1. Personal Narrative

2. What makes a fiction story interesting?
Write a paragraph answering the above question.
When the person across from you is finished, use ping pong to share your ideas.
As a pair, generate a list of 3 things that are most important to make a fiction story interesting.
Write your list on the board. If your item is already on the board, put a star next to it.

3. Essential Questions
What are the components of good personal narratives?
How does the intended audience affect your writing?

4. Purpose and audience What is the purpose of your personal narrative?
Who is your audience?

5. Evaluating Personal Narratives
Read both personal narratives:
sample 1
sample 2
Create a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the two narratives.
List aspects of each story that you enjoyed, and aspects of each story that could be improved.
With a partner, create a list of characteristics of a good personal narrative.

6. Brainstorm
List events that have happened in your life

7. Narrowing your topic
Which 3 topics are most interesting for your audience?
Do you have vivid memories of the event? Do you remember sounds, smells, sights, tastes, and textures?
Which topic is easiest and most interesting for you to write about?

8. Pre-Writing
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?

9. Pre-Writing
Thesis
Events in order

10. Rough Draft Introduction: Start with an engaging hook.
Use your natural voice—write like you are talking to a friend
Use first person
Establish the context by including details about time and place
Body
Develop a logical event solution. Include transition words, phrases, and clauses
Use sensory language to help readers experience the action
Include your reflections, thoughts, and feelings, as the events unfold
Use effective pacing to keep events moving smoothly in your narrative
Conclusion
Provide a conclusion that reveals why the experience is meaningful to you
Reflect on your experience and how what you learned might apply to reader’s lives

11. Revising
Yes or No
Does my introduction engage readers and set the scene?
Are the events in chronological order?
Are the details describing people, places, and events relevant and precise?
Does the pacing keep events moving smoothly?
Have I included my reflections about events in the narrative?
Does my conclusion reveal why the experience was meaningful?

12. Grammar
Run-on sentences

13. Editing
Yes or No
Capital Letters
Agreement
Punctuation
Spelling

14. Essential Questions
What are the components of good personal narratives?
How does the intended audience affect your writing?