1. W3 N ARRATIVE Personal and story writing

2. N ARRATIVE W RITING 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.

3. ELAGSE7W3: W RITE NARRATIVES TO DEVELOP REAL OR IMAGINED EXPERIENCES OR EVENTS USING EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUE, RELEVANT DESCRIPTIVE DETAILS, AND WELL - STRUCTURED EVENT SEQUENCES. a. Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically. b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. c. Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another. d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events. e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.

4. H OW DO I USE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES, DESCRIPTIVE DETAILS, AND WELL - STRUCTURED EVENT SEQUENCES TO WRITE NARRATIVES ?

5. A. E NGAGE AND ORIENT THE READER BY ESTABLISHING A CONTEXT AND POINT OF VIEW AND INTRODUCING A NARRATOR AND / OR CHARACTERS ; ORGANIZE AN EVENT SEQUENCE THAT UNFOLDS NATURALLY AND LOGICALLY.

6. O RDER Beginning: Introduce characters and setting (time and place) Middle: Events happen/conflicts (Rising Action) Use descriptive details Keep the events progressing forward End: Result (Falling Action)

7. P OINTS TO C ONSIDER : Will you use chronological order? Will you use cause and effect?

8. P OINT OF V IEW First Person: Character is the narrator. Use “I” and “we” Second Person: When the narrator puts the reader in place of the main character. Uses “you” Third Person Limited: Only see the perspective of one character. Third Person Omniscient: The narrator knows the thoughts of all characters. You see the story from many perspectives.

9. B. U SE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES, SUCH AS DIALOGUE, PACING, AND DESCRIPTION, TO DEVELOP EXPERIENCES, EVENTS, AND / OR CHARACTERS.

10. D IALOGUE Indent for each new speaker. Use quotation marks. Use commas inside the quotation marks, then who said the words.

11. “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.

12. B ACK AND F ORTH C ONVERSATION “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).

13. C ONTINUED T ALKING No capital letter if you continue after you write: I said or Joe said “Sir,” I said to the officer, “the kid just broke his arm.”

14. N ARRATIVE V OCABULARY When you are telling your story, you may want to use techniques such as: Flashback: Go back in time to explain an event or feeling Foreshadowing: Hints to future events

15. C. U SE A VARIETY OF TRANSITION WORDS, PHRASES, AND CLAUSES TO CONVEY SEQUENCE AND SIGNAL SHIFTS FROM ONE TIME FRAME OR SETTING TO ANOTHER.

16. U SE T RANSITIONS : Transitions: show how ideas, sentences, and paragraphs are connected. communicate the organization of your writing are stepping stones that help the reader get from one idea to the next.

17. C OMMON T RANSITIONS Transitions run the gamut from the most simple — the little conjunctions: o and, o but, o nor, o yet, o or, o (and sometimes) so — to more complex signals that ideas are somehow connected — the conjunctive adverbs and transitional expressions such as o however, o moreover, o nevertheless, o on the other hand.

18. D. U SE PRECISE WORDS AND PHRASES, RELEVANT DESCRIPTIVE DETAILS, AND SENSORY LANGUAGE TO CAPTURE THE ACTION AND CONVEY EXPERIENCES AND EVENTS.

19. D ESCRIPTIVE DETAILS I NCLUDE : Adjectives: Describe nouns Adverbs: Tell when, where, or how something is done or to what degree Sensory language: Appeals to the senses: What do you see, hear, feel, taste, smell?

20. F IGURATIVE L ANGUAGE Idiom : Piece of cake Personification : The wind was screaming… Simile : She was like a tiger on the court. Metaphor : She was a tiger… Hyperbole : I am so hungry I could eat a horse. Alliteration : Billy Bob bought a bright blue BMW.

21. F IND EXAMPLES OF DESCRIPTIVE DETAILS AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE STORY “T HREE S KELETON K EY.” Discuss what these details add to the story.

22. L OOK AT THE FOLLOWING FROM A SURVIVAL STORY : Which example is more appealing? Rescuers say the group survived even though it was cold outside. Rescuers say that a series of good choices enabled the group to survive without frostbite or injuries, despite temperatures which dropped to 21 degrees below zero. What descriptive details do you notice? What do the descriptive details add?

23. E. P ROVIDE A CONCLUSION THAT FOLLOWS FROM AND REFLECTS ON THE NARRATED EXPERIENCES OR EVENTS.

24. N ARRATIVE W RITING Tell a fictional story. Write the events in order. Remember your plot diagrams. You can do flashbacks. Paragraphs can be any size. INDENT! Use proper grammar, spelling and capitalization.

25. S URVIVAL N ARRATIVE D ICE S TORY /I DEAS LOSTCHARACTERYOU HAVE NO____ In a forestDoctorWater At seaKidFood In a mallPolice OfficerBoat In a desertTeacherWay to make a fire In AlaskaU.S. MarineFlares FREE CHOICE

26. S URVIVAL IN THE W ILDERNESS N ARRATIVE RUBRIC RUBRIC Use all three sentence structures: Bold an example of each. Simple Compound Complex Adjectives Underline all the adjectives. Sensory Language – Touch, hear, see, taste, smell. Cause & Effect event Figurative Language: Highlight two on your final copy. Fill in pre-write story MAP Conversations