Lessons on Writing a Personal Narrative
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English
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10th Grade
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Hard
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
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
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
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
Think and write: what can this child be saying? To whom? Create an interesting, fun, or intense dialogue.
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Techiques, Tips, & Tricks
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