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Here are the teacher pack items for Reading Personal Narratives:
Overview In this experience, students read Samuel Clemens’s speech, “Mark Twain’s First Appearance,” and identify its qualities as a personal narrative and the role of humor in the speech. Next, they infer characteristics about Clemens based on the text. Finally, they analyze how the experience in the speech changed the author. Objectives Duration One class period. Vocabulary Words Used in the Personal Narrative
A personal narrative is a personal story written about a specific moment in an author’s life. As authors reflect back on their life, they often choose significant moments that lead to a change or an epiphany (realization).
In this experience, you will read an example of a personal narrative and analyze how the author changed as a result of the experience described in the text. You will also evaluate how humor helps your understanding of both the text and the message.
Objectives:
What do you think this quote means? How does it relate to your life? Share a brief description of a moment where you have had to face a fear.
Invite volunteers to share their personal experiences with the group. Use student responses to discuss that by facing our fears we can learn things about ourselves that we wouldn’t have realized without that experience.
