Activity: 1) Read aloud Dick Gregory's "Not Poor, Just Broke." 2) Discuss the changes which Gregory attributes to this incident. 3) Students prepare list of important changes in own lives.

Assessment: Student responses.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: 1) To examine change as a part of life. 2) To study Pygmalion as an example of change. 3) To learn skills of narrative writing.

Activity: 1) Guest speaker--psychologist speaking on role/effect of change in our lives. 2) Read Pygmalion. 3) Study 'Writing with a Narrative Focus" (attached).

Assessment: Involvement, notetaking

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To practice and increase understanding of concept of change, the play Pygmalion, and the skills of narrative writing.

Activity: 1) Vocabulary. 2) Reading quizzes. 3) Time line or character map for Liza Doolittle.

Assessment: Grades on quizzes, accuracy of map.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To apply concept of change to own life.

Activity: 1) Write a personal narrative in which you focus on an event or moment which precipitated change in your life. 2) Accompany your narrative by one of the following: a) photo essay, b) illustrative or symbolic artwork, c) personal timeline, d) interview with a witness to your event--how it appeared to them.

Assessment: 1) Effective narration. 2) Communication of change in accompanying work.

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To evaluate narrative.

Activity: With peer evaluator using class-established criteria, discuss your narrative/consider discussion in making revisions.

Assessment: Application of discussion in revision.

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To celebrate and demonstrate learning.

Activity: Publish class anthology on change using students narratives and accompanying materials.

Assessment: Effectiveness of communication concerning cause and effects of change.

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: