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NARRATIVE paragraph
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Read the following narrative paragraph and complete the chart with the information from the paragraph.
My First Time In The Emergency Room I went to the Emergency Room for the first time when I was thirteen years old. It all came about when I was skateboarding in front of my grandma's house and I tried to do a trick. I almost pulled it of, but I messed it up in the end and headed to the ground with my hands down. My right wrist was twisted the wrong way in the air when I landed hard on the ground. It just broke. At first it did not hurt at all, but when I looked down at my warped and twisted wrist, all of a sudden excruciating pain rushed through my wrist and I came unglued. Rolling around on the ground yelling and cussing in pain, my parents saw what happened and came running to my aid. My dad started moving it around saying, "it's not broken," as my mom was saying over and over again we need to go to the emergency room to get the real diagnosis. After about fifteen minutes of yelling and screaming, I finally got up and held my wrist as I walked to the car. The whole way to the ER the pain got worse and worse. Later I found out the increase in pain was due to massive swelling against the broken bone. I had to sit in the waiting room for almost an hour, which felt like forever. After waiting impatiently, I finally got into the doctor's office where I got an X-Ray and found out my wrist was truly broken.
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3. Complete the chart with the information from the paragraph.
Title
Time and place the story takes place
Characters 
Problem/conflict
The end
Type of the story (mystery, fantasy, humourous or adventure)
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Use the given prompts to write a narrative paragraph. Be sure to use the correct past tenses and the sequencing words in your paragraph.
A suitable title:
Where/When (the setting): Home, school
Who (the main characters): Me, security guard
The problem or conflict: Being late for the English exam
In the middle of my story:
1st major event: fall asleep last Monday, wake up at 9:30, get into panicked, have English exam at 10:00
2nd major event: get dressed, take a taxi to school
3rd major event: crash into another taxi, drivers fight, lose time
4th major event: Arrive at school, no one is around, talk to the security guard
At the end of my story:
The result: The security guard tell me it is Sunday!
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Work in pairs. Exchange your paragraph with your partner and evaluate each other’s paragraphs based on the following checklist:
Narrative Paragraph Revision Checklist
Does the paragraph have a clear main idea?
Have you told the actions in order, from first to last?
Have you included only important actions?
Have you used sequencing words to help smooth out the action?
Does each sentence begin with a capital letter and end with the correct punctuation mark?
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Choose one of the suggested topics below and write a narrative paragraph. Revise your paragraph by using the checklist above. Rewrite your paragraph and improve it.
An embarrassing experience
Your first day at university
A memorable moment of success
A frightening or dangerous experience
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Choose one of the suggested topics below and write narrative paragraph. Revise your paragraph by using the checklist above. Rewrite your paragraph and improve it.
Be sure you include the following components in to your paragraph.
A suitable title
The setting/where and when
The characters
The problem
Main events
The end
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References
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