Writing a Narrative About Fairness
Grade
Grade 2
UNIT
7
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Fairness
Unit 7, Lesson 3, “Writing a Narrative About Fairness,” reinforces the vocabulary word fairness. Students will write narratives about how they, or a character they create, have shown fairness. Students will recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
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SUGGESTED TIME:
20 minutes
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Demonstrate comprehension of the word fairness
- Create a narrative that recounts a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events
- Include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings
- Use temporal words to signal event order
- Provide a sense of closure
- Demonstrate understanding of standard English sentence structure and grammar
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Prohuman Grade 2 Unit 7 Worksheet 3: Writing a Narrative About Fairness
VOCABULARY:
- Fairness: I treat everyone the same. If someone has been left out, I bring them in.
ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS MET
CHARACTER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (CSED) NATIONAL STANDARDS MET
LESSON PROCEDURE
Today we will write a narrative about fairness, with a beginning, middle, and end.
- We read two stories about fairness, one about the character Grace from Grace for President, the other a true story about Nkosi Johnson.
- Our stories should do four things. Let’s go through all four things with an example story.
- First, the story should focus on one event in detail, or a short sequence of events. I am going to write a story about a short sequence of events that explain how a character that I create, named Ricardo, showed fairness.
- Second, the story should include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings. Third, the story should use temporal words to signal event order.
- Beginning: Ricardo felt that his friends were not being fair on the playground. There were three candy bars and three friends—Ricardo, Javier, and Lucien—but one of the friends, Javier, wanted to take all three candy bars. Ricardo felt that each friend should have one candy bar.
- Middle: Ricardo said nicely to Javier that it is good to be fair to others. He asked him, “Javier, would you please give one candy bar to Lucien and one to me? Then we will all have one each.”
Finally, the story should provide a sense of closure.
- End: Javier said that he really liked the candy bars, but he wanted to be fair. He gave one candy bar to Lucien and one to Ricardo. The friends were happy that Javier had shown fairness and that they all enjoyed a candy bar.
- Now you will write your own story on your worksheet.
NOTE: Collect and keep the worksheet on the following page for the next day’s lesson in which students will share their stories with a partner.
GRADE 2 UNIT 7 WORKSHEET 3: WRITING A NARRATIVE ABOUT FAIRNESS
Fairness: I treat everyone the same. If someone has been left out, I bring them in.
ACTIVITY: Write a story about how you, or a character you create, show fairness.
Beginning:
Middle:
End:
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