How do writers engage their readers in a story? Pupils consider the question and use the informational text, "The Hero's Journey" to justify their plan for their own fictional narrative. To that end, scholars write an explanatory paragraph describing how their narrative plans for a hero's journey aligns with the archetype of the text.

Concepts

the hero's journey, fictional narratives, Narrative Writing, percy jackson and the olympians: the lightning thief, informational texts, explanatory writing

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Provide sentence frames to help students with limited English proficiency compose their paragraphs

Classroom Considerations

• Third of seven lessons from the Grade 6 ELA Module 1, Unit 3 series
• Students should be familiar with Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief

Pros

• Offers strategies for differentiated instruction
• Includes helpful teaching tips

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.6.2.a W.6.2.b W.6.2.f W.6.3.a W.6.3.b W.6.9.b