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Assignment 1: Project Topic and Goal Identification ** Overview of the general topic area
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Personal and expressive writing is an integral part of Kentucky’s core content. Personal narratives are a specific form of personal and expressive writing that allows students in their formative teenage years an outlet for their expression. Composing a personal narrative allows students to not only express themselves, but also learn to write effectively and in a specific writing style. Statement of the instructional goal for the student

Students will clearly and effectively express themselves through writing in which they share a personal experience surrounding a significant event in their lives. Reflecting on the event and their feelings associated with it, students will write from a first-person point of view, use appropriate story structure, utilize description and detail, use figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and hyperbole to convey experiences.

A brief rationale for why you selected this topic area

As our group is comprised of all English MIC students, a goal centered on our subject matter only made sense. We all have a passion for high school English students and wanted to choose an area in the English field, in which we were all familiar. We chose the personal narrative writing style to address a target population that has an expressed need. We feel personal narratives are crucial to the development of student writers and help create confidence in writing and a personal style. As future English teachers, we will eventually teach lessons on writing the personal narrative.

A brief description of your target population

 The target population is 9th grade English students, of various writing ability and experience, who have had some introduction to reflective narrative writings (i.e. corresponding novels/stories from previous units; __ Night __, __ Tears of a Tiger __ or __ Monster __ ). Although the class has average to above-average written skills such as: correct and varied sentence structure, acceptable punctuation and grammar usage, they are insecure and uncomfortable in their ability to express themselves. The personal narrative will allow these inexperienced writers, to write about experiences that are personal to them, in which they know details and information.

Some thoughts concerning the given guidelines for writing instructional goal. I sent this out as an email too. Hope it helps some. Thanks Alison for collecting everyone's data/notes/thoughts to send to Anglin!

Instructional Goal-Write a Personal Narrative

1. Intended learning outcome: Students learn to express themselves in writing about what is important to them (feelings, memories, people etc.).

2. Verb that covers a domain of student performance: "Express"-this covers what students must do when writing a Personal Narrative.

3. One general learning outcome: Learning not only to write effectively (good grammar, syntax, organization) but in a specific writing style: Personal Narrative (1st person, one true moment in person's history. etc.).

4.There will be no need to state subject matter or content in the goal because the students will come up with that!

5. Specific, representative, learning outcomes (maybe stated to clarify in more detail what the general goal is): -Learn to write about abstract topics, like emotions, senses, etc. -Learn to write from a limited point of view (1st person). -Learn to tell a story using description/detail/creative diction. -Learn to write creatively using metaphor, simile, symbols, motifs, etc. -Learn to write about self; familiar, comfortable topics (rather than foreign research paper topics).

TARGET POPULATION: High School English students who are insecure, uncomfortable at writing/dislike it, and could care less about expressing themselves through words. Although, we hope they find it cathartic!! :)

WHY WE SELECTED TOPIC AREA: We are all English MIC students who must eventually teach lessons on writing the Personal Narrative.
 * -- LARA**



//**Goal-**// Designed instruction will focus students on; writing a collection of sentences and paragraphs based on a personal experience or event, that will comprise a personal narrative rough draft.

//**Clarification-**// Through written composition students will: Compose a collection of related sentences and paragraphs, based on their own personal experience surrounding a significant event in their lives. AND Organize their thoughts in a logical fashion, through written expression, to reflect on the event and their feelings associated with it.

//**Learning Outcomes-**// Students will: Learn to express thoughts, emotions and feeling through writing. AND Learn to use 1st person point of view to tell a story. AND Learn to use proper grammar, sentence structure and punctuation.

//**Target Population-**// 9th grade-level English students, of various writing ability and experience, who have had some introduction to reflective narrative writings (i.e. corresponding novels/stories from previous units; __Night__, __Tears of a Tiger__ or __Monster__). Students will have average to above-average written expression skills such as; correct and varied sentence structure, acceptable punctuation and grammar usage, etc.

//**Rationale-**// Students transitioning from middle to high school have a need to work on written expression, as they may not be well disciplined in their writing and must develop that skill to succeed through high school and beyond. In addition, students in their formative teenage years, should be provided a means and an outlet for their experiences and emotions. Construction of a personal narrative is a way to meet these needs, while still providing the opportunity to learn important writing skills. As our group is comprised of all English MIC students, a goal centered on our subject matter only made sense, but it is equally important to address a target population that has an express need, through a task that can serve them in many ways.


 * -- JOE

1. Overview of the General Topic Area: Effective and exciting ** communication through personal experience in the form of a Personal Narrative

2. **Statement of the Instruc****tional Goal**: Students will clearly and effectively communicate a personal experience in which they learned a valuable lesson through careful consideration of their audience and by following story structure.


 * 3. Brief Rationale for Selecting Topic: Story structure is the basic formula that is essential in most forms of writing whether it be a speech, play, narrative, or other fictional piece. By introducing the students to story structure, they will be more perceptive to structure in other written works and possess the skills to write in other aspects of life and future courses (i.e. portfolio pieces). Students will also determine their audience before they write their narrative. They will learn the importance of tone and the techniques to attract a particular audience to their works.

4 . Target Population: Incoming high school students will need to start at the very beginning of storytelling, learning about structure and story arcs. This will ensure that all students are on the same page and given the same skills to analyze other pieces of literature and to write their own portfolio pieces based on the same format. This instruction will form the basis for all other writing they will create for the rest of their high school careers.

**5. Learning Outcomes**: Students will -learn story structure and identify it in their own works as well the works of others -discuss the importance of audience and what it means for different pieces of literature -compose a personal narrative based on their own experiences in which they learned a valuable lesson by following the guidelines of story structure and audience**

--AMANDA

OVERVIEW: Students should utilize personal narratives to express the significance of their personal experience with readers. Personal and expressive writing is an integral part of the core content of learning and will help students understand point of view and story structure, while developing writing skills.

GOAL: Students will express themselves through personal writing in which they share memories of their past in an organized and well-written piece, with correct grammar usage, appropriate use of sentence variety, appropriate use of vocabulary and appropriate use of figures of speech, including similes, metaphors and/or hyperboles.

RATIONALE: Joe, Lara, Amanda and I are all in the MIC program at UK, specifically in Secondary English Education. We all have a passion for high school English students and wanted to choose an area in the English field, in which we were all familiar. We chose the personal narrative writing style, because we feel personal narratives are crucial to the development of student writers and help create confidence in writing and a personal style.

TARGET POPULATION: The target population is a 9th-grade English class, varying in skill level, but with basic writing abilities (basic grammar and sentence structure). This class is not confident in their writing skills and has not developed personal voice. They lack the ability to connect themes with a central focus and then back up the theme and focus with main points and details. The personal narrative will allow these inexperienced writers, lacking in confidence, to write about experiences that are personal to them, in which they know a lot of detail and information, and then apply figures of speech, creativity and a first-person writing style.

--ALI