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interacting in Meaningful Ways: Writing a Personal narrative
Learning Targets
• Express and justify opinions about a personal narrative in conversation and writing by providing text evidence or relevant background knowledge.
• Write the incident and response of a personal narrative.
• Use figurative language effectively to create precision and shades of meaning
while writing.
Review your annotations and notes on “The Jacket” and use them to complete the graphic organizer.
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Incident
Response
Reflection
What is the central action that is the focus of the story?
What emotions and actions resulted from the incident?
What was the significance of the incident? How did the narrator learn or grow from it?
Quick Conversation
Share your work with your partner. Compare your ideas about the incident, response, and reflection. Next, read aloud the last sentence of the story:
I started up the alley and soon slipped into my jacket, that green ugly brother who breathed over my shoulder that day and ever since.
Discuss the sentence. What does it tell you about the narrator and why the incident of “The Jacket” was important to him? Record notes from your discussion.
I agree/disagree because .
I think the incident was important to the narrator because .
Based on , I think .
Will you please explain that?
Unit 1 • Stories of Change • Part 1: The Jacket 13
Language
resources
personal narrative: a story based on one’s own life and told in the first-person point of view; describes an incident, and includes a response and a reflection on the incident incident: the central piece of action that is the focus of the narrative
response: the immediate emotions and actions associated with the incident in a story
reflection: a description that explores the significance of the incident in a story
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