Bell Work – 8/17/16 Choose one of the goals you stated in your bell work from yesterday. Create a three-step plan to achieve that goal.

Issue Textbooks When I call your name, please come up to sign for your textbook. You may leave your book in the room when there is no work you need to complete at home using the text. But if you take it home, you MUST bring it to class every day.

The big 3 Narrative Writing Expository/Informative Writing Argumentative Writing

Narrative Writing Used when reporting about an event or an incident, describing an experience, or telling a story. Often found in newspapers, magazines, and editorials. Uses sensory details (what you see, taste, smell, hear, feel) to paint a vivid picture for the reader.

Expository Writing Also known as informative writing. Can take the form of a how-to manual or other form of instruction, an explanation of a process or information. You are simply informing the reader about a particular subject.

Argumentative Writing The writer attempts to convince readers to agree with an opinion. An essential part of a formal persuasive essay is a balanced discussion of an opposing viewpoint. The piece consists of the writer’s argument in favor or in criticism of a position.

closer look at narrative writing Rule One: Know your audience. In story telling, your listener or your reader is the most important person. Your story would shift dramatically were you writing a narrative for an uptight English teacher who will give you a grade, for a group of young children in a summer camp setting, or for your classmates held captive by the bell schedule. Vary word choice, images and action in a manner appropriate for your audience.

closer look at narrative writing Rule Two: Have a story in mind. This means you have a character in a setting with a problem and a resolution. Sometimes narratives can be fragments of stories; glimpses of experience. Still these bits of life must compel your listener to listen. They inform and enlighten when they show a life being lived. The best of them leave your readers with something for themselves: a lesson, an idea, or an image.

closer look at narrative writing Rule Three: Describe. You must show rather than tell the story. Use words to create sensory images of the experience you are relating so that your reader can hear the scrape at the window, feel the hammer on the thumb, smell the locker room, taste the fried termites, see the just-born bird. Which has more impact: “Ralph is mean” or “Ralph likes to stomp little kittens to death with his size 14-D steel-toed boots?" Details are everything. They provoke the empathic reaction.

Boring versus juiced up What was different about the two passages? Which one evoked more of an emotional response from its readers? Why did it create more of an emotional response? What ways can you make any story better?

Your personal Narrative Now that we have read two versions of the same story, it is your turn to create your own personal narrative. Select a significant event or time in your life that impacted you in some way. Relay the story to your reader (me). Remember, don’t just tell me the story – SHOW ME. Your story must be a page in length and you must use sensory details 

Exit ticket What are the three rules to narrative writing?