Narrative and NonNarrative writing Workshop

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Narrative and Non-Narrative writing  Workshop
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Mind Teaser Just for fun

• Ice-Breaker  Five - Minutes Activity

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• The Topic Overview

Application of  'narrative' and 'non-narrative'
writing
Skills and techniques for effective and
compelling writing
Gives solid foundation and develops set of skills
needed to write 'personal essay' .
Identify relationship between ideas and details
in a piece of writing
Numerous examples and opportunity to evaluate a
piece of writing
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Purpose of Personal Essay
1. What is Narrative , what is Non-narrative?

•  2. To create a unit with focused and
  organized
• writings that support a thesis.

3. collect supporting information and understand
the structure of an essay.    
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• Questions about a thesis statement

A claim, an idea, or an opinion, a fact or a
question?
Imaging, thinking and writing more ?
Say the right things?
Make it more accurate?
Making specific points?
Improve or support this?
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Gathering and developing information 
Being an only child is challenging.
Story 1 because it is lonely.
Story 2 people misunderstand me.
Story 3 parents put a lot of pressure on me.
It is fun to skate. 
Story When I am skating, people compliment me.
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Organizing Details

• Paragraph 1 Thesis with details.

Paragraph 2 2nd strongest details.
Paragraph 3 weakest details.
Paragraph 4 strongest details.
Paragraph 5 conclusion
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• The Draft

• Their stories truly match their thesis
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Andrea is a good friend to me. She pushes me to
do thing.  She is always there for me, etc.
Moving Into a Draft
Some people say..., but I say...
Many people think..., but I feel...
I used to think..., but now I realize...
Making introductions more literate
When people talk about missing school, I don't
understand it. I think school is extremely
important.
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Transitions

• Transitional words which introduce details

Reasons, Facts, Examples, Brief stories, Events,
etc.
Transitional words which show time order
After, Finally, Eventually, Soon, Next, etc.
Transitional words which show order of importance
First, Better, More important, Good, etc.
Transitional words which show comparison
As, Both, likewise, However, On the contrary, etc.
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Conclusions

• Teach about the checklist

Activities
Evaluation
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