1. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE
STANDARDS
1) Narrates a sequence of events and communicates their significance to the audience.
Paraphrase?
Tell about a time in clear order
 LOGICAL?
2. Portray the importance of it.
How?
- Select topic: break up into A, B, C.

2. 2) Reveals elements of the character’s traits through specific actions, speech, movements, gestures, thoughts, and/or feelings (including dialogue and interior monologue).
ACTIONS
SPEECH
MOVEMENTS+GESTURES
THOUGHTS+FEELINGS
*DIALOGUE (“Make up logical quotes”)
*INTERIOR MONOLOGUE (italicize)

3. List the 5 senses. Write down phrases from the Gary Paulsen excerpt.
SIGHT:
SOUND:
TASTE:
TOUCH:
SMELL:

4. Sensory Language in Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
There was a great wrenching as the wings caught the pines at the side of the clearing and broke back, ripping back just outside the main braces. Dust and dirt blew off the floor into his face so hard he thought there must have been some kind of explosion. He was momentarily blinded and slammed forward in the seat, smashing his head on the wheel.

5. Choose: “PARK” or “SCHOOL”
SIGHT:
SOUND:
TASTE:
TOUCH:
SMELL:

6. STAND and SHARE Read your favorite sensory detail (your essay).
Next? Listen + decide which sense was portrayed.
Read your favorite line (don’t repeat the same sense).

7. Senses: sight, taste, touch, hear, smell
3) Describes the setting with vivid sensory details that highlight the controlling impression of the experience.
Senses: sight, taste, touch, hear, smell
Fix: (Show, don’t tell! Be descriptive)
I moved to Mexico City.
-Traveling to the land of Tia’s famous tamales,…
We did not have much food.
It was loud in the forest.

8. Classwork: Go back and ADD: REMINDER: 3+ SAT words (highlight)
sensory details
Dialogue (use quotation marks)
inner thoughts (italicized)
REMINDER: 3+ SAT words (highlight)
Highlight controlling impression / thesis (hint at the significance of your event).