Eating Pasta Together

6th – 8th Grade

Learning + Food Objectives:
Students will learn how food connects us to our family by writing a narrative around how a special recipe or dish has played a role in your life or in your family.

Common Core Standards:
Common Core English Language Arts

Narrative Writing Using Details and Transition Words

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6-8.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6-8.3.A
Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.3.B
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

Lesson written in partnership with the Urban School Food Alliance.