Lesson 5: Personal Narrative - Deptula Body Paragraphs
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
Students will structure their paragraphs to logically progress the story's sequence, using transition words to connect timelines smoothly.
What sensory details were present during this experience?
What obstacles stood in your way?
How did this experience reveal something new about yourself or life?
Plot
Setting
Figurative language
Conflict
Character
Point of view
Theme
Climax
Resolution
Dialogue
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3.b
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3.c
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3.d
DOK Level 3
Sentence starters
Visual aides
Vocabulary support
Students will write 3, 5-7 sentence paragraphs outlining their personal experience and how that experience shifted them as an individual.
See NoRedInk for narrative writing resources.