Generate and maintain a heart-map as a year-long personal-narrative topic bank
Exercise Difficulty 1 ~10 min eng.g3.f.ex_01

Heart Map Build

Prompt

Draw a heart on the page. Inside, draw or label 4 SPECIFIC SMALL-MOMENT SEEDS — moments from your life, each anchored to a place, a person or object, and one thing that happened.

M-3-F-EX-01 Illustration
Reference image of a partial heart-map showing 4 sample wedges with tiny pencil drawings (Grandma + dough, fishing pier,

Reference image of a partial heart-map showing 4 sample wedges with tiny pencil drawings (Grandma + dough, fishing pier, recital, first-day-bus) and 5-10 word labels. Print-ready 8.5x11, classroom annotation style.

How it's presented
mode drawing and writing paper blank
Answer criteria
type rubric
criteria
  1. Heart drawn
  2. 4 wedges populated
  3. Each wedge is specific (not 'family' or 'school')
  4. Each wedge has a place + person/object + one thing that happened
Hints
  1. Avoid categories ('family', 'sports'). Pick a moment.
  2. Use the MG-14 prompt-prime photo cards if you freeze.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Writes broad categories instead of specific moments.
  • Treats each wedge as a list of related events.
Used in lessons