English 9 Writing Assignment - A Personal Conflict

• GET SET:  Everyone faces conflicts in life; in fact, they are present every day. You might have to decide whether to argue with your parents or not - that is an internal conflict about which you must make a decision. You might get in an argument with your best friend - that is an external conflict that pits you against another person. Conflicts come in small packages (like when you run out of toothpaste and have to go find some more) and in heavy loads (like if you are a soccer player and you shatter your knee).
• OVERVIEW: This writing assignment requires that you remember a time in your life that you faced a conflict or challenge. The conflict you choose could be internal or external, it doesn't matter. What is important is that you can provide this key information:
1. A detailed description of the experience, from the start of the conflict to its conclusion (tell what happened - a narrative from beginning to end)
   
2. Accurate identification of what type of conflict it was (internal or external, and what force you faced, whether a person, a group, nature, etc.)
3. A full explanation of something you learned or took away from the experience
4. A statement at the conclusion that reveals how you will deal with similar situations now that you have learned from the original experience
• FORMAT: Your writing will be in paragraph format. That means we will do some reminder lessons on the Step-Up to Writing strategies
• GRADING: Grading will be by checklist
• Student includes a topic sentence at the beginning that states what he/she learned from the experience
• Student "tells the story" of the conflict/challenge - from its start to its finish
• Student's telling of the story includes a setting that gives the time and place
• Student presents himself/herself as the protagonist or main character using first person "I"
• Student identifies the type of conflict accurately
• Student explains how and what he/she learned from the experience
• Student concludes by stating how he/she will react when faced with a similar conflict in the future (or how he/she will avoid similar conflicts in the future) 

DUE DATE: Thursday, Sept. 22