Personal Narrative

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Personal Narrative

• Unit 1
• W3
• W5

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Personal Narrative

• a story about you
• (NOT an autobiography)

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Write with a purpose

• Development
• meaningful experience
• well-chosen details
• dialogue description
• significance of experience
• conclusion
• What are you willing to write about?

sad funny happy scary most important most
exciting
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ideas

• Skydiving
• learned about taking risks to challenge myself
  have the experience
• Look at your 3 personal narrative ideas. Think
  about the significance of each. Write the
  significance beside each idea.

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Write with a purpose

• Organization
• logical sequence
• pacing
• Language
• first-person POV
• precise descriptive (sensory) language
• Audience
• teacher classmates

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Examples

• http//my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/nsmedia/ebook_gr9
  /write_smart/WriteSmart.html?moduleIndex1subSect
  ion1
• Strong example
• Weak example
• comparison

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Strong personal narrative model
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Strong personal narrative model
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Strong personal narrative model
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Weak personal narrative model
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Weak personal narrative model
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Write with a purpose

• Development
• meaningful experience
• well-chosen details
• dialogue description
• significance of experience
• conclusion
• What are you willing to write about?

sad funny happy scary most important most
exciting
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Prewriting

• experience
• event1
• event 2
• event 3
• event 4
• event 5
• significance
• sound sight

Setting
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Assignment

• Step 1
• decide on topic
• Step 2
• complete prewriting graphic organizer on
  notebook paper
• Step 3
• begin FIRST draft of personal narrative on
  another piece of notebook paper
• think about your purpose
• use p.177 179 as guides to first draft
  process
• ok to make revisions on draft