1. Narrative Writing Notes
Writing through experience

2. Most Important Thing To Remember:
A narrative piece of writing TELLS A STORY.
This story is almost always non-fiction – or TRUE.

3. Two Types of Narratives
PERSONAL NARRATIVE
IMPERSONAL NARRATIVE
A personal narrative is told from a first-person perspective about something that actually happened to you. The writer actually experienced this story.
An impersonal narrative is told from a third-person perspective about something that happened to someone else. The writer is simply a narrator.

4. Don’t Get Confused! It might be easy to confuse an impersonal narrative with a biography, so here’s how you can tell the difference:
BIOGRAPHY:
NARRATIVE:
A biography or autobiography tells a person’s entire life story.
A narrative, personal or impersonal, tells the story of one SPECIFIC, SIGNIFICANT event the person experienced.

5. Keep In Mind:
Even though narratives are almost always non-fiction, authors usually want them to be entertaining as well. This means that sometimes they might exaggerate or embellish on the facts a little to increase their readers’ interest.

6. First Narrative “Baseball” by Lionel G. Garcia
Read “Baseball” independently
What kind of narrative is this?
Why do you think Mr. Garcia wrote this narrative?
Why is this narrative interesting to us as readers?

7. Second Narrative
“Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad” by Ann Petry
What type of narrative is this?
What do you already know about the Underground Railroad?
What do you already know about Harriet Tubman?
Why do you think we should read this narrative?

8. The Underground Railroad

9. Slave State vs. Free States