Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools Personal Narratives True Stories That Have Really Happened to You (At Least You Witnessed It)

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Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools Personal Narratives True Stories That Have Really Happened to You (At Least You Witnessed It)

Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools Only One Event: Think of a Time When You Felt: Tickled Embarrassed Sad Angry Disappointed Proud Nervous Scared

Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools Impatient Irritated Miserable Helpful Smart Silly Injured One Event (cont.)

Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools Insight: Life Lesson Learned Reflect back on the event Think about what you learned at the time from having the experience OR look back and learn from it now Share your life lesson with your audience in a subtle way

Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools Details to Include: (Only the Ones that Made you Feel ____) See Hear Smell Taste Touch

Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools Details to Include: (The Ones that SHOWED you Felt _____) Dialogue Action Thoughts

Slow Motion Parts Find the part in you personal narrative that would be put in slow motion if this were a movie Slow that part down with a snapshot so the audience can fully experience the most important moment(s) in your narrative Use a lot of description, sensory detail, action…

Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools Fast-Forwarding: Transitions Don’t tell a bed-to-bed story Leave out the boring parts that readers would skip over Move the reader along with transitions so she never gets lost Transitions can be accomplished with dialogue, thoughts, actions…

Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools Organization Lead: Get the readers’ attention and get readers on the right track with Dialogue/Thoughts/Action Body: Make your audience feel the way you felt by reliving the experience (sensory details, dialogue, thoughts, action) Closing: Make it feel finished and include and check to make sure the reader sees the life lesson.