W1Ab: Follow a writing process to generate a draft. Drafting a Narrative How can I use narrative to help solve problems?

What I will be able to do… I can, when appropriate for my purpose, write a narrative for a specific audience with a clear point of view, complex ideas, freshness of thought, effective transitions and an organized sequence of events.

Before you leave today… You will generate a draft of a narrative related to your topic for the multi-genre piece.

How can I use narrative to help solve problems? When do people share stories with each other? What purpose do stories serve in our society? Why is story telling so powerful? What basic elements do we know are in all stories?

Take out your NOTES! A fancy word for story-telling is narrative. A story is a narration. The voice of the narrator is the voice of the story teller. Narratives follow chronological order with the exception of flashbacks (when the author goes back in time to share something that happened). Chronological order means “time order” or the sequence in which events occurred in time. Chronos-time . We use transitions to help our reader follow this sequence.

More Notes! We use “point of view” to talk about the perspective from which the story is being told. This can be first person (where the story teller is a character in the story) or third person (where the story teller is someone outside the story). When the narrator is outside the story, he or she can have a limited point of view, in which he/she knows only the thoughts and feelings of one character, or an omniscient point of view, in which he/she knows what each of the characters is thinking and feeling. An author’s point of view should be clear and consistent.

Closure: Within table groups, share a quick summary of your narrative and the theme which you are attempting to convey to your readers.