Personal Narrative Essay Brainstorming and Hook
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Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.) | Grade Level: 9
Lesson Length: 45 minutes
Keywords/Tags: Brainstorming/ mapping out writing
Lesson Description: Students will begin the start of their Personal Narrative Essay. This lesson will include you coming up with your brainstorming and completing it before class tomorrow. Then you will watch another video gaining more of an understanding of how to write an opening hook for your Personal Narrative Essay.

  • Other ELAGSE9-10RI1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
  • Other ELAGSE9-10L3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening, and to write and to edit so that it conforms to the guidelines in a style manual (e.g., MLA Handbook, APA Handbook, Turabian’s Manual for Writers) appropriate for the discipline and writing type.
  • Other ELAGSE9-10L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.rna. Use parallel structure.*rnb. Use various types of phrases (noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial, prepositional, absolute) and clauses (independent, dependent; noun, relative, adverbial) to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing or presentations.
  • Other ELAGSE9-10L2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.rna. Use a semicolon (and perhaps a conjunctive adverb) to link two or more closely related independent clauses.rnb. Use a colon to introduce a list or quotation.rnc. Spell correctly.rnd. Produces legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct use of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization.
  • Other ELAGSE9-10W8: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
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Video : Writing a Personal Narrative
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Description: This links holds three videos that students need to watch to be prepared for class tomorrow. Students will need to watch Brainstorming a story for kids, Planning & Pre-Writing a Story for Kids, Writing an Opening for Kids. In the first link is a folder that contains the rest of the videos on the side.
Resources : Free Graphic Organizer Templates
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.
Free Graphic Organizer Templates
Scroll down to the bottom and you will see the title Sequence of Events and it will have 5 different graphic organizers for you to use when brainstorming. Download it too your Chromebook and open it through Kami so we can write on the document. Please turn this in on Schoology once completed. It needs to be completed before class tomorrow.
Description: Scroll down to the bottom and you will see the title Sequence of Events and it will have 5 different graphic organizers for you to use when brainstorming. Download it too your Chromebook and open it through Kami so we can write on the document. Please turn this in on Schoology once completed. It needs to be completed before class tomorrow.
Video : Narrative Hook
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Description: Please watch the video to gain an understanding of the different ways to write a hook.
Assignment : Writing a Narrative Hook

Please watch the video Narrative Hook, once you have watched it please open a blank Google Doc and do the following. Please come up with 5 five different hooks to write for the beginning of your personal narrative essay. The hook(s) only need to be 2-4 sentences, we will use these in class. This assignment is due before class tomorrow, please tu it in on Schoology.