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09 Publishing Your Narrative

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.You have planned each part of your narrative, and you’ve written your exposition. Now, it’s
time to write the rest of your story—the rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
As you write, make sure you include:
• vivid language, strong details, and sensory imagery
• a flashback, flash-forward, or dream sequence to give insight into characters’ actions
and feelings
• at least four lines of properly formatted dialogue that develop characters and conflict
• techniques to purposefully vary the pace, like repetition of words or phrases, short
and/or long sentences, punctuation that makes the reader stop, etc.
• a semicolon to join two related independent clauses
Your completed story should be between 500–700 words in length.

Part 1 – Organizing Your Ideas

Paste your Exposition from 1.06:
-Copy and paste your already-written exposition from your Narrative Planner.

We had just gotten ready for the day. Everyone is leaving the dorm rooms and getting some breakfast.
As they were, we decided to get our shoes and bags packed to head out. First, I told my friend Emma
that we were going to get some breakfast. Emma was a blonde girl, who was in 7 th grade, she is very
energetic. But suddenly I had to tell her many times, because she was quite busy. I was very annoyed
at the time, so then I saw Lainey. Lainey is a white, brunette with brown eyes, she is sweet but bossy.
As I approached Lainey, I said, “Hey I am going to go get some breakfast before they close the doors”.
She instantly responded with, “No I'm not ready.” She responded I said, “Well I am going to go
because the doors are going to close soon.” I decided to leave, and Lainey stayed with Emma. Then we
ended up ignoring each other.
Write your Rising Action:
-The rising action is where you will describe the events that develop the conflict and
lead up to the climax. It’s a great place to include dialogue between characters.
Dialogue helps develop the characters and the conflict.

We were at the cafeteria eating, I looked towards my right and saw Lainey in line. “Oh...Lainey
actually came in time”, I said as I was talking to my friends. Lainey and I saw each other, but we just
walked past each other as she was just sitting down for breakfast. I left the cafeteria and just went on
with my day. After quite a while i went to go get acai bowls with my other friend but Lainey decided
that she wanted acai bowls. She said, “why didn’t you wait for me”. I said, “well you were eating, and I
really wanted acai bowls”. “Ok, whatever”, explained Lainey. we were done with the Acai bowls and
Lainey came up to me and said, “can we talk?” I said “sure”.

Write your Climax:

-The climax is the turning point of the conflict where you describe an event that forces
your protagonist to make an important decision or take action.

We were in our dorm rooms, Lainey asked me “Is everything okay because you have been not talking
to me and I just want to know what's wrong!” I said, “No, I'm fine can we just forget about it.” I left
the dorm room and tried to forget the drama. Suddenly, I had to go back to the dorms to get
something, so I ran back, and Lainey was Calling her mother. I said “hey, it's not a big deal we can just
forget about it and move on” As I said that Lainey said, “well I think we should talk about it and what
we are doing to each other.” “It's honestly not a big deal Lainey, so let's just leave it in the past and
not make a big deal about it”, I Said.
Write your Falling Action:
-The falling action shows the events that occur after the protagonist makes the key
decision in the story. This is where you show how the protagonist handles the outcome
of his or her choice. You can also show how other characters are impacted by the
protagonist’s decision..

I left the dorm rooms and went to find some of my friends. As I was on my way to rec, I saw Lainey
hanging out with my friends. I was very surprised because she had just met them. With this, it was a
little hurtful because I wanted to have someone to talk to since my best friend and I weren't on good
terms. So, I decided it was time to forget about it and move on from what had happened. I sat with
people I barely knew and didn’t talk to anyone.

Write your Resolution:

-The resolution is where you provide a conclusion that answers the reader’s questions
and shows how the conflict is resolved. Your protagonist should arrive at the resolution
as a changed individual.

When camp was over, we had to get our bags packed and checkout. It has been a couple of weeks and
Lainey and I still had not talked since camp. Our parents found out and they texted each other About
getting coffee together. We decided If we wanted that friendship back, we had to try. My mom and I
started to walk towards the coffee shop and then we sat by Lainey and her parents. It was awkward as
we were sitting there in silence but then our parents started the conversation. They asked us what
happened, and we told them the whole story. Now since I look back at that it was a ridiculous fight
that could not have been that big of a deal, and truly forgive Lainey. We forgave each other and went
back with our crazy lives.
Part 2 – Developing Your Narrative
Now, copy and paste each part of your story below. Your entire narrative should consist of
the rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Narrative Final Draft Grading Rubric
Narrative Final Draft Good to Go
Plot 24–30 points
30 points The narrative is between
500–700 words; has a
clear beginning, middle,
and end; and has well-
developed plot elements
of exposition, rising
action, climax, falling
action, and resolution.
Characters 16–20 points
20 points Characters are
thoroughly developed
and descriptions of their
thoughts, feelings, and
actions are included.
Dialogue 8–10 points
10 points At least four lines of
properly formatted
dialogue that develop the
Needs Improvement
0–23 points
The narrative is not
between 500–700 words;
does not have a clear
beginning, middle, and
end; and/or does not
have well-developed plot
elements of exposition,
rising action, climax,
falling action, and
resolution.
0–15 points
Characters are not
thoroughly developed
and/or descriptions of
their thoughts, feelings,
and actions are not
included.
0–7 points
Less than four lines of
properly formatted
dialogue that develop the
 characters and conflict characters and conflict
are included. are included.

Pacing 8–10 points 0–7 points

10 points Techniques are used to Techniques are not used

purposefully vary the to purposefully vary the
pace of the narrative. pace of the narrative.

Language and 8–10 points 0–7 points

Description

Vivid language, strong Vivid language, strong

10 points details, and sensory details, and sensory
images are used to images are not used to
describe the characters, describe the characters,
setting, and events. setting, and events.

Narrative Techniques 4–5 points 0–3 points

5 points A flashback, flash- A flashback, flash-

forward, or dream forward, or dream
sequence is used to sequence is not used to
provide insights into provide insights into
characters’ actions and characters’ actions and
feelings. feelings.

Semicolon 4-5 points 0-3 points

5 points At least one semicolon is A semicolon is not used

used correctly to join two and/or is not used
related independent correctly to join two
clauses. related independent
clauses.
Grammar and Spelling 8-10 points 0-7 points

10 points The narrative has few to The narrative has many

no grammatical and grammatical and spelling
spelling errors. errors.

Total /100

100 points