ENG2D Unit 1: Voice and Story

How do writers make us care about a character in only a few pages? Students read four public-domain classics (“The Monkey's Paw,” “The Story of an Hour,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Necklace”), then write a personal narrative.

Assessment of learning: a personal narrative (Writing) and a short story analysis paragraph (Reading), with rubrics.

Lessons

1. Six Words
2. The Heist Map
3. The Monkey's Paw
4. The Story of an Hour
5. The Tell-Tale Heart
6. The Necklace
7. Voice Remix
8. The Analysis Paragraph (2 classes)
9. Finding Your Story
10. Show, Don't Tell
11. Drafting Studio (2 classes)
12. Revise, Edit, Publish
13. Author's Chair

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 19 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and both summative tasks with rubrics. The stories themselves are public domain and not included; each plan says where to find a free copy

Built for the Ontario curriculum (English, Grades 9 and 10, 2007, revised), and easy to adapt for any Grade 10 English class.

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