Overview
This prompt asks students to relate a given text to a small moment from their own lives.
Follow these steps to customize this narrative/personal task:
- Review the steps in the handout "Plan for Write to the Source."
- Review the sample task and then fill in the task template fields below the sample task.
- Review the handout "Narrative Writing Rubric." Adapt as necessary.
Sample Task
Essential Question: Why do some people stand up to prejudice and unfairness while others do not?
Text Title(s): Read "Freedom Riders."
Suggested Writing Product: Consider a small moment in your own life that you feel connects to the text. Work with a partner to compose a timeline stretching out the moment. Use the timeline to help you write your own personal narrative expressing your small moment. Write your narrative in first person.
Additional Task Demand: Use details and descriptions to show how characters respond to certain situations.