Transcript Personal Narrative

Personal Narrative
Unit 1
W3
W5
Personal Narrative
• a story about you
(NOT an autobiography)
Write with a purpose
• Development
sad
funny
meaningful experience **
happy
scary
well-chosen details
most important
most exciting
dialogue & description
significance of experience **
conclusion
What are you willing to write about?
ideas
• Skydiving
learned about taking risks to challenge
myself & have the experience
• Look at your 3 personal narrative ideas.
Think about the significance of each.
Write the significance beside each idea.
Write with a purpose
• Organization
logical sequence
pacing
• Language
first-person POV
precise & descriptive (sensory) language
• Audience
teacher & classmates
Examples
http://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/nsmedia/ebook_gr9/write_smart/WriteSmart.html?moduleIndex=1&subSection=1
• Strong example
• Weak example
• comparison
Strong personal narrative model
Strong personal narrative model
Strong personal narrative model
Weak personal narrative model
Weak personal narrative model
Write with a purpose
• Development
sad
funny
meaningful experience **
happy
scary
well-chosen details
most important
most exciting
dialogue & description
significance of experience **
conclusion
What are you willing to write about?
Prewriting
experience
event1
event 2
event 3
event 4
event 5
significance
Setting
sound
sight
taste
touch
Assignment
• Step 1:
decide on topic
• Step 2:
complete prewriting graphic organizer on notebook paper
• Step 3:
begin FIRST draft of personal narrative on another piece of
notebook paper
think about your purpose
use p.177 & 179 as guides to first draft process
ok to make revisions on draft