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Writing Personal Narrative

Writing Personal Narrative

Assessment

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English

10th Grade

Hard

Created by

Joseph Anderson

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7 Slides • 5 Questions

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Writing a Personal Narrative

Techiques, Tips, & Tricks

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Our writing Mantra: SHOW AND DON'T TELL

Discussing key element to writing a powerful narrative

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Writing techniques to accomplish our goal

  • Vivid descriptions

  • Zoom in specific moments

  • Raw emotion

  • Dialogue

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Vivid description

Imagine you are this red panda laying on a branch. Describe the setting using the 5 senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch).

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Open Ended

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Vivid description: Imagine you are this red panda laying on a branch. Describe the setting using the 5 senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch).

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Zoom in on a moment

Pieces of your story are more significant or interesting than other elements of your story. Exercise: Select one object in this picture and add more detail and description to it.

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Open Ended

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Exercise: Select one object in this picture and add more detail and description to those parts.

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Emotion

Readers want to feel a connection to what you felt.


Describe how the woman in the photo really feels (use adjectives)

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Open Ended

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Describe how the woman in the photo really feels (use adjectives)

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Dialogue

Character dialogue adds excitement.


Think and write: what can this child be saying? To whom?

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Open Ended

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Think and write: what can this child be saying? To whom? Create an interesting, fun, or intense dialogue.

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Poll

After practicing these writing skills, I feel totally ready and confident to write my personal narrative

Writing a Personal Narrative

Techiques, Tips, & Tricks

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