UCI 134 Group 10

Name of Class: "Introduction to ESL Story Writing"

Level of Class: Beginner

Grade: 6th Grade

Total Number of Days: 10

Topic of Unit: Story Writing

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Overall Goal: 

Deriving from the fundamental concepts of education, linguistics, communication, and psychology, this course will cover the fundamental 5 W's (who, what, where, when, why), characterization, the Beginning/Middle/End of a story, composing, and publishing deriving from the topic of story writing.

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Learning Objectives:

• Students will name and describe the fundamental 5 W's (who, what, where, when, why) of a story. 
• Student will be able to describe a character and its development through written text.
• Students will discover how to express a story in clearer context, utilizing the concept of setting to add background information to a story.
• Students will be able to recognize the structure of a plot, namely the beginning, middle, and end, when presented with a story.
• Students will be able to construct their own plot structure (beginning, middle, end). 
• Students will be able to conceptualize and compose their own short story.
• Students will acquire the skill to publish their own story book (with the plot and pictures). 

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Materials and Resources:

Day 1: "The Christmas Play" by Kate, paper, markers

Day 2: "Identifying Character" worksheet, "The Christmas Play" by Kate, paper, pencil

Day 3: "The Christmas Play" by Kate, Video Resource (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLzfXQSPBOg, notecards, pencil

Day 4: Video Resource (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLzfXQSPBOg), "Beginning Activity" cards ("character": ​(ex.) Sam, Lauren, Tom, Megan, the dog, the family, a dragon; "setting": ​(ex.) the park, at night, Disneyland, at 3:00pm, a castle; "opener": ​(ex.) Once upon a time, Today, Last night, One time, A long time ago; "wild card": ​(ex.) colors, emotions, adjectives, extra details), paper, pencil

Day 5: Video Resource (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLzfXQSPBOg), Video resource(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzPioph8CI)

Day 6: Video Resource (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLzfXQSPBOg), Video resource (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzPioph8CI), handouts that have short stories.

Day 7: Video resource (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkLjt4R8j8), one worksheet, one chart, a series of three pictures of different scenes, paper, pencil.

Day 8: Outlines/charts from previous days, paper, pencil.

Day 9: Construction paper, colored pencils, crayons, markers, safety scissors, glue

Day 10: None

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Assessment: 

Short Story Presentation (Day 10)