A little past there out in the field, that's where the school was. So the teacher would have to send one of the older students to take me over to my brother, so I wouldn't have to play baptizing. Llorens Listach, Natchitoches Parish Grade Levels 4-8 Curriculum Areas English Language Arts, Social Studies Purpose of Lesson Students identify personal experience narratives in their own lives through telling stories themselves and collecting from family members or other adults. Students study personal experience narratives in Swapping Stories and compare vernacular or everyday language in these stories with literary versions of folktales. They compare personal experience narratives with oral histories, and 8th graders read a personal experience narrative of the north Louisiana folk artist Sarah Albritton, whose paintings also tell of her life experiences.
Students identify and share their own personal experience narratives.
Telling or retelling stories in sequence. Folktales from Louisiana . Identifying key differences of various genres. Students collect others' personal experience narratives and reflect on why they are told over and over. Analyzing the effects of an author's purpose and point of view.