Narrative writing

1. NARRATIVE
Personal and story writing

2. NARRATIVE
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj-eh5VFsg0

3. NARRATIVE WRITING
A 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.

4. ORDER
Beginning:
Introduce characters, place
Middle:
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)

5. NARRATIVE WRITING
Tell 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.

6. DIALOGUE
Indent for each new speaker.
Use quotation marks.
Use commas inside the quotation
marks, then who said the words.

7. “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.

8. 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).

9. CONTINUED TALKING
No 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.”

10. NARRATIVE VOCABULARY
Cause and effect: Do
something, something
happens
Chronological order: Events
go in order of TIME

11. NARRATIVE VOCABULARY
Flashback: Go back in time to explain
an event or feeling
Foreshadowing: Hints to future
events
Adjectives: Describe nouns
Sensory language: See, hear, feel,
taste, smell

12. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Idiom: Piece of cake
Personification: The wind was
screaming…
Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp

13. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Simile: 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.

14. POINT OF VIEW
First 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.

15. POINT OF VIEW
Third Person Omniscient:
The narrator knows the thoughts of all
characters. You see the story from
many perspectives.

16. CHARACTER TRAITS
 CLASS COPY
 Read through with partner
 Think of fav. Fictional character
 Fav book, movie, TV show
 Follow the flow chart and diagrams
 Copy and complete them in your
NB: writing section

17. “HOME RUN”
 Read the poem
 Analyze how the moment gets slowed down
 Answer the questions in your NB: writing section

18. GROUP WORK
 You will be working in groups and analyzing 4
different personal narratives
 For each of the narratives you must use
SOAPSTone
 “We’re Poor”
 “Salvation”
 “Frank Sinatra’s Gum”
 “The Death of a Moth”

19. “MY DECISION AT DAIRY QUEEN”

20. PERSONAL NARRATIVE
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWHc5Yar6Ps
 What is an important lesson you learned?