Overview
The culminating project of the unit will be an opportunity for students to craft their own personal narrative that represents some part of their identity that they would want others to see. At this point, students will have had examples of positive and negative, accurate and inaccurate, helpful and harmful narratives. They can use these examples to help guide their writing or creating.
After students have drafted, edited, and revised their pieces, it would be a wonderful opportunity to present their work to the school community. This would allow students to feel a sense of pride in their accomplishments and disrupt the idea that these students are at a deficit. One idea would be to use one of the student writing publishing companies, like Student Treasures, to create an anthology of the writing into books available for purchase. Another idea could be to have a night where students read aloud or showcase their work to classmates, family and community members.
Procedure
Students will work independently on creating their drafts with help from graphic organizers, technology aides, and teacher feedback. Once students have a draft they will share with their peers for feedback and suggestions. They will edit and revise based on that feedback and be able to provide meaningful feedback to others. This will help students to get some different ideas of writing styles that they might want to try or content that they might want to discuss in their narratives. As students work through the editing and revising process, they should be given feedback by the teacher on their English writing skills and vocabulary to ensure they are building their language skills. For students who are not yet able to write in English, they can work on an alternate way to present their personal narratives, as explained in the content and language objectives below.
Content and Language Objectives:
Beginning
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Intermediate
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Advanced
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Students will be able to create a personal narrative about their identity as being ML, immigrants and/or refugees by either creating artwork or writing in their home language.
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Students will be able to write a short personal narrative about their identity as being ML, immigrants and/or refugees by using sentence starters, fillable graphic organizers, and other differentiation tools.
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Students will be able to write a personal narrative about their identity as being ML, immigrants and/or refugees.
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