Writing Personal Narratives

Writers use _____________ -they they saw, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted. 

• sensory details
• main ideas
• pictures
• mood

Your personal narrative must have included a _______________, ______________, and an ______________. 

• main idea, theme, conclusion
• beginning, middle, end
• problem, story, senses.
• beginning, authors purpose, resolution

flash of lights in the night sky-
is an example of which sensory detail?

• sound
• sight
• touch 
• taste

_{What kind of essay did we just finish writing?} 

• Argumentative 
• Persuasive 
• Narrative 
• Informative

A personal narrative should be about an important...

• event in history
• a song that you like
• time in your life
• your family's memories

What is the point of view that a personal narrative uses?

• 3rd person view
• bird's eye view
  bird's eye view
• 1st person view
• narrator's view

Your personal narrative must have included a _______________, ______________, and an ______________. 

• main idea, theme, conclusion
• beginning, middle, end
• problem, story, senses.
• beginning, authors purpose, resolution

Your personal narrative must have included sensory details.
True or False? 

• True
• False

A personal narrative uses words like...

• he, she, them, they
• I, me, my mine, myself

A personal narrative should not show any of your emotions.

• True
• False