1. Using Narrative
Techniques

2. WORD CHOICE Show don’t tell I was sad I was hungry
My eyes were filled with tears.
I was hungry
My stomach was rumbling like thunder.

4. WORD CHOICE- SHOW DON’T TELL
The use of vivid verbs, adjectives, adverbs in narrative writing serves to enhance the mood and bring the reader into your memoir.
Verb – action word ( scowled )
Adjective – descriptive word ( scruffy )
Adverb – tells you how a verb is done or to what extent ( harshly, incredibly )
   

5. WORD CHOICE- SHOW DON’T TELL
Finding the right verbs, adjectives and adverbs to put into your memoir IS CRITICAL!
Dead and boring words will lose your reader and put them to sleep…
Said go
See jump
move put
Laugh Jump
   

6. WORD CHOICE- SHOW DON’T TELL
Vivid word choices will make your memoir come alive !
ate or devoured
pushed or rammed
not hurt or pummeled
not fast or streaked
   

7. WORD CHOICE- SHOW DON’T TELL

8. WORD CHOICE- SHOW DON’T TELL
Let’s see what we’ve got.. enhance these boring sentences with your table.
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Sammy went across the icy pond.
The girls laughed as they rushed to dance class.
Miss Thomas said, “don’t do that.”
Tyler ate lunch, barely stopping to breathe in between bites.

9. FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE

10. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN OTHER WORDS
  Much like strong word choice the use of figurative language in narrative writing serves to enhance the mood and bring the reader into your memoir.
IN OTHER WORDS
Figurative language forms images in readers’ minds, showing them what something is like instead of just telling them
   

11. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - IMAGERY  
   
The cold of late December blue against my skin as I walked up to my family’s festive house for our family dinner.

12. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - IMAGERY
 Read the following two stories and think about what makes them different.
   

13. STORY 1
Toby was lost. He must have wandered off from his family during their morning hike because around noon he realized that he was all alone in the middle of the woods. He wasn’t frightened exactly, but he was definitely anxious to find his family before evening. The thought of spending a night in the woods alone was a scary one. Heaving a sigh, Toby walked on.
   

14. STORY 2 that covered the ground like a soft brown blanket.
 Toby was totally lost. He must have wandered off from his family during their morning hike because around noon he realized that he was alone in the middle of the wide whispering woods. Thonk! Thunk! went his feet on the soft pine needles
that covered the ground like a soft brown blanket.
Birds twittered and tweeted from the sky-scraping
branches of trees, but there was no sound of his
family.
   

15. STORY 2 anxious as a fish out of water to find his family
 He wasn’t frightened exactly, but he was as
anxious as a fish out of water to find his family
before evening. The thought of spending a night in
the woods alone was one that made his heart dance a fearful frenzied jig in his chest. Heaving a sigh, Toby tiredly trudged on.
   

16. Dirk The Protector Assignment
CLOSE READ “ Dirk the Protector “ and follow the directions on the worksheet.