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6th ELA
1st Nine Weeks
Reading and Writing Workshop
Creative Writing
Short Stories and Personal Narratives
Nonfiction and Expository
By constructing
Personal Narrative
TEKS 14A-C,16A
Literary Elements in Fiction
By explaining
Reading and writing about peoples’ personal experiences
The setting
TEKS 3C
Vocabulary for Short Story Prep
By defining
Read & Discussion of selected short story
By clarifying
Vocabulary
TEKS 2A,B,E
Point of View
TEKS 6C
By following
By analyzing
By identifying
Common Assessment
The Writing Process
The characters
TEKS 6B
The theme
TEKS 3A
The plot
TEKS 6A
Quick Writes
Writing Process for completing Personal Narratives
What makes a good short story?
How does understanding a character’s experience within a short story help us to create our own personal narrative?
How do you develop a plot for your personal narrative?
How do I identify POV?
What pronouns do we use with POV?
How do authors use voice & dialect to develop characters?
How will you use POV in narrative structure?
Cause & Effect
Problem/Solution
Text Connections

2. Short Stories & Personal Narratives
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Short Stories & Personal Narratives
Setting
Personal Narrative
nonfiction text that has facts where you can read and learn new information.
Characterization
Plot
A copy from someone’s personal point of view
Place/Time that the story takes place
Point of View
Theme
The Writing Process
1 Prewriting Brainstorming
2 Draft
3 Revising
4 Proofreading/Editing
5 Publishing
A process that goes through a series of steps to help you organize your writing to ensure that it is well thought out and pleasing to both you and the reader.
Sequence of events in Story
Social Conditions
Things that affect the character
Culture/Behavior/Mannerisms
Introduction/ Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Mood/Atmosphere
How the story feels?
How the characters feel?
Writing Prompt
Hard work can be very rewarding.
Write a personal narrative about a time when you accomplished something important through hard work. Be sure to describe what you accomplished, and how your hard work paid off.
Falling Action
Conclusion/Resolution