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Unit 4: Stories for the Future: Preserving Memory and Culture
50 min
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
Student Lesson
Unit 4: Stories for the Future: Preserving Memory and Culture
Student Learning Objectives
1
Content
Students will practice writing a conclusion that follows from and reflects on narrated experiences or events in their narrative scene.
2
Language
Students will use precise adjectives, adverbial phrases, and adverbial clauses to describe a concrete setting and reflect on the meaning of a narrative ending.
Essential Question
How do stories help communities survive change and imagine a future worth building?
Connections to
Knowledge-Building:
Students continue developing their knowledge of narrative writing craft by analyzing how authors like Higuera and Du Bois conclude their narratives.
Enduring Understanding:
Stories shape how humans remember the past and imagine the future.
Future Lessons:
In Lessons 38 and 39, students will begin their Unit Performance Task.
Future Lessons:
Performance Task: Students learn how to write a conclusion to their narrative so they can apply this same skill to their own narrative writing during the Performance Task.
Lesson Pacing
| Lesson Flow | Purpose of Learning Experience |
|---|---|
Launch5 Minutes | Students will reflect on which texts in the unit most shaped their thinking about the future. |
Literacy Lab10 Minutes | Students will study how Du Bois and Higuera conclude their respective stories. |
Learning in Action30 Minutes | Part A: Writing the Conclusion (W.8.3.e, W.8.4) Learning in Action B: Feedback for a Strong Finish (W.8.3.e, W.8.5) Students will give and receive peer feedback on how effectively their narratives conclude. Students will draft a conclusion that follows from their narrative scene and reflects on what the events mean. Learning in Action B: Feedback for a Strong Finish (W.8.3.e, W.8.5) Students will give and receive peer feedback on how effectively their narratives conclude. |
Material List
- Unit 4 Lesson 35 Student Edition
- Student copies of the Unit 4 Performance Task Rubric
Routines
- Think-Pair-Share
- Modeled Writing
- Turn-and-Talk
Lesson Sequence
Lesson Texts
Short-Form Text
The Comet
W.E.B. Du Bois
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