Curriculum Unit
Kristen Bain
How to Steal from Famous Authors for Fun and Profit
Title Author
KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of narrative structure and author’s choices.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT
How do authors make choices regarding how to structure and develop narrative texts?
CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C
Author’s Choices
Developing Characters
Constructing Setting
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C
How do authors make decisions about how to organize the events of a story in order to create meaning?
How do authors use vivid language and imagery to create complex characters?
How do authors use descriptive language and sentence structure to establish setting?
VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY A
Plot
Sequence of events
Foreshadowing/Flashback
Imagery
Diction
Connotation/Denotation
Indirect/Direct Characterization
Narration
Dialogue
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES
Teachers are encouraged to use a wide range of genres and styles of narrative texts as models. Model texts should be rich in stylistic choices to ensure that students clearly know which narrative element they should emulate.
Text Suggestions: John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, and John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces