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exploring the personal Narrative
LearNING sTraTeGIes:
Activating Prior Knowledge, Graphic Organizer, Note-taking, Metacognitive Markers
Introducing the Strategy: Metacognitive Markers
Metacognition refers to the thinking you do about your own learning. Using metacognitive markers involves marking the text with symbols to reflect the thinking you are doing as you read. After reading, you can scan the text and use your metacognitive markers to quickly find evidence when you are talking or writing about a text. Here are the markers:
? Use a question mark for questions you have about the text.
! Use an exclamation point for a reaction to what you are reading. * Use an asterisk for a comment about the text.
_ Use an underline to identify a key idea or detail in the text.
Literary Terms
A narrative tells a story or describes a sequence of events in an incident.
AbouT The AuThor
Marta Salinas was born in Coalinga, California, in 1949. She studied creative writing at the University of California at Irvine and has published several short stories. Her best-known story, “The Scholarship Jacket,” has appeared in many anthologies and textbooks.
personal Narrative
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Learning Targets
• Analyze the structural components of a personal narrative.
• Writeasummaryexaminingthecentralincident,response,andreflectionina personal narrative.
Preview
A personal narrative tells a story about something that happened in the writer’s life. In this activity, you will read a personal narrative, analyze its structure and key ideas, and then write your own summary of the story.
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• As you read “The Scholarship Jacket,” use metacognitive markers to interact with the text.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
by Marta Salinas
1 The small Texas school that I went to had a tradition carried out every year
during the eighth-grade graduation: a beautiful gold and green jacket (the school colors) was awarded to the class valedictorian, the student who had maintained the
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