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title: All About Me
description: Students will share ideas about their own and others’ lived experiences and previous learning.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/all_about_me-001-2.png
---

**Subject: ESL/ELL (English Language Learning)**

**Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour**

**Topic: Narration, Expression**

**Grade Level: 6, 7, 8**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [WIDA: ELD.SI.4-12.Narrate](https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/files/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Students will share ideas about their own and others’ lived experiences and previous learning.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should be familiar with what it means to narrate or explain an experience.

**Hook:**

- Ask students: 
    - “What can we learn about a person when they share a story about themselves?”
    - “How can you choose an interesting story to share?”
    - “Why should we listen to stories other people tell?”

**Activity:**

- Have students think of a significant event in their lives that they are willing to share in small groups.
- Have students create a person or a character with similar characteristics as themselves.
- Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a comic displaying their character having an experience that reflects something that really happened.

**Closure:**

- Have students share their comics with the class or in small groups.
- Have students explain how they may learn about similarities they have with other class members who have had similar experiences.
- Emphasize that learning about other people’s experiences helps to get to know them better and make connections.
- If time permits, have students respond to each other’s narratives by asking questions about details in the story or by sharing their own similar experiences.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to define what a significant experience is for themselves, and to decide which details they are comfortable sharing.
- Allow students to use digital dictionaries/translators as appropriate for your class policy.
- Help students use first-person and third-person forms of verbs as appropriate.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/rhgqnrh).
- [4 Circles Sequence Chart](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_07.pdf)
- [9 Boxes Sequence Chart](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_08.pdf)
- [First, Next, Then, Last Sequence Chart](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_09.pdf)
- [Five Finger Retell](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_11.pdf)
- [Draw/Plan Then Write](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_10.pdf)
- [Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom](http://iteslj.org/questions/)

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2078531110531739648/thumbnail.png) Middle School ](https://content.pixton.com/middle-school)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1720501139696390144/thumbnail.png) Beach ](https://content.pixton.com/beach)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-sports-1.png) Sports ](https://content.pixton.com/sports)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1838241401767358464/thumbnail.png) Home ](https://content.pixton.com/home)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-farm-1.png) Farm ](https://content.pixton.com/farm)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2000163438120759296/thumbnail.png) Mall ](https://content.pixton.com/mall)

**Suggested Story Starters:**

- [ Personal Narrative ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/parts-of-a-story-personal-narrative)
- [ Funny Personal Narrative ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/funny-personal-narrative)

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