1. N ARRATIVE Personal and story writing

2. NARRATIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj-eh5VFsg0

3. 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.

4. O RDER Beginning: Introduce characters, place Middle: Events happen (Rising Action) Use details Keep the events progressing forward (No two pages on how the dude made a sandwich). End: Result (Falling Action)

5. 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! Still proper grammar, spelling and capitalization.

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

7. “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.

8. 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).

9. 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.”

10. N ARRATIVE V OCABULARY Cause and effect: Do something, something happens Chronological order: Events go in order of TIME

11. Flashback: Go back in time to explain an event or feeling Foreshadowing: Hints to future events Adjectives: Describe nouns Sensory language: See, hear, feel, taste, smell

12. F IGURATIVE L ANGUAGE Idiom: Piece of cake Personification: The wind was screaming… Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp

13. F IGURATIVE L ANGUAGE Simile: She was like a tiger on the court. Metaphor: She was a tiger… Hyperbole: I am so hungry I could eat a horse. I am so tired I could die. Alliteration: Billy Bob bought a bright blue BMW.

14. 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.

15. P OINT OF VIEW Third Person Omniscient: The narrator knows the thoughts of all characters. You see the story from many perspectives.

16. C HARACTER T RAITS CLASS COPY Read through with partner Think of fav. Fictional character Fav book, movie, TV show Follow the flow chart and diagrams Copy and complete them in your NB: writing section

17. “H OME R UN ” Read the poem Analyze how the moment gets slowed down Answer the questions in your NB: writing section

18. G ROUP WORK You will be working in groups and analyzing 4 different personal narratives For each of the narratives you must use SOAPSTone “We’re Poor” “Salvation” “Frank Sinatra’s Gum” “The Death of a Moth”

19. “M Y D ECISION AT D AIRY Q UEEN ”

20. P ERSONAL N ARRATIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWHc5Yar6Ps What is an important lesson you learned?