1. All You Need to Know About NarrativeWriting Personal and story writing

2. Narrative Writing  A Narrative is a STORY.  Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events.  Personal Narrative~ A TRUE story about an event that happened in your life.

3. Order  Beginning:  Introduce characters, place  Middle:  Events happen (Rising Action)  Use details  Keep the events progressing forward (No two pages on how the dude made a sandwich).  End:  Result (Falling Action)

4. Narrative Writing TTell a fictional story. WWrite the events in order. RRemember your plot diagrams. YYou can do flashbacks. PParagraphs should be a minimum of seven sentences. INDENT! UUse proper grammar, spelling and capitalization. VVary your sentence types.

5. Dialogue IIndent for each new speaker. UUse quotation marks when necessary. UUse commas inside the quotation marks, then who said the words. RRemember to limit the use of “slang” and or non-standard English in your writing.

6. Example of Dialogue: “Wow,” Jim said as he walked down the eerie hallway to his destination. “I can’t believe it!” “Hey, wait up!” Joe yelled, as he saw his friends shadow disappear around the corner. Blah, blah, blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, Blah,blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah. “Relax bro,” Jim retorted.

7. Back and Forth Conversation “Look at that,” Jim said. “I know,” whispered Joe. “How do you know?” “I just do.” “Yeah, right.” (You can stop using their names each time when they talk back and forth right away).

8. Continued Talking  No Capital letter if you continue after you write: I said or Joe said “Sir,” I said to the officer, “the kid just broke his arm.”

9. Narrative Vocabulary FFlashback: G o back in time to explain an event or feeling FForeshadowing: H ints to future events AAdjectives: D escribe nouns SSensory language: S ee, hear, feel, taste, smell CChronological order: E vents go in order of TIME

10. Figurative Language  Idiom: Piece of cake  Personification: The wind was screaming…  Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp

11. Figurative Language  Simile: She was like a tiger on the court.  Metaphor: She was a tiger…  Hyperbole: I am so hungry I could eat a horse. I am so tired I could die.  Alliteration: Billy Bob bought a bright blue BMW.

12. Point of View First Person: Character is the narrator. Use “I” and “we” Second Person: When the narrator puts the reader in place of the main character. Uses “you” Third Person Limited: Only see the perspective of one character.

13. Point of view Third Person Omniscient:  The narrator knows the thoughts of all characters. You see the story from many perspectives.

14. BALLAD  Write a Ballad about 7 th grade survival in the style of “The Cremation of Sam McGee.”  bal·lad  / ˈ bal ə d/  Noun  A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.  A slow sentimental or romantic song

15. The Cremation of Sam McGee  The poem is about a freezing-cold winter trip in the Yukon, back in the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. The poem’s speaker tells us a story about his friend, Sam McGee, who freezes to death on the trail.Klondike Gold Rush  Sam hates the cold and doesn’t want to be buried in the frozen ground. So, as his dying wish, he asks our speaker to cremate him (which is a fancy way of saying "burn his corpse"). The speaker promises he will, but it’s tough to find a way to do it in the dead of winter. He ends up having a lousy trip, carrying Sam’s frozen corpse until he finds a spot to burn Sam’s body.

16. Cremation of Sam McGee continued  He starts to burn Sam, but is pretty grossed out by the whole thing. Then, when he goes to see if Sam is "cooked," he finds his friend alive and well and cozy! Apparently Sam just needed to defrost a little, and the raging fire did the trick.