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**Real World Writing ** By: Samantha Snow Document Ty Lesso **Subject ** Language Arts **Topic ** Writing about past memories **Grade Level ** 8th grade 40 minutes Focus/Attention Motivation: 5 minutes Instructional Input & Modeling: 10 minutes Student Engagement & Practice: 20 minutes Closure: 5 minutes The overall goal of this lesson is to take in account how much a writers personal experiences has an effect in his or her written work. focus, organization, elaboration and coherence. || instructions, news articles, correspondence) for a specified audience. || **Instructional Objectives ** Given that the student has had previous experiences, they will be able to recall them to come up with a list of main events in their life. Given that the student has now read The Lost Garden, they will be able to come up with many strategies of how to recall past events. Dry erase board/marker Journals Pen/paper Textbook: The Lost Garden (excerpt) By Laurence Yep
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">IL.2.B.3a || <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">> Respond to literary material from personal, creative and critical points of view. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">IL.3.B.3a || <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">> Produce documents that convey a clear understanding and interpretation of ideas and information and display
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">IL.3.C.3a || <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">> Compose narrative, informative, and persuasive writings (e.g., in addition to previous writings, literature reviews,
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**<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Procedures ** <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif';">Focus Attention/Motivation: When the students come in they will complete the bell ringer on the board in their journals. They will have to list the main events that they would include in their own life story with a short description of each.

Instructional Input & Modeling: Then as a class together we will read from the textbook the short excerpt from the memoir of Laurence Yep's, The Lost Garden. I will then discuss with the students how the author used many techniques to recall his memories. Ask the students to list some strategies they use when trying to recall memories, list them on the board.

Student Engagement/Practice: Have the students choose one of their main events they listed in their journal and write about it. Have them use very vivid descriptions of how they remembered something occurring, so the reader can feel as if they are actually there. Have a few volunteers share their short stories about one of their memories with the class.

Closure: Ask the students what benefactors came from taking the time to recall a past memory and do a personal writing on it. <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif';">Collect the student’s short stories of their life memories, and look for how many vivid descriptions they used. || **<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Acceptable (2 pts) ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Unacceptable (1 pt) **  || (1, 100%) ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wrote a good short story using five or more vivid descriptions. || <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wrote an alright short story using three to four vivid descriptions. || <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wrote a short story using two or less vivid descriptions. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">No resources added. <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif';">Gifted students can try and write some memories that historical figures might have had. ELL students can write their memories down in their native language. Struggling students can use bullet points to write their short stories.
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Use of vivid descriptions
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