Autobiographical Narrative Week 8 October 23 rd, 2013

The plan…. Hand out and explain vocabulary notebooks and writing folders Objectives Review – The Writing Process: Pre-writing – My Friend named Venn – Compare and Contrast Narrative Autobiography Prewriting Homework – Complete Outline and 1 st Draft

Objectives Students will understand the characteristics of autobiographical writing Students will be able to select voice and style appropriate to audience and purpose Students will be able to capitalize correctly to clarify meaning

Objectives Student will be able to generate ideas and plans for writing using prewriting strategies such as brainstorming and graphic organizers

Review

The Writing Process Prewriting – Exploring and choosing ideas – Gathering information and organizing details Drafting – Written ideas in a layout similar to the desired product

Compare

Nonfiction

Fiction

Contrast

Narrative A story that relates a series of events to the audience or listener in a sequence of pictures, written or spoken word Some examples of narrative writing include: Non-fiction – History books, biographies, autobiographies, news “Based on” stories, or fictionalized accounts – Myths, legends, anecdotes, docu-dramas Fiction – Novels, poems, short stories Other media – Film, photography, songs, speech, writing

Autobiographical Writing Tells the story of an event or person in the writer’s life. Some examples of autobiographical writing include: Personal Narratives– autobiographical incidents – Tell the story of a specific event in your life Sketches– autobiographical narratives – Describe a time or group of events in your life, offering insight into them Reflective Essays – Recount an experience and give your thoughts on its meaning Memoirs – Are the true story of your relationship with a person, place, or animal, including your thoughts and feelings

Prewriting Remember you are writing something true about yourself! You can pick a single event/time in your life that you remember or a group of events/time in your life You could write about someone or something important to you and how you feel about that You could also write about an experience in your life

How-to Prewrite BRAINSTORMING! – Use the two short columns on your worksheet to come up with some ideas to write about summer camp Eid vacation my new puppy most embarrassing moment

How-to Prewrite Then pick one and write a main idea or topic sentence Fill in the topic sentence space under each large heading Then fill in the other lines with details The day I took my new puppy home was a special day full of fun and hardships.

How-to Prewrite Fill in the topic sentence space under each large heading The day I took my new puppy home was a special day full of fun and hardships. Our 1 st meeting at home was really crazy. 1 st meeting

How-to Prewrite Then fill in the other lines with details Our 1 st meeting at home was really crazy. 1 st meeting Got home from the airport; really crazy with the snowstorm, cancelled flights and traffic getting home I was impatient in the car and sped on the way home through traffic to see my new puppy When I got home the puppy was loose in my room and pooped over EVERYTHING!

Let’s Practice! On your worksheet – Do your own brainstorming – Pick an idea – Write a topic sentence – Fill in the headers – Plug in more details Whatever you don’t finish is homework

Homework Any unfinished classwork is homework – Finish filling in the outline with information and details relevant to your topic Due on Thursday, October 24 th, 2013