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English · Grade 9

Personal and Imaginative Writing

Learners write true and imagined stories with craft. They practice showing rather than telling through precise words and telling details, use dialogue and pacing to reveal character, shape a personal essay from an engaging opening to a reflective ending, and revise a draft for voice and purpose. Model passages are original, and learners write a scene and a reflective narrative of their own.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 130 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

  • Use dialogue, pacing, description and reflection to develop experiences, events and characters.
  • Show rather than tell by choosing precise words, telling details and sensory language.
  • Structure a narrative or personal essay with an engaging opening, a purposeful sequence and a reflective ending.
  • Revise a narrative draft for voice, purpose and audience using add, remove, move and substitute moves.

Lessons

  1. Show, don't just tell 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  2. Dialogue and pacing 7 steps3 practiceabout 32 min
  3. Shape and reflection 6 steps3 practiceabout 32 min
  4. Revise for voice and purpose 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  5. Narrative craft check 10 questions at the end

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