Narrative Unit
How many texts are included in this unit?
1 text
How many texts are included in this unit?
2 texts
How many texts are in this unit?
2 texts
In “Me First,” a boy gets tricked by a brilliant witch that teaches him about patience. Think about the details the author uses to create the characters, settings, and events.
Imagine that you, like the boy in the story, comes a across a brilliant witch. Write a story about what the witch makes you do and the lesson that you learn from the witch. Use what you have learned about the brilliant witch when writing your story.
Write a story pretending that you came across a witch. What does the witch make you do? What lesson do you learn from the witch?
What genre text is included in this unit?
1 fiction text
What is the genre of the texts in this unit?
2 nonfiction texts
What is the genre of these texts?
2 fiction texts
You have read a passage from “Gorillas in the Wild,” “911 in the Jungle,” and “Missing King Kong.” Think about the illustrations from the passages and how they help the reader learn more about the gorillas that live in the wild..
Write an essay explaining what can be learned from the illustrations about the lives of the gorillas described in the passages. Include details from all three sources in your explanation.
Write an essay that explain a photograph from each text. In a sentence or two explain what is in the photograph and what you learned about gorillas' lives from the photograph.
What are the parts that should be in a story?
Characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end
What type of writing are you asked to do for a research simulation unit?
Essay; Two stoplight paragraphs answering the writing task with each text
What type of writing are you asked to do for the literary analysis unit?
Essay; Two stoplight paragraphs answering the writing task with each text
Identify a theme in “Forever Homesick” and a theme in “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Write an essay that explains how the theme of the story is shown through the characters and how the theme of the poem is shown through the speaker. Include specific details from the story and the poem to support your essay.
Name a theme from each text. How is the theme shown through the characters? What did they say or do that shows that this is the theme? RESPOND IN TWO PARAGRAPHS
TRUE OR FALSE:
The written response in a narrative unit should be written in stoplight paragraph form.
False; A narrative is a story. Your written response should have a beginning, middle, and end with characters and a setting.
According to the text “she was convinced that the bumps were pressure sensors that detected small changes in pressure as ripples hit them. This shows why alligators have black bumps on their jaws”. According to text” finally, she dropped a single drop of water in the tank, the reptile snapped at the water drop. This shows how the Alligators use the pressure sensors to catch prey. All in all, the bumps are pressure sensors in the water this help the alligator catch prey in water.
What is missing from this paragraph?
In the story “just like home” the theme is sharing family traditions and memories can sometimes be comfortable sharing Rangoli with other classmate or friends. For example, “When Farah and Enrique first seen Priya making Rangoli Farah said that it reminded her about her uncle rug in Iran. Enrique said that reminded him of his grandma house in Mexico”. In conclusion the theme in this story is that sharing family traditions can be comfortable and fun because when Enrique and Farah showed Priya their traditions, they work together to make one big Rangoli.
The student did not explain their evidence, another sentence from the text would make it a stronger paragraph. The topic sentence could have been clear. Use a second sentence to further explain your answer.
You have read "Man in the Moon" and "Armstrong Vs. Space". Write an essay to explain how the author uses reasons and evidence to show that it was difficult for Americans to make it to the moon. Use details from both texts to support your answer.
Write an essay that tells what reasons and evidence the author used to show that it was difficult for Americans to make it to the moon. Write two stoplight paragraphs.