BHS ELA Instructional Guide

photographs, think about how this experience may have affected the individual people who lived through it.

Finally, you will write a narrative, showing how a particular small moment during this experience affected one person. ​ Here are your choices for your narrative: A. ​ A young child watching the “black blizzard” rolling in over the plains B. ​ A young child, watching a tractor knock down his family home in Oklahoma, several years into the Dust Bowl drought C. ​ A mother sitting on her front steps in a migrant camp in California D. ​ An unemployed father, arriving at a squatter camp in California from Oklahoma

●​ Full Prompt and Text Sets ●​ Annotated Student Samples ●​ Sample Narrative Rubric

●​ Student Narrative/Biography ( Mirrors and Windows p. 819) Scaffolding in Action Skill Building

●​ Prewriting Strategies (video) (slides) ●​ Chunking an Extended Essay (video) (slides) ●​ 5 Paragraph Outline ●​ MLA Format (Nearpod) ●​ Evaluate Student Samples ●​ Short Story Lesson Plan from Write the World

●​ Write the World (competitions and writing groups for teens) ●​ Publish in different format: video, podcast, website, infographic ●​ Submit to school’s newspaper or literary journal ●​ Turn it into an OpEd and submit to the newspaper ●​ Submit for publication: learn how to write a query letter, research publications for submissions, submit essay or narrative for publication Multilingual Learners will construct language arts narratives that ●​ Develop and describe characters and their relationships over a progression of experiences or events ○​ Action verbs to describe character behaviors (Joe leaps into action, grabs his phone and dives for the door, yelling for Julie to follow him.) ○​ Complex sentences to establish context and characters (He stayed with the job because the merchant, although he was an old grouch, treated him fairly.) ●​ Develop story, advancing the plot and themes with complications and resolutions, time and event sequences ○​ A variety of verb tenses to pace the narrative and locate events in time, including dialog (The wind told me you would be coming and that you would need help.) ○​ Dependent clauses to add details (Village children scampered out the door, which left the room strangely

Extension (Make it Real)

Language Expectations for Multilingual Learners

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