Writing a Narrative About Compassion
Grade
Grade 6
UNIT
6
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Compassion
In Unit 6, Lesson 3, “Writing a Narrative About Compassion,” students will write a narrative that portrays the compassion of a character. Students will choose to write a narrative that imaginatively engages with one of the two readings covered earlier in this unit: the novel Wonder by R. J. Palacio or the article about Anandabai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
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SUGGESTED TIME:
60-minutes of either in-class writing or a homework assignment
RELATED SUBJECT:
English Language Arts
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
- Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters
- Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
- Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
- Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
- Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
- Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Prohuman Grade 6 Unit 6 Worksheet 3: Writing a Narrative About Compassion
ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS MET
CHARACTER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (CSED) NATIONAL STANDARDS MET
LESSON PROCEDURE
- Have students choose one of the following prompts to write a narrative that focuses specifically on compassion:
- What would you do to show compassion if Auggie, the main character from the novel Wonder by R. J. Palacio, sat down next to you at the lunch table?
- Imagine it is Anandabai Joshee’s first day in the United States. Invent one character she meets who is compassionate towards her and show how.
- Tell students that these narratives will be shared with 3 classmates for peer review.
GRADE 6 UNIT 6 WORKSHEET 3: WRITING A NARRATIVE ABOUT COMPASSION
Choose one of the following prompts to write a narrative that focuses on compassion:
- What would you do to show compassion if Auggie, the main character from the novel Wonder by R. J. Palacio, sat down next to you at the lunch table?
- Imagine it is Anandabai Joshee’s first day in the United States. Invent one character she meets who is compassionate towards her and show how.
Your narrative will be shared with 3 classmates for peer review.
Your narrative should:
- Be at least 3 pages.
- Develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
- Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters.
- Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
- Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
- Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
- Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
- Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
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