1. What is a Narrative?

2. What is a narrative?
❏ A NARRATIVE is a story made up of real or imagined experiences.
A fictional narrative is a made up story.
A personal narrative is an account of events from your life.

3. Writing a narrative Your narrative will need to include:
❏ Introduction, 3 body paragraphs, conclusion
❏ Plot
❏ Point of view
Later, we will learn about:
Titles
Hook
Voice
Character Development
Word choice and sensory details

4. Narrative Elements - Plot
❏ Plot -- the events that make up the storyline.
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Conclusion

5. Plot - Exposition
❏ Introduces background information about events, settings, characters, etc., to the audience or reader.
❏ Introduces problem or event that sets central action into motion. (conflict)

6. Plot - exposition (Characters)
❏ Character -- a person depicted in a work of fiction.
Protagonist -- the leading character or one of the major
characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
Antagonist -- a person who actively opposes or is hostile to
someone or something; an adversary.

7. Plot – exposition (Setting)
❏ Setting -- the time and place a story is set.
When -- What time does the story take place (hour of
the day, day of the week, year, time period, season, etc.)?
Where -- At what location does the story take place?

8. Plot - exposition (Conflict)
❏ Conflict -- a literary element that involves a struggle or problem between two opposing forces.
External -- a struggle between a character and an outside force
Person vs. Person
Person vs. Society
Person vs. Nature
Internal -- a struggle happening within a character’s own mind.
Person vs. Self

9. Plot – Rising Action
❏ A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

10. Plot - Climax
❏ The turning point in a narrative that changes the expected outcome.

11. Plot – Falling Action
❏ Events that begin tying up loose ends as the plot nears the end.

12. Plot - Resolution
❏ The final outcome of your narrative in which the conflict
has been resolved.

13. Point of view
❏ Point of View -- the narrator’s position in relation to the story being told.
1st person -- the narrator is in the story
(Ex.: I woke up that morning and wanted to buy some ice cream.)
3rd person -- the narrator is an outsider telling the story
(Ex.: He woke up that morning and wanted to buy some ice cream.)

14. Narrative writing process
❏ Prewriting
Think about what you want to write about
Develop your characters, plot, setting, and conflict
Complete an outline or storyboard for your narrative

15. Narrative writing process
❏ Drafting
Write down your ideas
Create a working draft (a draft this is in progress)

16. Narrative writing process
❏ Revising
Read your working draft aloud.
Have others read your draft.
Make necessary changes.

17. Narrative writing process
❏ Editing
Review all of your draft’s feedback
Rewrite and change your draft as you see fit
Re-read your revised draft Aloud

18. Narrative Writing process
❏ Publishing
Type and submit your final draft!