Narrative
You will be crafting your own narrative, focusing on a snapshot of your life...a moment that is important to you for one reason or another. Please click on the links below to find the assignment detail and rubric for the narrative!
Assignment Details
Rubric
Assignment Details
Rubric
Pre-Writing Activities and Materials
Example Narratives
In class, we will read a variety of narratives and analyze the narrative technique that was used in each. The first one we will read and analyze together as a class. Please click on the link(s) below to find the narratives:
"Into the Dark" (A Story about a boy aboard the Titanic)
Personal Narrative Banks:
"The Hero Within"
"The Pit"
"Life or Death"
"Adventure in the Rough"
"Band Camp"
"An Airplane Story"
"The Fart" OR look at the pdf file below
In class, we will read a variety of narratives and analyze the narrative technique that was used in each. The first one we will read and analyze together as a class. Please click on the link(s) below to find the narratives:
"Into the Dark" (A Story about a boy aboard the Titanic)
Personal Narrative Banks:
"The Hero Within"
"The Pit"
"Life or Death"
"Adventure in the Rough"
"Band Camp"
"An Airplane Story"
"The Fart" OR look at the pdf file below
the_fart_that.pdf | |
File Size: | 195 kb |
File Type: |
Sensory Details Mini-Lesson
Before you write, you will get your feet well in writing about sensory details. First, we will be going to the wetlands to observe our fives senses at play in nature! You will receive a copy of the file below to do this. If you are absent the day we do this, please do this on your own out in nature somewhere near your own house!
Sensing the Wetlands
Showing Vs. Telling
Look at the following piece of example writing to see the difference between someone telling about an event/setting and someone showing the same event through sensory details and dialogue.
Showing Vs. Telling
Dialogue Mini-Lesson
In your narrative, you will need to use some dialogue. Look at the file below to see what really good dialogue looks like and to get some hints about implementing it into your writing!
Writing Great Dialogue
Narrative Writing Planner and Storyboard Organizer
You will plan your narrative, making sure you have all of the qualities of a great narrative hashed out before you begin writing it! Click on the file below to find the planner and storyboard you will complete.
Writing Planner & Storyboard
Here is an example of Ms. Lorey's Storyboard
Here is an example of Ms. Lorey's Writing Planner