Stage 1 Desired Results

Established Goals:
11-12.W.1: Write routinely over a variety of time frames for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences; apply
reading standards to support analysis, reflection, and research by drawing evidence from literature and nonfiction
texts.
11-12.W.3.3: Write narrative compositions in a variety of forms that
Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing
one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters.
Create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop
experiences, events, and/or characters.
Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and
build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense of mystery, suspense, growth, or resolution).
Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences,
events, setting, and/or characters.
Provide an ending that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of
the narrative.
11-12.W.4: Apply the writing process to
Plan and develop; draft; revise using appropriate reference materials; rewrite; try a new approach, focusing on
addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience; and edit to produce and strengthen writing
that is clear and coherent.
Use technology to generate, produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing
feedback, including new arguments or information.

Understandings:
Tone is affected by many
elements.
An author can control his/her
readers experience with a
text.

Students Will Know:

Qualities of mystery literature
Inference Gaps
Suspense
Tone
Foreshadowing
Characterization

Essential Questions:
What roles do inference and
inference gaps play in a
narrative?
How does an author build
suspense?

Students Will Be Able to:

Plan a plots inference gaps
Write with suspense
Use tone to enhance writing

Stage 2 Assessment Evidence

Performance Tasks



Marking the Text identifying mystery
elements in literature
Writing Process

Other Evidence

Written Assessment: Rubric based;
1000+ words

Stage 3 Learning Plan

Plan out and

create your own
mystery; 1000+
words

Sharing

Define: mystery

Note taking: what
makes mystery
effective?

Plan / Plot

Read and Analyze:

Philomel Cottage

Mystery Game (x2)

Practice:
Writing physical
descriptions
Writing with eerie
words/phrases
Word choice
Planning

Characterization
Suspense
Tone
Description
Inference Gaps

Practice

3
Extend

Inform

Image

Refine

Attend

Connect

Perform

Stage 3 Learning Plan