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 It tells a story about a specific event or experience  Includes all the key events of a story  Uses descriptive and sensory information  Uses a single point of view

 Provides an organizing focus/idea  Significant event  Significant experience  Significant relationship

 Get the reader engaged  Use sensory details  Engage the five senses: taste, smell, sight, sound, touch  Scenery, season, scents, dialogue, etc  Use figurative language  Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, etc.

 If you’re telling a story it should be in chronological order  AKA: Time Order  Put the events in the order in which they occurred

 Every detail used refers back to the main focus of the paper  Stay on topic!

 If it starts in past tense, it should end in past tense  You decide the tense…BUT…then you have to stick with it!

 Helps the reader follow the sequence of action  Possible examples: After a short timeAfterwardsAs long asAs soon as At lastAt lengthAt that timeAt the same time BeforeEarlierOf lateImmediately In the meantimeIn the pastLatelyLater MeanwhileNowPresentlyShortly SinceSoonTemporarilyThen ThereuponUntilWhenWhile

What happens just after the story ends? Does Billy realize the danger he faces? If he does, is it too late, or does he escape? Write a narrative that describe Billy’s and the landlady’s fate.

1. Make a list of three possible ways the story could have ended. 2. For each ending, find at least 3 ways this could have been accomplished 3. Decide which ending you would like to write about