Common App College Essay Admissions Personal Narrative Writing Unit 2024-25

Looking for a NO-PREP, EDITABLE, DIGITAL & PDF Common App College Essay Narrative Writing Unit BUNDLE? This unit breaks down the Common App Reflective Essay writing process into scaffolded and chunked steps. Make college essay writing accessible to ALL students with universal design.

INCLUDED:

1. Common App College Essay Brainstorm Outline Graphic Organizers PACK OF 3

This pack of three resources breaks down the Common App Reflective Essay writing process into scaffolded and chunked steps. Students will first do some personal reflections on concepts and topics that frequent the Common App prompts. Then, students will brainstorm possible narrative reflection essay topics for each of the seven Common App prompts. Lastly, students will briefly write a narrative story they have in mind for their essay. They will then choose the best fit 2023-2024 Common App prompt and rewrite their brief story in response to the specific prompt.

2. Common App College Essay Choosing a Prompt Graphic Organizer

This resource breaks down Common App Reflective Essay prompts. Students will choose a 2023-2024 Common App prompt and annotate it for key terms, follow-up-questions or sub-questions, and make connections to their personal experiences to brainstorm the focus of their essay. Then, students will create a visual mind map of their prompt annotations. Lastly, students will loosely outline an "Incident, Response, Reflect" response to the prompt for essay sequencing.

3.Common App College Essay Introduction Narrative Plot Line, FREE Handout

This FREE resource is an overview of the Common App Reflective Essay. It defines "Reflection," introduces the "Incident, Response, Reflect" plot line, and provides general content, language, and structure guidelines for college essay writing.

4. Common App College Essay Example Annotations Graphic Organizer

This resource breaks down annotating and evaluating a model Common App Reflective Essay into scaffolded and chunked steps. Students will review an annotation key with organizational and narrative requirements, and a sample 2023-2024 Common App prompt. Students will then evaluate the model essay with a provided rubric. Lastly, students will reflect on stand-out qualities and writing strategies from the model and brainstorm how they will implement these into their own writing.

5. Common App College Essay Narrative Writing Outline Graphic Organizer

Students will choose a 2023-2024 Common App prompt and plan the sequence of their narrative reflection using the "Incident, Response, Reflect" method to the prompt for essay sequencing. Lastly, students will use a 5-section college essay outline with prompts and side-by-side exemplary college essay excerpts (models) to draft their college essays.

These resources include:

1. College essay writing one-pager (narrative plotline)
2. Personal reflection brainstorming
3. Story-telling brainstorming & practice
4. Common App prompt overview, brainstorming, & selection
5. Chunked graphic organizers
6. College essay narrative writing outline
7. College essay model (example essay and annotations
8. Print PDF & EDITABLE digital Google docs (just make a copy!)

Additional information:

- This resource is universally designed: scaffolded, chunked, prompts, models, sentence stems, and graphic organizer.

- This resource can be used as print PDF and digital Google docs (EDITABLE).

- This resource is aligned with the Common App.

- Up to date with 2024-2025 Common App.