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What Do You Remember? Introducing Nonfiction Narration Chapter 5 • Nonfiction Narration What Do You Remember? Using vivid details to describe your memories will make them more interesting to others. Think about one of your favorite memories. Consider these questions as you participate in an extended discussion with a partner. Take turns expressing your ideas and feelings. What happened? Where were you? Who was there? How did you feel during the experience? What did you see, smell, touch, feel, and hear during the experience? Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Choose and Narrow Your Topic Chapter 5 • Nonfiction Narration Choose and Narrow Your Topic Narrowing your topic will help ensure that your personal narrative has a clearly defined focus, or main point. Use a graphic organizer like the one shown to narrow your topic. Record your general topic—your broadest story idea—in the top box; then narrow your topic as you move down the chart. Your final box should hold your narrowest story idea, the new focus of your personal narrative. My interests I enjoy sports I love playing soccer When I played soccer in the championship game, I got hurt, but we won anyway. Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Plan Your Piece Chapter 5 • Nonfiction Narration You will use a graphic organizer like the one shown to identify your characters and setting, and to organize your story’s plot details. When it is complete, you will be ready to write your first draft. Characters: Me and my teammates Setting: The championship game at Hart Stadium Beginning (Introduce the problem.) Middle I got hurt just after halftime when somebody accidentally kicked my leg instead of the ball. (Tell how the problem got worse.) End (Tell how the problem was resolved and why events were important.) Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

The Organization of a Personal Narrative Chapter 5 • Nonfiction Narration The Organization of a Personal Narrative Grab Your Reader Interesting opening • Introduce focus, or main idea Develop Your Plot Sequence of events in chronological order, or time order • Development of interesting plot, setting, and characters • Narrative devices, including suspense and dialogue • Details that appeal to the senses of sight, touch, hearing, and smell Wrap It Up Resolution • Ending that reflects the focus Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Revising: Making It Better Chapter 5 • Nonfiction Narration Revising: Making It Better Now that you have finished your first draft, you are ready to revise. You can use the Revision RADaR strategy as a guide for making changes to improve your draft. Remember—you can use the steps in Revision RADaR in any order. Revision RADaR Replace . . . Words that are not specific are overused Sentences that are unclear Add . . . New information Descriptive adjectives and adverbs Rhetorical or literary devices Delete . . . Unrelated ideas Sentences that sound good, but do not make sense Repeated words or phrases Unnecessary details Reorder . . . So most important points are last To make better sense or to flow better So details support main ideas Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Fine-Tune Your Draft Chapter 5 • Nonfiction Narration Use the revision suggestions to prepare your final draft after rethinking how well questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been addressed. Ensure Sentence Variety Raise the interest level by including both long, compound sentences with two main clauses with their own subjects and verbs and short, simple sentences with only one clause. Clarify Meaning Add words and phrases that clarify meaning by adding transition words that show the sequence of events and the relationship among them, such as first, later, and on the other hand. Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Making It Correct Chapter 5 • Nonfiction Narration When you edit your work, you polish your writing and correct errors. Before you edit, make sure that you have used a consistent verb tense, and have not included multiple verb tenses without a reason. Look at these lines from Roomates: Most of my clothes were in a pile on the floor of my closet. I was digging through the pile, sniffing for one that was not too smelly. In the first sentence, the verb were is the past tense of the verb are. The verb was digging in the second sentence is a little more unusual. A progressive tense verb shows that an action is or was happening for a period of time. Progressive tense verbs consist of a form of the helping verb be, such as is, are, was, or were, with the present participle of the main verb, which ends in -ing. The past progressive tense “was digging” shows the action the author was completing for a period of time. Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Grammar Mini-Lesson: Consistent Tenses Chapter 5 • Nonfiction Narration Grammar Mini-Lesson: Consistent Tenses Usually, you should use one verb tense for consistency. Sometimes, though, you must change tense to show the sequence of events. For example, a writer may use the past tense when the narrator discusses events, but change to the present tense when characters speak in dialogue. Consistent verb tense is especially important in sentences that have more than one action and more than one clause. “She went to Africa, and she will go to India.” Rewrite these sentences so that they use verb tenses consistently, and shift tenses only to make the sequence clear. Write the answers in your journal. 1. Lightning frightens me, but it’s thunder that scared my dog! 2. Bowling sounds like a fun activity for the birthday party, but we went last week. Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

Publish Your Piece Chapter 5 • Nonfiction Narration Share your experiences by publishing your personal narrative. Use this chart to identify a way to publish your personal narrative for the appropriate audiences. Classmates and teachers at school Reading it aloud • Submitting it to the school newspaper or Web site People in your town or around the world that you may never meet Posting it to a blog for people who share your interests • Submitting it to a print or online magazine that publishes first-person, true-life accounts Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.