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    This document provides information and guidance about writing narratives. It discusses different types of narratives, including fictional narratives where events are made up, and personal narratives which recount true stories from one's life. It also covers narrative structure, with a beginning to introduce characters and setting, a middle where events progress in chronological order, and an end that provides a result or falling action. Additional elements covered include dialogue formatting, vocabulary like chronology and flashbacks, and points of view like first, second, and third person. Character traits, figurative language, and narrative analysis are also addressed.

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    This document provides information and guidance about writing narratives. It discusses different types of narratives, including fictional narratives where events are made up, and personal narratives which recount true stories from one's life. It also covers narrative structure, with a beginning to introduce characters and setting, a middle where events progress in chronological order, and an end that provides a result or falling action. Additional elements covered include dialogue formatting, vocabulary like chronology and flashbacks, and points of view like first, second, and third person. Character traits, figurative language, and narrative analysis are also addressed.

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    NARRATIVE

    Personal and story writing


    NARRATIVE
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj-eh5VFsg0
    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.
    ORDER
    Beginning:
    Introduce characters, place
    Middle:
    Events happen (Rising Action)
    Use details
    Keep the events progressing forward (No
    two pages on how the dude made a sandwich).

    End:
    Result (Falling Action)
    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.
    DIALOGUE
     Indentfor each new speaker.
     Use quotation marks.
     Use commas inside the quotation marks,
    then who said the words.
    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).
    “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.
    CONTINUED TALKING
     NoCapital letter if you continue after
    you write: I said or Joe said

    “Sir,” I said to the officer, “the kid just


    broke his arm.”
    NARRATIVE VOCABULARY
    Cause and effect: Do
    4something, something happens

    Chronological order: 5 Events


    go in order of TIME
    NARRATIVE VOCABULARY
    6 Flashback: Go back in time to explain
    an event or feeling
    8Foreshadowing: Hints to future events
    7Adjectives: Describe nouns
    9Sensory language: See, hear, feel, taste,
    smell
    FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

    Idiom: Piece of cake


    Personification: The wind was
    screaming…
    Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp
    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.
    POINT OF VIEW
    10First Person: Character is the narrator.
    Use “I” and “we”

    13Second Person: When the narrator puts


    the reader in place of the main character.
    Uses “you”

    11Third Person Limited: Only see the


    perspective of one character.
    POINT OF VIEW
    Third Person Omniscient: 13
    The narrator knows the thoughts of all
    characters. You see the story from many
    perspectives.
    CHARACTER TRAITS
     CLASS COPY
     Read through with partner

     Think of fav. Fictional character


     Fav book, movie, TV show

     Followthe flow chart and diagrams


     Copy and complete them in your
     NB: writing section
    “HOME RUN”
     Read the poem
     Analyze how the moment gets slowed down

     Answer the questions in your NB: writing section


    GROUP WORK
     You will be working in groups and analyzing 4 different
    personal narratives
     For each of the narratives you must use SOAPSTone
     “We’re Poor”
     “Salvation”
     “Frank Sinatra’s Gum”
     “The Death of a Moth”
    “MY DECISION AT DAIRY QUEEN”
    PERSONAL NARRATIVE
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWHc5Yar6Ps
     What is an important lesson you learned?

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