narrative personal and story writing. narrative writing a narrative is a story. narrative ~ a...

19

Click here to load reader

Upload: mitchell-elliott

Post on 14-Jan-2016

221 views

Category:

Documents


1 download

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

NarrativePersonal and story writing

Page 2: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Narrative Writing

•A Narrative is a STORY.•Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events.•Personal Narrative~ A TRUE story about an event that happened in your life.

Page 3: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

OrderBeginning: • Introduce characters, place

Middle: • Events happen (Rising Action)• Use details • Keep the events progressing forward

End: • Result (Falling Action)

Page 4: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Narrative Writing

• Tell a fictional story.•Write the events in order. • Remember your plot diagrams.• You can do flashbacks.• Paragraphs can be any size. INDENT!• Still proper grammar, spelling and

capitalization.

Page 5: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Dialogue• Indent for each new speaker.• Use quotation marks. • Use commas inside the quotation marks,

then who said the words.

Page 6: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Dialogue “Wow,” Jim said as he walked down the

eerie hallway to his destination. “I can’t believe it!”

“Hey, wait up!” Joe yelled, as he saw his friends shadow disappear around the corner. Blah, blah, blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, Blah,blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah.

“Relax bro,” Jim retorted.

Page 7: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Back and Forth Conversation

“Look at that,” Jim said. “I know,” whispered Joe. “How do you know?” “I just do.” “Yeah, right.”(You can stop using their names each time

when they talk back and forth right away).

Page 8: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Continued Talking• No Capital letter if you continue after you

write: I said or Joe said “Sir,” I said to the officer, “the kid just

broke his arm.”

Page 9: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Narrative Vocabulary

•Cause and effect: Do something, something happens

•Chronological order: Events go in order of TIME

Page 10: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Narrative Vocabulary

• Flashback: Go back in time to explain an event or feeling• Foreshadowing: Hints to future events•Adjectives: Describe nouns• Sensory language: See, hear, feel, taste,

smell

Page 11: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Figurative Language

• Idiom: Piece of cake•Personification: The wind was

screaming…•Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp

Page 12: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Figurative Language

• Simile: She was like a tiger on the court.•Metaphor: She was a tiger…•Hyperbole: I am so hungry I could eat a

horse. I am so tired I could die.•Alliteration: Billy Bob bought a bright blue

BMW.

Page 13: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Point of View

First Person: • Character is the narrator.• Use “I” and “we”

Page 14: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Introduction

• The “Hook”• Catch the readers attention!•Provide the information the reader will

need to understand the story•Who are the major characters? When and

where is it taking place? Is it a story about something that happened to you, the writer, or is it fiction?

Page 15: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Body paragraphs

• Show – don’t tell• includes details and descriptions• Use all five senses to add details about what

you heard, saw, and felt during the event. • For example, “My heart jumped as the dark shape of the brown

grizzly lurched toward me out of the woods” provides more information about what the writer saw and felt than, “I saw a bear when I was hiking”. Supporting Evidence In a personal

• Passage of time• Chronological order• Transitions

Page 16: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Conclusion

The Moral of the Story• Include the closing action of the event• Include some reflection or analysis of the

significance of the event to the writer.• What lesson did you learn?• How has what happened to you affected your life

now?

Page 17: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Name: ___________________________

Title: ___________________________________

Main Character (s) :__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Setting (Where & When) :____________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Main Conflict:______________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Plot Beginning :_____________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Plot Middle :_______________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Climax :___________________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Plot Resolution:_____________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Personal Narrative PLANNER

Page 18: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal

Personal Narrative Checklist

1. The introduction has an eff ective hook.

2. The essay contains suffi cient background information,

including setting and revelation of character.

3. The essay focuses on one main incident in the author’s lif e.

4. The events of the story are arranged in chronological order.

5. The essay uses creative word choice, sensory details

and figurative language.

6. The essay reveals the author's thoughts and feelings throughout.

7. Transitions of time, place and events are used eff ectively

to connect ideas.

8. The conclusion reveals the overall meaning of the event, the lesson

learned, or the insight gained from the experience for the author.

9. The essay is relatively free of mistakes in spelling, grammar, usage,

mechanics.

10. The essay is legible and properly formatted.

Page 19: Narrative Personal and story writing. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY. Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events. Personal