EXPLORING
PERSONAL NARRATIVE
A
Drawing/Illustration Minilesson Activity
Kathy
Jhugdeo
Purpose
The goal of this
minilesson is to allow students to use their creativity to produce a drawing or
illustration that represents them.�
Through this activity, students will be able to explore their
individuality and uniqueness through drawing.�
By learning how to express themselves in creative ways, students are
learning that writing is not the only form of self expression in the ELA
classroom.� The Drawing/Illustration
Minilesson Activity will serve as the culminating activity to wrap up our study
of personal narratives.� Students will
use their drawing/illustration to accompany their personal narrative and will
use it as an artifact in their Reading/Writing Portfolios.
Objectives
NCSC:�
7th grade
Competency Goal 5:� The learner will respond to
various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes.
5.02 Study the characteristics of literary genres (fiction,
nonfiction, drama, and poetry) through:
NCTE/IRA:� Grade 7
Standard 12: Students
use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g.
for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information)
Time Required:� 30
minutes
Activity:� Students create drawing/illustrations to
represent personal narratives.
Follow Up:� Drawing/Illustration as artifact in
Reading/Writing Portfolio
Materials Needed:
Drawing paper
(legal document size)
Crayons
Markers
Colored pencils
Students may also
use their own materials
Script:
(You should have
all materials set out on a table for students to have easy access to.)� Good morning class. Yesterday we discussed
our minilesson activity that you would be participating in today.� I hope that you have come to class prepared
today.� You should have brought with you
a copy of your personal narrative.�
Today, you will be creating a drawing/illustration to accompany your
personal narrative that will serve as an artifact in your Reading/Writing
Portfolio. (There may be some students who did not bring their personal
narrative.) You will be given a sheet of drawing paper and I have also provided
many different kinds of drawing supplies to help you create illustrations.� Before we start working on our illustrations,
I want to ask you a question:� What do
you think your illustrations should represent?�
(Possible answers include:� I
should draw a picture of me, they should represent something I like, they
should represent things I like to do or my hobbies.)� (Clarify for students explicitly the purpose
of the illustration activity.)� This
illustration activity is to specifically represent your personal narrative that
you have written.� You may want to draw a
scene from your narrative or a draw a specific event.� I want you to be really creative and fun with
this assignment, but please do not merely have illustrations that do not have
any connection to your personal narrative.�
( Allow students to have 30 minutes to work on the activity, and if they
have not finished they may take their drawing/illustrations home and finish
them.)
Follow Up:� Thank
you for working so hard on your drawing/illustrations of your personal
narrative.� You will now be able to use
these as an artifact in your Reading/Writing Portfolios.� I hope that you have enjoyed this
activity.� Activities like this one,
usually seem less difficult than they really are.� I hope that you have learned more about
yourself through this activity.� I also
hope that this activity has helped you experience a different way of self
expression that is equally as challenging as writing.�