Overview
This prompt asks students to write about an experience or event in their own lives that relates to a theme in the text.
Follow these steps to customize this personal narrative task:
- Review the steps in the handout "Plan for Write to the Source."
- Review the sample task template 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: How does society support or suppress our individual identities?
Text Title(s): Read this excerpt from Covering.
Suggested Writing Product: Address the question by writing a short memoir about an experience or event in your own life that relates to a theme in the text. Write your memoir in first person.
Additional Task Demand: Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, description and reflection to develop experiences, events or characters.