Name:Jonas Welliver

Date: 9/16/22
Period:2
Formative Assessment #2: Reflective Conclusion

Directions: Write one complete narrative totaling between 300 - 500 words. Choose one of
the following prompts below. Regardless of which prompt you choose, your narrative must
introduce a narrator, maintain a consistent point of view, introduce secondary character(s),
include a conflict, problem, or situation, and have a coherent conclusion in which your narrator
reflects on their experiences. Select your prompt by highlighting it. Begin typing your story on
page two.

Prompts:

Option #1: (Revise your first narrative)

1. Daisy and Myrtle, although from different backgrounds, both feel suppressed by social
expectations of women. They react and learn from these experiences. What is the
lesson or take away you have gained from the person, place, or thing that has
made the most impact on your life? Refer to your brainstorming and/or previous
writing from earlier lessons to add a reflective piece about the lesson learned from
your experience.

Option #2: (Choose one prompt from below)

1. Ownership, especially of houses, is a significant aspect of American society. Often
people’s identity and status are associated with the area in which they live, the kind of
house they live in, and if they own or rent. The narrator of this story describes his home
as “a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow,” and “an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore,
and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor’s
lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires --all for eighty dollars a month.”
Describe a place that is important to you (home, sport field, workshop, studio).
What does that important place tell us about your identity?

2. While observing the green light across the water, Gatsby felt reminiscent of his past love
and assured that he would reclaim his relationship with Daisy in the future. Is there a
symbolic item in your life that reminds you of your past self or inspires hope for a
future outcome?

3. Myrtle and George, though minor characters, make a tremendous impact on both the
Buchanans and Gatsby’s life. Choose a person, event, or interaction from your own
life who made a strong impression on you. Write a story about this person, event,
or interaction. You may use fictional names for your character.
Name:Jonas Welliver
Date: 9/16/22
Period:2
Formative Assessment #2: Reflective Conclusion

4. Is there a symbolic item in your life that reminds you of your past self or inspires
hope for a future outcome?
In life, any task worth your time takes time to accomplish everything worth having
has to be worked for, no item reminds me of this fact more than my bike. You see,
one day Bridget, my childhood best friend said to me, “Jonas, the fact that you
can not ride your bike without training wheels is most pitiful” for the rest of the
day she continued to mock me for my inability to ride that bike. So I went to my
father and told him “father, my inability to ride a bike without training wheels is
making me an object of mockery to my peers”. My father looked up from this copy
of Issak Asimov's I robot and responded “that will not do, come son it is time I
teach you how to ride a bicycle. My father, taking off the glasses and setting them
down on the table, rose from his armchair and shouted to my mother “I am leaving
to teach our son Jonas the proper way to utilize a bicycle for riding purposes”.
“Very well” my mother shouted, “be sure to bring him back before 9 o'clock”. My
father then proceeded to take my bicycle and load it into the back of that family
honda civic before ushering me into the car.

We arrived at the location of my teaching around half of an hour later. The

park to my young eyes seemed massive, stretching about the length of two
football fields from one end to the other and possessing a massive hill at its
center. It was the ideal place to teach a child to ride a bike. My father at first
started me with the basics. He demonstrated the proper way to balance one's self
on their bike. He then gave me the bike and told me “Now son it is your turn to
operate this vehicle” “but father” I responded “ I do not feel that a single
demonstration is enough to…” “tuff” My father said. So with trembling hands and
a nervous disposition I climbed on top of the bike and attempted to ride, I then
proceeded to fall off and skin my knee. I am ashamed to admit it but I cried as 8
year olds tend to do and my father had to transport me back home. He then
proceeded to take my back to try again the next day and the next until I finally
managed to ride the bike without falling. My father then said, "My son, I believe
that you are now ready to face your greatest challenge yet hurricane hill”. My
father then took me to the top of the hill and the center of the park and told me
“Jonas, in order to be considered a fully competent operator of the vehicular
device you must drive from here to the bottom of that hill without falling”. “But
father, what will happen if I fall?” I asked my father, feeling a current of
nervousness flowing through my body. He responded ”In that case it is likely you
Name:Jonas Welliver
Date: 9/16/22
Period:2
Formative Assessment #2: Reflective Conclusion
will break your bone causing your mother to be most displeased with me”. So I
climbed on top of my bike and took a deep breath before speeding down the hill.
As I flew down the hill the wind buffeting me all the way down threatening to throw
me off the bike. However I managed to keep my grip and Joy and acceleration of
that moment has stuck with me to this day. As a result my bike stands as a
reminder of what can be achieved through hard work and dedication.

Narrative Writing Rubric

 Name:Jonas Welliver
Date: 9/16/22
Period:2
Formative Assessment #2: Reflective Conclusion
By the end of this module you will be able to write a narrative that:
● engages and orients your reader (W.3.A),
● uses narrative techniques to develop experiences, events and/or characters (W.3.B), and
● includes a reflective conclusion on the experience. (W.3.E).

Criteria Mastery (100) Proficient (85) Developing (75) Beginning 65) N/S (0)

The text skillfully The text engages and The text attempts to The text struggles ● unintelligible
engages and orients the orients the reader by engage and orient the to establish a point ● off purpose
reader by establishing a establishing a reader with a limited of view, introduce ● too brief to
Engage & distinct point of view, consistent point of or unclear: point of the narrator and/or evaluate
introducing the narrator view, introducing the view, introduction of character(s), or ● not present
Orient the
and/or character(s), and narrator and/or the narrator and/or establish a problem
Reader thoughtfully establishing character(s), and character(s), or and/or situation
(W.3.A) the problem and/or establishing the problem and/or
situation and its problem and/or situation.
significance. situation and its
significance.

The text provides a The text provides a The text provides a The text provides ● unintelligible
coherent conclusion that coherent conclusion conclusion that concluding ideas ● off purpose
insightfully reflects on that reflects on what includes some that may not ● too brief to
what was experienced, was experienced, reflection on what connect to what evaluate
Conclusion/ observed, or resolved in observed, or was experienced, was experienced, ● not present
Reflection the story. resolved in the story. observed, or resolved observed, or
(W.3.E) in the story; resolved in the
conclusion may lack story; conclusion
clarity and/or depth. may lack
coherency.

Area(s) of Strength: Area(s) for Improvement: