NARRATIVEPersonal and story writing

NARRATIVE WRITINGA 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.

ORDERBeginning: Introduce characters, placeMiddle: 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)

NARRATIVE WRITINGTell 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.

DIALOGUEIndent for each new speaker.Use quotation marks. Use commas inside the quotation marks, then who said the words.

“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.

BACK AND FORTH CONVERSATION “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).

CONTINUED TALKINGNo 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.”

NARRATIVE VOCABULARY

Cause and effect: Do something, something happens

Chronological order: Events go in order of TIME

NARRATIVE VOCABULARYFlashback: Go back in time to explain an event or feeling

Foreshadowing: Hints to future events

Adjectives: Describe nounsSensory language: See, hear, feel, taste, smell

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Idiom: Piece of cakePersonification: The wind was screaming…

Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGESimile: 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.

POINT OF VIEWFirst 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.

POINT OF VIEW

Third Person Omniscient:The narrator knows the thoughts of all characters. You see the story from many perspectives.

SURVIVAL NARRATIVE DICE STORY

LOST CHARACTER YOU HAVE NO____

In a forest Doctor Water

At sea Kid Food

In a mall Police Officer Boat

In a desert Teacher Way to make a fire

In Alaska U.S. Marine Flares

FREE CHOICE FREE CHOICE FREE CHOICE

SURVIVAL IN THE WILDERNESS NARRATIVE RUBRIC RUBRIC Use all three sentences: 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 1 ½ pages type- FINAL COPY• 14” font- double spaced • Chronological Order • Conversations