English Language Arts Grade 11-12
Educational Links

Writing Standard 3

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

• Eleventh Grade Range of Writing Narrative Writing Samples
  These pieces provide examples of narrative writing for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences, over both extended and shorter time frames.
• NaNoWriMo Youth Writing Project
  November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). This site is dedicated to encouraging young writers to sit down and write the book they have always wanted to write. Writing contests and educator resources to help teachers motivate their students to write.
• Perspective on the Slave Narrative
  This lesson plan introduces students to one of the most widely-read genres of 19th-century American literature and an important influence within the African American literary tradition even today. The lesson focuses on the Narrative of William W. Brown, An American Slave (1847), which, along with the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), set the pattern for this genre and its combination of varied literary traditions and devices. To help students recognize the complex nature of the slave narrative, the lesson explores Brown's work from a variety of perspectives.
• Twelfth Grade On-Demand Narrative Writing Samples
  Sample narrative pieces written by eighth graders in response to a uniform text-based prompt.

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