For the concluding unit of this year-long scope and sequence, students will be reflecting on their own growth as a teenager by composing coming-of-age creative nonfiction essays. At the beginning of this unit, students will explore the genre of creative nonfiction by defining it, explaining characteristics of the genre, and by analyzing different examples of this style of writing. Then, students will embark on their own analysis of identity and brainstorm, outline, and compose a coming-of-age essay that develops the characteristics of the the creative nonfiction genre.
