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English · Grade 10

Narrative Craft and Revision

Learners write narratives with deliberate craft. Starting from the first sentence of Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat,” they choose point of view and timeline on purpose, build experience from telling details and sensory language, write dialogue that reveals character with correct punctuation for interruptions, pauses and quotations within quotations, and revise a draft in response to peer feedback using a revision plan and memo.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 135 minutes
  • Narrative craft check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, put in order, sort into groups and arrange tiles
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What learners will discover

  • Make deliberate choices of point of view, tense and timeline (chronological, flashback, braided) to shape a narrative's effect.
  • Use precise telling details and sensory language to convey experience, character and mood.
  • Write dialogue that reveals character and punctuate it correctly, including split lines, interruptions, pauses and quotations within quotations.
  • Revise a narrative in response to feedback using a prioritized revision plan, and explain the choices in a revision memo.

Lessons

  1. Choose point of view and timeline on purpose 6 steps3 practiceabout 33 min
  2. Telling details and sensory language 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  3. Dialogue: purpose and punctuation 6 steps4 practiceabout 34 min
  4. Revise from feedback 6 steps3 practiceabout 38 min
  5. Narrative craft check 10 questions at the end

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