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The document outlines the principles of narrative writing, distinguishing between fictional narratives and personal narratives. It provides guidelines on engaging readers, structuring events, using dialogue, and incorporating descriptive details and transitions. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of a well-crafted conclusion that reflects on the narrated experiences.

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Narrative Writing - Prophet

The document outlines the principles of narrative writing, distinguishing between fictional narratives and personal narratives. It provides guidelines on engaging readers, structuring events, using dialogue, and incorporating descriptive details and transitions. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of a well-crafted conclusion that reflects on the narrated experiences.

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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.
LESSON
STANDARD
ELAGSE9- 10W3: Write narratives to develop real or
imagined experiences or events using effective
technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-
structured event sequences.

a. Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a
narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.

b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences,
events, and/or characters.

c. Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts
from one time frame or setting to another.

d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture
the action and convey experiences and events.

e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
How do I use narrative
techniques, descriptive
details, and well-structured
event sequences to write
narratives?
a. Engage and orient the reader by
establishing a context and point of
view and introducing a narrator
and/or characters; organize an event
sequence that unfolds naturally and
logically.
Order
Beginning:
Introduce characters and setting (time and place)

Middle:
Events happen/conflicts (Rising Action)
Use descriptive details
Keep the events progressing forward
End:
Result (Falling Action)
Resolution
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.
Third Person Omniscient: The narrator knows the thoughts
of all characters. You see the story from many perspectives.
b. Use narrative techniques, such as
dialogue, pacing, and description, to
develop experiences, events, and/or
characters.
Dialogue
Indent for each new speaker.
Use quotation marks.
Use commas inside the quotation marks, then
who said the words.
“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.
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).
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.”
NARRATIVE VOCABULARY

When you are telling your story, you


may want to use techniques such as:

• Flashback: Go back in time to explain


an event or feeling
• Foreshadowing: Hints to future
events
c. Use a variety of transition words,
phrases, and clauses to convey
sequence and signal shifts from one
time frame or setting to another.
Use Transitions:
Transitions:
◦ show how ideas, sentences, and
paragraphs are connected.
◦ communicate the organization of your
writing
◦ are stepping stones that help the reader
get from one idea to the next.
Common
Transitions
Transitions run the gamut to more complex signals that
from the most simple — the ideas are somehow
little conjunctions: connected — the
conjunctive adverbs and
o
and, transitional expressions such
o
but, as
o
nor, o
however,
o
yet, o
moreover,
o
or, o
nevertheless,
o
(and sometimes) so — o
on the other hand .
d. Use precise words and phrases,
relevant descriptive details, and
sensory language to capture the
action and convey experiences and
events.
DESCRIPTIVE DETAILS
INCLUDE:
• Adjectives: Describe nouns
• Adverbs: Tell when, where, or how
something is done or to what degree
• Sensory language: Appeals to the
senses: What do you see, hear, feel,
taste, smell?
Figurative Language
• Idiom: Piece of cake
• Personification: The wind was screaming…
• Simile: She was like a tiger on the court.
• Metaphor: She was a tiger…
• Hyperbole: I am so hungry I could eat a
horse.
• Alliteration: Billy Bob bought a bright blue
BMW.
Find examples of descriptive
details and figurative language
in the story “Three Skeleton
Key.”
DISCUSS WHAT THESE DETAILS ADD TO
THE STORY.
Look at the following from a
survival story:

Which example is more appealing?


Rescuers say the group survived even though it was cold
outside.
Rescuers say that a series of good choices enabled the
group to survive without frostbite or injuries, despite
temperatures which dropped to 21 degrees below zero.

What descriptive details do you notice? What do the


descriptive details add?
e. Provide a conclusion that follows
from and reflects on the narrated

experiences or events.
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!
Use proper grammar, spelling and
capitalization.

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