In Module 1: Writing for a Purpose, students will learn how to tell their own stories and share their own opinions in writing and will explore narrative and opinion text structure in the writing of others. The lessons in this unit work together to reinforce fiction text structure knowledge through producing new text and analyzing existing text.

The students will pick a write a story about a personal event in which they learned a lesson. In their stories they will include the following components.

• Dialogue - Make sure the characters are speaking and use quotation marks.  

• Setting with descriptive details (adjectives)

• Actions of the characters (Show don't Tell)

• Introduction with a hook that grabs the reader's attention

• Varied Sentence Structure - Simple, Compound and Complex

• Logical Sequence - Make sure the story is written in the right order - Beginning, Middle and End. 

• Strong Conclusion - Theme - What does the author want the reader to learn from their story

Opinion - Reseearch