Personal Narrative Review

Personal Narrative Review

6A & 6C Writing

​Multiple Choice

• ​The first section of your test will be all multiple choice questions based on the reading we did Monday during class.

• ​Each question has only one correct answer.

• ​Practice these questions to help you study!

Multiple Choice

What should you NOT do in your conclusion?

• end your narrative in a way that makes your audience know it is complete

• relate a lesson that you learned from your experience

• introduce new information

• summarize your main points briefly

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the introduction?

• bring your essay to a logical and satisfying conclusion

• include events that are not important to the story

• introduce the narrator and catch your audience's attention

• include events that are not important to the story

Multiple Choice

Which definition BEST explains what a personal narrative is?

• an account of someone's life written by someone else

• a story that often tells events in time order

• a short story or novel that you read

• the account of a true incident that the writer expressed

Multiple Choice

When a character speaks out loud in a story, what is it called?

• author

• dialogue

• point of view

• narration

Multiple Choice

The ______ of your writing includes all relevant facts and details.

• body

• conclusion

• hook

• introduction

Multiple Choice

What gives readers clues to the order of events and signal shifts from one time frame to another?

• conclusion words

• dialogue

• introduction words

• transition words

Multiple Choice

The events in your personal narrative should be in what order?

• alphabetical order

• the order they actually occurred

• least interesting to most interesting

• most interesting to least interesting

Multiple Choice

A personal narrative should be written from this point of view:

• First-person

• Second-person

• Third-person

• Unbiased

Fill in the Blanks

It is important to consider your                 , the people who will read your personal narrative.

• ​On your test, you will have four personal narratives to read.

• ​You will be given three sentences for each one.

• ​You will determine which sentence is the

  • ​Introduction

  • ​Body

  • ​Concluding Statement

    • ​You will only use each choice ONCE per section.

​Personal Narrative Questions

Multiple Choice

Which sentence would be the best INTRODUCTION?

• Weavers learned how to twist its fibers into cloth, and shoemakers made shoes from its bark.

• It's no wonder with all these uses that the Egyptians valued papyrus 

• The whole life of ancient Egypt seemed to depend on the papyrus plant.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence would be the best CONCLUDING STATEMENT?

• I couldn't believe it when my dad pointed to our box seats behind the dugout on the third-base side?

• A stop at our favorite pizza restaurant on the way home was the perfect ending to my perfect day.

• It had started out being an ordinary Saturday, when all I wanted to do was sleep in.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence would be the best BODY?

• The butterflies are quiet, I've already made some new friends, and I know this will be the best school year ever.

• It was the night before my first day at middle school, and the butterflies in my stomach were in a flutter.

• I smiled as a friend from my last school sat down next to me.

Multiple Choice

Put the following personal narrative in order: 1) After three stories and two glasses of water, she finally gave in and took a nap. 2) With a crying toddler, milk spilled on the floor, and the doorbell ringing, I wondered if I would make it as a babysitter.  3) An exhausted but proud first-time babysitter, I beamed and said, "Everything's fine!" when the parents returned.

• 1, 2, 3

• 1, 3, 2

• 2, 1, 3

• 2, 3, 1

Multiple Select

How can I be successful on my test tomorrow?

• Review this Quizizz by going to Mr. Donoghue's Google Classroom page.

• Get a good night's sleep.

• Eat something before school and/or at lunch.

• Be confident in myself and my preparation!

Poll

This Quizizz was _____ for me.

• Easy

• OK

• Hard

​Homework Tonight

• ​Review the Quizizz.

• It will be posted on the stream of your 6A/6C Writing Google Classroom.

• ​This test is not open-note, so it is very important that you study.

• ​Have a great rest of your day, and good luck!